:00:00. > :00:07.sight to privilege? How can the Corbyn as possibly object?
:00:08. > :00:11.More than 1,900 offences of possessing indecent images
:00:12. > :00:14.of children have been recorded by Police Scotland in
:00:15. > :00:17.The NSPCC, which obtained the figures, is calling on internet
:00:18. > :00:21.companies to do more to tackle the problem and for greater
:00:22. > :00:29.Our home affairs correspondent, Reevel Alderson, reports.
:00:30. > :00:32.These are the images of some of the paedophiles convicted
:00:33. > :00:37.recently of possessing indecent images of children.
:00:38. > :00:42.PhD student James Hudson was jailed last June for 18 months.
:00:43. > :00:46.Police IT worker Barry Rankin had more than 300,000 indecent
:00:47. > :00:51.images on his computer and is serving five years.
:00:52. > :00:54.Paedophile David Logan was placed on the six offenders register
:00:55. > :00:58.for ten years at Dumbarton Sheriff Court.
:00:59. > :01:00.In the past three years Police Scotland has recorded more
:01:01. > :01:04.than 1900 offences of possessing indecent child images,
:01:05. > :01:06.that's well over the total for the Metropolitan Police,
:01:07. > :01:14.Last year saw a 17% rise in offences in Scotland compared to 2014.
:01:15. > :01:18.Police Scotland says it's because they are taking a proactive
:01:19. > :01:23.For the past three years Police Scotland have been committed
:01:24. > :01:26.to keeping children safe and part of that key priority has been
:01:27. > :01:30.to tackle the emerging national threat that we now recognise
:01:31. > :01:35.as being the threat of online child sexual abuse.
:01:36. > :01:39.Because of that it is indicative of the increase.
:01:40. > :01:43.Children's charities are calling on the digital industry to commit
:01:44. > :01:45.significant expertise and resources to prevent the publication
:01:46. > :01:52.We know that a lot of grooming and sharing of images takes place
:01:53. > :01:55.via social media and we think there is a lot more the industry
:01:56. > :02:04.could do to tackle this kind of offending via their platforms.
:02:05. > :02:07.A lot of the harmful images children come across come via social media
:02:08. > :02:10.and it's quite unregulated so we want the industry to step up
:02:11. > :02:13.to do more to make sure they are protecting children as much
:02:14. > :02:16.Earlier this year police seized computers in a major operation
:02:17. > :02:19.which led to 77 arrests and the recovery of 30
:02:20. > :02:23.The NSPCC which obtained today's figures through freedom
:02:24. > :02:26.of information said they clearly show a growing problem of people
:02:27. > :02:35.A conduct hearing has heard the social worker assigned
:02:36. > :02:37.to murdered toddler Liam Fee failed to take necessary steps
:02:38. > :02:43.Child Protection Team leader Karen Pedder has been giving
:02:44. > :02:47.evidence to the Scottish Social Services Council in Dundee.
:02:48. > :02:54.Karen Pedder was Lesley Bates's manager in the child protection team
:02:55. > :02:57.in Fife and she said they had an extremely high caseload
:02:58. > :03:00.but that Lesley Bates was no higher than anybody else.
:03:01. > :03:04.She acknowledged there were internal divisions within their team but says
:03:05. > :03:06.she encouraged her staff to act professionally and not be childish
:03:07. > :03:12.Lesley Bates had been assigned as a social worker to Liam Fee.
:03:13. > :03:16.He was killed by his mother in March.
:03:17. > :03:18.Miss Bates faces several charges involving 13
:03:19. > :03:41.During the trial Karen Pedder gave evidence and said Liam had
:03:42. > :03:44.dropped off the radar because his social worker had gone off sick.
:03:45. > :03:47.Today Karen Pedder told the conduct hearing at the Scottish social
:03:48. > :03:49.services council in Dundee she believed Lesley Bates had not
:03:50. > :03:53.She said despite concerns she didn't have specific systems in place
:03:54. > :03:57.She said she tended to keep lots of information on her
:03:58. > :03:59.head speaking to staff at regular supervisory meetings.
:04:00. > :04:02.She was asked why it was that with vulnerable children at risk nothing
:04:03. > :04:07.She said Bates was charged with doing that.
:04:08. > :04:11.Lesley Bates has chosen not to appear at the
:04:12. > :04:13.hearing and faces being struck off the social work register.
:04:14. > :04:15.The Serious Case Review is being carried out
:04:16. > :04:22.into the failings of social services in Fife to protect Liam Fee.
:04:23. > :04:26.A total of 1,000 Syrian refugees are now living in Scotland.
:04:27. > :04:31.It follows the arrival of 120 more refugees last week.
:04:32. > :04:33.John McManus reports from an Edinburgh community centre
:04:34. > :04:39.where some of the new arrivals are being taught English.
:04:40. > :04:42.This is the reality of life in Syria, a country which has now
:04:43. > :04:45.been at war with itself for five years.
:04:46. > :04:50.There is no sign the various factions will lay
:04:51. > :04:56.For some of those who have escaped like these refugees taking English
:04:57. > :04:59.classes today in Edinburgh, Scotland's generosity
:05:00. > :05:10.Passing the 1,000 person mark means that Scotland has taken
:05:11. > :05:14.about a third of the entire UK total of refugees from Syria
:05:15. > :05:20.English lessons are just one of the classes that refugees
:05:21. > :05:25.It is a skill they will need to get their heads around to become
:05:26. > :05:29.proficient in if they want to make a success of their time in Scotland.
:05:30. > :05:31.But one of those who has come from Syria says he may
:05:32. > :05:40.When Syria will be good I will come back, yes.
:05:41. > :05:47.My sisters and my brother are in Syria now.
:05:48. > :05:55.He has worked in telecoms and sales, skills that Scotland can use.
:05:56. > :05:57.But does the government think the new arrivals
:05:58. > :06:02.It's important people from all different faiths, backgrounds
:06:03. > :06:08.We have a good record of that in Scotland.
:06:09. > :06:13.There is always more work to do and that's
:06:14. > :06:14.where the Scottish Government invests heavily in community
:06:15. > :06:22.Angela Constance won't put an upper limit on the number of refugees
:06:23. > :06:27.Syrians are now living in almost all of the country's
:06:28. > :06:37.As this thank you letter to the First Minister
:06:38. > :06:39.shows they are profoundly grateful for the safe haven
:06:40. > :06:42.Perhaps inevitably, though, the Scottish weather
:06:43. > :06:50.John McManus, Reporting Scotland, Edinburgh.
:06:51. > :06:53.A 29-year-old man has been charged in connection with an incident
:06:54. > :06:57.in which a toddler fell from a flat window in South Lanarkshire.
:06:58. > :07:00.Emergency services were called to Kirkwood Street, in Rutherglen,
:07:01. > :07:06.The two-year-old boy was taken to Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth
:07:07. > :07:07.University Hospital where he's still believed to be
:07:08. > :07:12.Doubts remain over the Army's future use of a 250-year-old former
:07:13. > :07:24.The SNP has concerns that Fort George at Ardersier,
:07:25. > :07:27.near Inverness, is to stop functioning as a barracks as part
:07:28. > :07:30.It currently a base for soldiers of the Black Watch.
:07:31. > :07:33.The Scottish Secretary David Mundell said he could not confirm at this
:07:34. > :07:41.stage the military's future use of the barracks.
:07:42. > :07:49.The MoD is engaged in a widescale review of all it promises across the
:07:50. > :07:53.United Kingdom. It isn't going to make any statement about any
:07:54. > :07:58.individual premises until that review is complete. I don't think
:07:59. > :08:03.negative speculation is particularly helpful because it's always easy to
:08:04. > :08:09.suggest that a particular base is going to close, knowing the MoD
:08:10. > :08:11.isn't going to be able to deny that until the review is complete.
:08:12. > :08:13.The Scottish Labour leader has launched her alternative
:08:14. > :08:15.programme for government, five days before the First Minister
:08:16. > :08:17.lays out her plans for the new parliamentary year.
:08:18. > :08:21.Kezia Dugdale says she's putting forward a "serious agenda
:08:22. > :08:26."for change" with 13 proposed bills, including an education bill to help
:08:27. > :08:31.close the attainment gap and a law to ban fracking.
:08:32. > :08:33.The SNP say Labour's actual programme for government
:08:34. > :08:36.was rejected by voters in May's election, but Ms Dugdale
:08:37. > :08:40.insists she's focussing on what matters to people.
:08:41. > :08:43.The SNP once again have announced they are going to have a campaign
:08:44. > :08:46.for independence and I actually think Nicola Sturgeon should go back
:08:47. > :08:48.to the Parliament next week and focusing on the bread-and-butter
:08:49. > :08:51.issues affecting Scottish people, the quality of schools, NHS,
:08:52. > :08:54.the care elderly people get, how to eradicate fuel
:08:55. > :08:59.Those are just three of the programmes we have
:09:00. > :09:01.on our bill put forward to the Parliament next week
:09:02. > :09:03.reflecting what Scottish people want and moving away
:09:04. > :09:11.It's more than two months since the European Union referendum.
:09:12. > :09:14.And the focus now is very much on how and when Brexit
:09:15. > :09:20.But the Electoral Reform Society has been looking back at the campaign
:09:21. > :09:26.and today released a highly critical report, saying there were "glaring
:09:27. > :09:27."democratic deficiencies" with voters left
:09:28. > :09:33.I'm joined from Holyrood by our political
:09:34. > :09:45.The Electoral Reform Society examining the campaign up until June
:09:46. > :09:50.23 vote, they've been looking at the leave camp and remain camp and the
:09:51. > :09:54.terror into them. They say their campaigns were ill informed,
:09:55. > :09:59.negative and dominated by big political beasts on each side. So,
:10:00. > :10:03.they say reforms should be put in place in case there is another
:10:04. > :10:08.referendum, whenever that may be, so, to that end, they suggest
:10:09. > :10:12.allowing 16 and 17-year-olds the chance to vote so people get engaged
:10:13. > :10:18.in the political process, as they did in Scotland in 2014. They want a
:10:19. > :10:26.six-month campaign for the actual running up into the referendum
:10:27. > :10:29.period. It was only for McManas for the EU referendum. And they want an
:10:30. > :10:35.adjudication for the claims and counterclaims of both sides. That
:10:36. > :10:40.might be a hard one to instead. They praise the Scottish referendum by
:10:41. > :10:44.contrast and say Scotland became a hotbed of political spaces up and
:10:45. > :10:49.down the country. The SNP have welcomed that, criticising the UK
:10:50. > :10:54.Government. Of course, speaking to unionists, they say, hang on, don't
:10:55. > :10:57.get carried away. They claim the independence referendum was negative
:10:58. > :11:03.and divisive, and they say they were glad to see the back of it. At the
:11:04. > :11:07.end of the day, one has to be realistic, one has to be pragmatic
:11:08. > :11:08.about politics. It can be a brutal and sometimes a pretty miserable
:11:09. > :11:10.business. Well, it's over to the weather
:11:11. > :11:20.outlook for tonight and tomorrow. Good evening. Most of us have had
:11:21. > :11:24.some spells of rain so far today. That continues to clear bubble away
:11:25. > :11:29.during tonight to leave largely dry conditions with some cloud spells.
:11:30. > :11:33.Just a few showers affecting the north-west primarily and a fairly
:11:34. > :11:38.mild might come for most of us, too. Tomorrow brings us a mixture of
:11:39. > :11:43.sunshine and showers, the showers initially heaviest and most frequent
:11:44. > :11:48.across the north-west, becoming more widespread through the course of the
:11:49. > :11:55.day. Taking a closer look at 4pm tomorrow, some heavy and at times
:11:56. > :11:58.frequent showers across the Western Isles across much of the Highlands,
:11:59. > :12:02.and the Northern Isles, two, with the old rumble of thunder,
:12:03. > :12:07.temperatures 15-17. Plenty of sunshine across the Northeast and
:12:08. > :12:11.just a few showers. In the sunshine inland, temperatures reached 21
:12:12. > :12:14.Celsius, not too bad for this time of year at all. Through much of
:12:15. > :12:19.central and southern Scotland, a lot of dry weather to come with some
:12:20. > :12:23.showers with highs of 18. For the rest of the UK tomorrow afternoon,
:12:24. > :12:28.for Northern Ireland, a similar story to Scotland with sunshine and
:12:29. > :12:33.showers. It's an improving picture across north in England and Wales.
:12:34. > :12:44.The south-east, however, holding onto cloudy conditions with light
:12:45. > :12:48.and patchy rain and highs of 21. On tomorrow evening, showers continue
:12:49. > :12:50.towards the west and north-west, then as we head into Saturday, we
:12:51. > :12:55.have low pressure in charge and we then as we head into Saturday, we
:12:56. > :13:04.are expecting heavy rain to reach our shores. At this stage, the rain
:13:05. > :13:08.will push through Wales. Northern Ireland will have a mixture of
:13:09. > :13:12.sunshine and showers were the top temperature of 19 in Scotland. On
:13:13. > :13:14.Sunday, the low pressure remains in charge, fairly cloudy with showers
:13:15. > :13:16.at times, too. Our next update is during Breakfast
:13:17. > :13:20.at 6:25am tomorrow. But, from everyone on the late team
:13:21. > :13:24.here in Glasgow and around