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:00:07. > :00:39.What a cock-up. This is not a joke. I'm afraid they read the wrong

:00:40. > :00:42.thing. Moonlight, best picture. It really was incredible. Envelope

:00:43. > :00:43.gate, we will have more with all the academy award winners and that

:00:44. > :00:46.mistake. The scandal of young British

:00:47. > :00:50.children being sent overseas during the 50s and 60s

:00:51. > :00:52.where they were abused in institutions is the first subject

:00:53. > :00:55.of the sex abuse inquiry that David Hill was sent

:00:56. > :01:03.from the UK to Australia. He was nine years old. I thought the

:01:04. > :01:08.idea of being flogged in the middle of the night with a sadistic cottage

:01:09. > :01:14.mother with an ironing board was the norm. If this inquiry is capable of

:01:15. > :01:18.opening some of that truth, this is a good thing.

:01:19. > :01:22.Cash for some schools in England looks likely to be tighter than even

:01:23. > :01:25.according to head teachers who are warning of bigger class

:01:26. > :01:28.The government says school funding is now

:01:29. > :01:48.We are going to talk late in the programme about disability benefits,

:01:49. > :01:52.in particular personal independence payments, and whether they should go

:01:53. > :01:57.to, quote, really disabled people, not those taking pills at home.

:01:58. > :02:02.Those are the words of one Conservative MP who is being urged

:02:03. > :02:05.to apologise. Norman Smith will look in detail for you at the further

:02:06. > :02:13.cuts planned at what it might mean for you. Do get in touch about those

:02:14. > :02:15.stories today. If you are texting you will be charged at the standard

:02:16. > :02:21.network rate. This year's Oscars ceremony has

:02:22. > :02:25.ended in farce, after the wrong film The team behind musical

:02:26. > :02:30.La La Land had already started their acceptance speeches

:02:31. > :02:33.when the mistake was discovered. It was one of the film's producers

:02:34. > :02:36.who then said the award should One of the award's presenters,

:02:37. > :02:40.Warren Beatty, was handed David Willis looks

:02:41. > :02:46.back at the night. I still have a lot of growing

:02:47. > :02:50.and learning and work to do and this guy is a really beautiful symbol

:02:51. > :02:53.to continue on that journey and I am For the star of La La Land,

:02:54. > :02:57.Emma Stone, it was a Hollywood ending, named best actress

:02:58. > :03:01.for her role on one of the most That just left the big award

:03:02. > :03:08.of the night, best film. La La Land's producers were busy

:03:09. > :03:31.with their acceptance speeches but look at the man

:03:32. > :03:34.with the headphones on at the back. Frantically trying to

:03:35. > :03:39.clear the stage and take the best picture Oscar away

:03:40. > :03:42.from La La Land and give it to those whose film had actually won,

:03:43. > :03:44.the producers of Moonlight. La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz

:03:45. > :04:01.gallantly handed the Oscar over It was left to an embarrassed

:04:02. > :04:07.Warren Beatty to try to explain I opened the envelope and it said

:04:08. > :04:18.Emma Stone, La La Land. That's why I took such a long

:04:19. > :04:21.look at Faye and at you. Moonlight, the arthouse underdog,

:04:22. > :04:30.the drama of a gay black man growing up in Miami, was dwarfed

:04:31. > :04:33.by La La Land in terms of nominations but it ended

:04:34. > :04:35.triumphant in the most Very clearly, very clearly,

:04:36. > :04:43.even in my dreams this could not be true but to hell with dreams,

:04:44. > :04:45.I'm done with it Academy Award organisers

:04:46. > :04:56.are still trying to work out exactly what went wrong on a night like no

:04:57. > :05:09.other at the Oscars. That was the host, Jimmy Kimmel,

:05:10. > :05:14.saying he blamed himself for it. Let's go live to the red carpet

:05:15. > :05:18.outside the Vanity fair party. We can see Emma Stone, who won best

:05:19. > :05:23.actress for her performance in La La Land. She had an amazing night. She

:05:24. > :05:27.was on stage when she thought the film had also won best picture.

:05:28. > :05:31.James Cook, looking fantastic in his kilt, is on the green and white

:05:32. > :05:40.striped carpet, to match your kilt. Tell us what happened. Yes, I

:05:41. > :05:45.arranged that! Well, she is taking her moment in the sun, Emma Stone.

:05:46. > :05:53.She has got an Oscar. But her film does not have the best picture Oscar

:05:54. > :05:57.and it was the most extraordinary and most bizarre moment, the

:05:58. > :06:01.strangest plot twists you have ever seen. The producers were on the

:06:02. > :06:05.stage and they were well into their speeches before it became apparent

:06:06. > :06:08.that something was wrong. There was a certain sense of a frisson that

:06:09. > :06:13.there might be something amiss to begin with because there was a big

:06:14. > :06:21.delay before the name was read out. Nonetheless eventually it became

:06:22. > :06:23.clear that Moonlight had won. One of the producers of La La Land had the

:06:24. > :06:28.unenviable task of announcing this to the world and holding up the card

:06:29. > :06:32.that said Moonlight. And eventually the producers of Moonlight came on

:06:33. > :06:38.stage to accept their award. We have been speaking to the director, Barry

:06:39. > :06:42.Jenkins, tonight. He came down here. He won. At the end of the day, they

:06:43. > :06:48.won, and that was all that mattered to them for best picture. What an

:06:49. > :06:54.amazing evening. Was it as simple as somebody handing the wrong envelope

:06:55. > :06:58.to Warren Beatty? It seems that was the case. The envelope that was

:06:59. > :07:04.handed over was a second envelope containing a duplicate copy of the

:07:05. > :07:08.previous award. As I understand it, they always do have another one just

:07:09. > :07:12.in case. The previous award had been Emma Stone. When the envelope was

:07:13. > :07:17.opened, I suppose if you glance down at it, that explains the boards, and

:07:18. > :07:23.it did say La La Land on it somewhere. It is not entirely clear

:07:24. > :07:27.but that seems to be what happened. That is where it went wrong. Is

:07:28. > :07:34.there any chance of grabbing a word with Emma Stone? Is she heading away

:07:35. > :07:37.from you or towards you? No! Are you kidding me? She breezed up the

:07:38. > :07:40.carpet on the other side and she has gone into the party and she stops

:07:41. > :07:45.were nobody and she was making it very clear she wasn't going to stop.

:07:46. > :07:54.You get a sense of who will stop and who will not and sometimes you can

:07:55. > :08:01.face them back -- fish them back. If we could talk to her, we would! I

:08:02. > :08:05.know! We will have a half-hour Oscars special from 9:30am until ten

:08:06. > :08:09.o'clock where we bring you all the winners and we will discuss in more

:08:10. > :08:13.detail the films that won. La La Land did get six Oscars but that is

:08:14. > :08:16.overshadowed by that horrendous mistake.

:08:17. > :08:20.Joanna Gosling is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:08:21. > :08:26.The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse will hold its first

:08:27. > :08:28.public hearings today, more than two and a half

:08:29. > :08:30.years after it was set up by the government.

:08:31. > :08:33.It will begin by examining the mistreatment of British children

:08:34. > :08:37.in care or from poor families who were sent to Australia in the

:08:38. > :08:41.The inquiry will be told that the scale of abuse

:08:42. > :08:43.they suffered was much wider than previously thought.

:08:44. > :08:48.Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds is at the inquiry

:08:49. > :08:52.The inquiry will be told that the scale of abuse

:08:53. > :08:53.they suffered was much wider than previously thought.

:08:54. > :08:56.Our home affairs correspondent tom symonds is at the inquiry

:08:57. > :09:01.This is just the start of it. What will it be focusing on? There are 13

:09:02. > :09:04.different topics that the inquiry will be focusing on and this is one

:09:05. > :09:08.of those topics, part of it, which gives you an idea of the scale of

:09:09. > :09:11.this. In a nondescript building behind me they will be taking

:09:12. > :09:20.evidence to date from those involved in the issue of child migration. Up

:09:21. > :09:24.until 1974, children from poor families were sent without their

:09:25. > :09:29.parents to New Zealand, Australia and southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe,

:09:30. > :09:33.for what they were told would be a better life. But in particular in

:09:34. > :09:38.Australia in the post-war leers they experienced physical and sexual

:09:39. > :09:41.abuse. This inquiry will be looking at the sexual abuse and the scale of

:09:42. > :09:45.it. There have been more disclosures from people as they have grown older

:09:46. > :09:49.in their lives and felt more able to talk about what happened to them.

:09:50. > :09:54.And indeed what cover up there was, if there was one of those. There has

:09:55. > :09:57.been an allegation that in the 1950s a lot of this was known about but

:09:58. > :10:00.not much was done. And whether there was abuse in the British games

:10:01. > :10:04.before these children left the UK. Thank you.

:10:05. > :10:07.The NHS has mislaid more than half a million items of patients'

:10:08. > :10:08.confidential medical correspondence, including treatment plans

:10:09. > :10:12.The documents, sent between GPs and hospitals over a period

:10:13. > :10:14.of five years, did not reach their recipients

:10:15. > :10:18.because they were mistakenly stored in a warehouse by private company

:10:19. > :10:26.A woman married to a British man for 27 years has been

:10:27. > :10:31.Irene Clennell was being held in a Scottish detention centre,

:10:32. > :10:34.but told the BBC she has been sent back to her country

:10:35. > :10:38.She had been living near Durham with her husband,

:10:39. > :10:44.It's thought that periods spent abroad caring for her parents

:10:45. > :10:56.The Home Office said it does not comment on individual cases.

:10:57. > :10:58.The government is facing calls from Conservative MPs to scrap

:10:59. > :11:00.plans to limit access to a key disability benefit.

:11:01. > :11:03.It's thought changes to the rules on who qualifies for

:11:04. > :11:07.the personal independence payment could affect around 160,000 people.

:11:08. > :11:10.It comes as a key aide to Theresa May said

:11:11. > :11:16.were needed to roll back the bizarre decisions of tribunals.

:11:17. > :11:19.Head teachers and school governors are calling on the Chancellor

:11:20. > :11:21.to make schools a priority in the budget.

:11:22. > :11:23.The National Association of Head Teachers and the National

:11:24. > :11:25.Association of Governors have written an open letter

:11:26. > :11:27.to Philip Hammond to say that they're being forced to make

:11:28. > :11:36.Downing Street has dismissed suggestions that Theresa May

:11:37. > :11:39.will announce that the end of free movement for new EU migrants

:11:40. > :11:42.The Daily Telegraph is reporting that the cut-off date

:11:43. > :11:45.could be the 15th of March, once the Government's Article 50

:11:46. > :11:50.Anyone arriving in the UK after that point would no longer

:11:51. > :11:57.have the automatic right to stay in the UK permanently.

:11:58. > :12:00.The BBC has ordered an investigation into TV licence collectors

:12:01. > :12:01.following reports that they're deliberately targeting vulnerable

:12:02. > :12:05.The Daily Mail claims enforcement officers,

:12:06. > :12:08.who are employed by the private company Capita, are ordered to catch

:12:09. > :12:11.28 evaders every week and promised financial incentives for hitting

:12:12. > :12:19.The mobile phone company Nokia is bringing back

:12:20. > :12:21.one of its most famous models, the 3310.

:12:22. > :12:23.The company has struggled to compete in the smartphone era,

:12:24. > :12:26.but it hopes there'll be a demand for a simple phone with a battery

:12:27. > :12:33.The handset was first launched in 2000,

:12:34. > :12:37.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:12:38. > :12:46.Thank you. There are some very amusing tweets after what happened

:12:47. > :12:53.at the Oscars, as you would expect. It is being called envelope gate.

:12:54. > :12:57.This isn't particularly amusing, but this one says this is how you get

:12:58. > :13:02.people to talk about the dead, boring event. This one, good grief!

:13:03. > :13:08.This one, Emma Stone was the true star. And this one, I feel sorry for

:13:09. > :13:12.Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway but what a hospital pass. Warren Beatty

:13:13. > :13:18.and the envelope to Fay Dunaway and thought I don't know what is going

:13:19. > :13:24.on so I will give it to her! Time for the sport now. Jessica is in

:13:25. > :13:31.Salford. Manchester United are celebrating winning their first

:13:32. > :13:35.silverware. Yes, first trophy on the books for them and the first trophy

:13:36. > :13:38.for Jose Mourinho and he has written his name into history actually

:13:39. > :13:43.because he has become the first Manchester United manager in their

:13:44. > :13:46.history to win a trophy in the first season. Southampton might be a bit

:13:47. > :13:50.disappointed because they played well. Much of the game they were on

:13:51. > :13:55.top but they had this goal disallowed early on in the first

:13:56. > :14:00.half. Then of course Ibrahimovic put Manchester United 1-0 up. After the

:14:01. > :14:06.break, Southampton brought it back to 2-2 but who got the winner? Of

:14:07. > :14:11.course Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He has been a vital part of Manchester

:14:12. > :14:14.United's season. To the point that the manager, Jose Mourinho, has

:14:15. > :14:24.called on the fans to help him to stay. I don't beg for players. But

:14:25. > :14:32.if needed, I think maybe United fans can go to the door of his house and

:14:33. > :14:40.stay there and stay there all night! It is needed. He will go for sure.

:14:41. > :14:44.We're also going to be talking about the Six Nations. Don't know if you

:14:45. > :14:49.saw this. At the England head coach Eddie Jones was annoyed at Italy.

:14:50. > :14:53.England won the match but the way they went about its divided opinion.

:14:54. > :14:57.Some people say the tactics were innovative and others say it ruined

:14:58. > :15:00.the game. Essentially they chose not to compete at the breakdown, which

:15:01. > :15:04.allowed them to step into the England line without going offside.

:15:05. > :15:08.The England players here were bamboozled, even the captain, Dylan

:15:09. > :15:14.Hartley. He asked the clarification from the referee. At one point

:15:15. > :15:17.England were 10-5 down at half-time. England looked on course for a

:15:18. > :15:26.famous unexpected victory at Twickenham, but five tries in the

:15:27. > :15:30.second half got England the win and they won 36-15. This is what Eddie

:15:31. > :15:35.Jones had to say and he is pretty critical. It wasn't rugby. Let's

:15:36. > :15:39.face the facts. You have got to have an offside line to play the game.

:15:40. > :15:43.Italy was smart and congratulations to their coaching staff and the

:15:44. > :15:47.players. They executed that plan brilliantly but it wasn't rugby. If

:15:48. > :15:53.I was the BBC I would be asking the RFU for their money back because it

:15:54. > :15:55.wasn't a rugby game. We should go out and train them in rugby. Say

:15:56. > :16:01.what you really think! Thank you. We're going to talk about school

:16:02. > :16:05.funding. School funding in England

:16:06. > :16:08.is tighter than at any time That's the view of independent

:16:09. > :16:11.watchdog the Institute It has looked at education funding

:16:12. > :16:17.across the last 30 years and it predicts significant cuts

:16:18. > :16:18.in pupil spending. Further education, sixth

:16:19. > :16:20.forms and colleges, Well, according to the IFS,

:16:21. > :16:28.spending per pupil generally is set It's the biggest drop

:16:29. > :16:36.in more than 30 years. In recent times, the big winner has

:16:37. > :16:39.been early years education. ?2.3 billion were spent on this

:16:40. > :16:42.on 2015, when back in 1990 While pupil funding will have

:16:43. > :16:49.risen by 70% by 2020. In further education and sixth

:16:50. > :16:51.forms, it hasn't gone The predicted funding cuts have come

:16:52. > :17:07.as a concern to teaching unions who were worried about potentially

:17:08. > :17:10.larger class sizes, schools having to beg parents for funding,

:17:11. > :17:12.and further education course It comes as the Government rolls out

:17:13. > :17:18.a new funding formula to try and make it fairer for schools

:17:19. > :17:21.in more deprived or rural areas. In a moment we'll be

:17:22. > :17:23.asking what the latest figures mean for teachers,

:17:24. > :17:25.parents and politicians, but first let's have a look at those

:17:26. > :18:51.changes in more detail. Jo is mum to two primary school

:18:52. > :18:55.children and founded Fair Funding for all Schools to campaign for more

:18:56. > :19:00.education funding across the board. Adrian Kneeshaw is the headteacher

:19:01. > :19:02.at Carlton Bolling College He says it's hard work

:19:03. > :19:06.balancing his budget. Conservative MP Neil

:19:07. > :19:08.Carmichael is here. He's also the chair

:19:09. > :19:11.of the Education Select Committee. Luke Sibieta wrote the report from

:19:12. > :19:14.the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He says further education has

:19:15. > :19:24.been hit the hardest Jo, are you seeing an impact on your

:19:25. > :19:28.children's primary school already? Yes, we founded this new national

:19:29. > :19:30.parent campaign because parents are very unhappy that the Government

:19:31. > :19:35.isn't keeping to the promises they made to parents. What kind of

:19:36. > :19:41.impacts are you seeing? Well, in the areas where I am, we're seeing class

:19:42. > :19:46.sizes increase. From what to what? Well, the class sizes are at the

:19:47. > :19:49.highest level in a decade. It is not supposed to be over 30 in state

:19:50. > :19:52.schools? And it is in many of our schools and as parents that's

:19:53. > :19:57.unacceptable. I don't think any parent wants to see class sizes

:19:58. > :20:02.increasing, parents want to see class sizes deceasing. The report

:20:03. > :20:05.confirms what a lot of people are saying is that per pupil funding is

:20:06. > :20:08.being cutment we are seeing the biggest cuts to our schools for 30

:20:09. > :20:12.years, but the Government is in denial about this and in this

:20:13. > :20:16.context they are introducing this new fair funding formula which we

:20:17. > :20:20.agree with the principle of, we support the idea of a new national

:20:21. > :20:24.funding formula, we agree with the need to address historical

:20:25. > :20:27.injustice, but we don't think what is proposed will provide justice to

:20:28. > :20:32.anyone because it is in the context of a pot that's already too small to

:20:33. > :20:36.sustain our schools. Adrian, tell us about the kind of constraints you

:20:37. > :20:40.feel you're facing. How is it impacting your children's education?

:20:41. > :20:45.Well, it is not really impacting too much here, but it is challenging. It

:20:46. > :20:49.has been for a good few years, we have had various cost pressures,

:20:50. > :20:55.national insurance contribution has gone up, introduction of Living

:20:56. > :21:01.Wage, apprenticeship, they add pressures on the school. We have had

:21:02. > :21:06.to over the last two to three years, in maths and English we have an

:21:07. > :21:10.average class size of 15 and we'll retain that. Staff in areas where

:21:11. > :21:18.are deemed non critical had to go unfortunately. What's non critical

:21:19. > :21:23.area? Administration. At one time we had 14 people in the admin team and

:21:24. > :21:26.now we're down to six or seven. OK? We have the resources where it

:21:27. > :21:32.brings the results for the students which in the classroom so the last

:21:33. > :21:37.area I would go to compromise would be increasing class sizes. Let me

:21:38. > :21:40.bring in Luke. You wrote the report. You have no axe to grind. Some

:21:41. > :21:45.things appear to be contradictory, maybe you can explain them. You say

:21:46. > :21:49.funding per pupil st going to fall 6.5% by 2020. The Government says

:21:50. > :21:57.spending is higher in real terms by 70%. So, well, to start with,

:21:58. > :22:00.they're both true. So the cuts to school spending come on the back of

:22:01. > :22:06.a very significant increase in school spending over the 2000s and a

:22:07. > :22:12.bit of an increase in the last Parliament. Spending per head is 70%

:22:13. > :22:16.higher than it was in 1990, but the schools are making the first real

:22:17. > :22:21.terms cuts they have this had to make in 20 years. I imagine there

:22:22. > :22:28.are a few headteachers around today who are going back and trying to

:22:29. > :22:33.find cuts in their budget. So, what falling is the amount of money being

:22:34. > :22:39.spent per pupil? Yes. Because the numbers of children is going up? So

:22:40. > :22:44.the numbers of children are going up by about an 7%, pupils by 2020 as

:22:45. > :22:49.compared with 2015. The spending per pupil that goes into the classroom

:22:50. > :22:53.will be frozen in cash terms, if it is ?5,000, it will be ?5,000 per

:22:54. > :22:57.pupil in 2020, but they are not providing money for the cost of

:22:58. > :23:01.inflation. So the extra national insurance contributions and the

:23:02. > :23:05.extra pension contributions and the costs of teacher pay, that's not

:23:06. > :23:08.going to schools. Neil Carmichael, do you accept that budgets are

:23:09. > :23:12.becoming more stretched for primary school pupils and secondary school

:23:13. > :23:16.pupils? Overall the budgets are tight because we've got a deficit of

:23:17. > :23:21.?60 billion each year to deal with, so it is true no big promises can be

:23:22. > :23:27.made to expand the budget, but within the budget I do think we need

:23:28. > :23:31.to be more sensible about the way in which we allocate money, and there

:23:32. > :23:34.are two areas which have done well. One is early years in comparison to

:23:35. > :23:38.the 1990s is different and better. Why would you, sorry to interrupt,

:23:39. > :23:44.Mr Carmichael, as a Conservative MP and chair of the Education Select

:23:45. > :23:51.Committee, why would you want to see funding per pupil falling by 2020?

:23:52. > :23:54.Well, we don't. Well, then you could make different choices, you don't

:23:55. > :23:58.have to spend ?50 billion on HS2 or foreign aid? There are lots of

:23:59. > :24:02.different choices we could make. Why that choice? We need to spend more

:24:03. > :24:06.on education. I'll tell you why. One reason is we have a serious shortage

:24:07. > :24:10.of skills in our economy. If we leave the European Union, which we

:24:11. > :24:14.intend to do... It seems utterly bizarre, doesn't it? I think the key

:24:15. > :24:18.thing is making sure that we spend the money on the right areas. I

:24:19. > :24:21.could think of a few. I've talked about already early years, but let's

:24:22. > :24:26.look at the free school situation for example. The NAO, over leading

:24:27. > :24:30.organisation, has pointed out that we're spending a huge amount of

:24:31. > :24:33.money on building new schools, sometimes according the NAO in the

:24:34. > :24:37.wrong place so we need to think about that. That's about making sure

:24:38. > :24:40.the money that we have, we spend well and that's clearly a thrust of

:24:41. > :24:46.the Education Select Committee. But more important still, is the need to

:24:47. > :24:51.deal with two big challenges. One, is the tail of underachievement in

:24:52. > :24:55.our primary school sector as identified by Sir Michael Wilshere.

:24:56. > :24:58.The former head of Ofsted? It is a serious problem and we have to think

:24:59. > :25:03.carefully. That was identified by him last year. Yes, it was. You have

:25:04. > :25:09.been in power now for how long? Since 2010? Absolutely. It is not a

:25:10. > :25:13.good idea to see spending per pupil fall by 6.5%? We have increased

:25:14. > :25:17.expenditure well. But the numbers of pupils have gone up. Sorry, do the

:25:18. > :25:21.maths. I don't mean to be rude? You're right. That's why in the

:25:22. > :25:24.long-term, we've got to increase expenditure on education. Right. Is

:25:25. > :25:27.Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, going to do that in the Budget which

:25:28. > :25:31.is coming up? I don't think that's going to happen any time soon

:25:32. > :25:35.because as I've already said we've got a ?60 billion deficit, but the

:25:36. > :25:38.warning sign is actually what are we going to do when we leave the

:25:39. > :25:41.European Union and we need to have the skills that we haven't had in

:25:42. > :25:45.the past? Because actually what we've done in the last 30 odd years

:25:46. > :25:49.is getting the skills, get the skills from abroad. Jo, parent, two

:25:50. > :25:53.children in primary school, talk to the Conservative MP. It is late for

:25:54. > :25:59.Neil to say you can't make promises to put more money. You made those

:26:00. > :26:03.promises in your manifesto. You made a promise to protect pupil funding

:26:04. > :26:08.and introduce a new pupil funding. The report out today would suggest

:26:09. > :26:10.you haven't. And I think that you made those promises, you must have

:26:11. > :26:13.thought that you would need to provide the funds to be able to

:26:14. > :26:20.deliver them and as parents what we're saying is please would you now

:26:21. > :26:24.do that because we're not happy with the impact of the cuts to our

:26:25. > :26:29.schools. I haven't read the whole of it, but we've got inflation now and

:26:30. > :26:34.that's having a huge impact on our school budgets. As Adrian pointed

:26:35. > :26:38.out, he is having to think about pensions and other costs like, the

:26:39. > :26:43.Living Wage. All of these are feeding into the system so we have

:26:44. > :26:46.do recalibrate it. All introduced by a Conservative Government?

:26:47. > :26:51.Absolutely. You knew that was coming down the line. Well, who wants to

:26:52. > :26:55.cement in poverty Living Wage is an excellent idea... No one is arguing

:26:56. > :26:59.against the Living Wage, I don't think... No, good. But you knew that

:27:00. > :27:02.was coming so therefore you have to address that with the funding for

:27:03. > :27:09.schools in England, surely? Well, what I'm saying is, I don't think

:27:10. > :27:11.that, the next Budget and it's coming soon is going to be

:27:12. > :27:15.particularly good news if we're asking for a big increase in the

:27:16. > :27:17.total budgetment what I do think is within the medium-term and the

:27:18. > :27:24.long-term, we should be campaigning for that and I am as a Conservative

:27:25. > :27:29.member of Parliament, but whilst we are talking about the budget that

:27:30. > :27:34.we've got, we've got to make sure the money goes to the right places

:27:35. > :27:38.and that's something Jo alluded to earlier. The new funding system is

:27:39. > :27:41.about making sure pup approximatelies wherever they are

:27:42. > :27:44.get a fair slice of the cake and there are some aspects of that, new

:27:45. > :27:48.formula funding system which we need to test. OK, I'm going to leave it

:27:49. > :27:52.there. You know you've got loads more to say and we'll return to this

:27:53. > :27:58.issue. Don't worry about that. Thank you for coming on the programme,

:27:59. > :28:03.Neil Carmichael, he is chair of the Education Select Committee, Luke, Jo

:28:04. > :28:12.Yurky, the mum of two primary school children and thank you, Adrian.

:28:13. > :28:16.If you're seeing an impact on your school, let me know.

:28:17. > :28:20.Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:28:21. > :28:28.Organisers of the Oscars say they are trying to work out how the

:28:29. > :28:33.ceremony ended in chaos. La La Land was mistakenly named as the winner,

:28:34. > :28:38.but it was discovered that the award should have gone to Moonlight. Price

:28:39. > :28:40.water house coopers apologised saying there was a mix-up with the

:28:41. > :28:44.award envelopes. The independent inquiry into child

:28:45. > :28:47.sexual abuse will hold its first public hearings today,

:28:48. > :28:49.more than two and a half years after it was set

:28:50. > :28:51.up by the government. It will begin by examining

:28:52. > :28:54.the mistreatment of British children in care or from poor families

:28:55. > :28:56.who were sent to Australia in the The inquiry will be told

:28:57. > :29:00.that the scale of abuse they suffered was much wider

:29:01. > :29:04.than previously thought. The NHS has mislaid more than half

:29:05. > :29:07.a million items of patients' confidential medical correspondence,

:29:08. > :29:08.including treatment plans The documents, sent between GPs

:29:09. > :29:12.and hospitals over a period of five years, did not

:29:13. > :29:14.reach their recipients because they were mistakenly stored

:29:15. > :29:18.in a warehouse by private company That's a summary of

:29:19. > :29:39.the latest BBC News. Good morning. I'm looking at social

:29:40. > :29:46.media on the Oscars. There is plenty of it!

:29:47. > :29:52.An anonymous e-mail here, "The Oscars, what a farce." Dave says,

:29:53. > :29:58."Oscars, hilarious. They can't even run their own show." Sean on

:29:59. > :30:03.Facebook, "Please focus on who won, not who didn't." We will bring you a

:30:04. > :30:21.special Oscars programme shortly. Do stay with us.

:30:22. > :30:27.Hello and welcome to our Oscars results programme.

:30:28. > :30:29.It's a ceremony that will only ever be remembered for

:30:30. > :30:31.one massive mistake - now known as envelope-gate

:30:32. > :30:33.as the wrong film is named winner of Best Picture.

:30:34. > :30:56.This is not a joke. Moonlight has won best picture.

:30:57. > :31:03.Total confusion on stage and off as the cast and crew of both films

:31:04. > :31:06.But it was Moonlight, about a boy growing up in Miami

:31:07. > :31:08.to a crack-addicted mother, which in the end took

:31:09. > :31:14.Its director Barry Jenkins gave his reaction.

:31:15. > :31:17.The last 20 minutes of my life have been insane.

:31:18. > :31:26.I don't think my life could be changed any more dramatically.

:31:27. > :31:28.The early favourite to win best picture, La La Land,

:31:29. > :31:34.But in the end the team behind it won six Oscars including

:31:35. > :31:42.Let's go live to Hollywood and our entertainment correspondent

:31:43. > :31:50.Colin Patterson is on the red carpet at the after-show Vanity Fair party.

:31:51. > :31:57.Colin, Colin, Colin what a night. I was listening to you on the radio

:31:58. > :32:02.when it all unfolded. How did it go wrong? There was I having to do

:32:03. > :32:07.radio commentary on the moment and boy, did it go wrong? It couldn't be

:32:08. > :32:17.more wrong! Faye Dunaway reading out La La Land but it all turned into

:32:18. > :32:22.Moonlight. So what did go wrong, Colin? It will tell as in a minute.

:32:23. > :32:27.PricewaterhouseCoopers have just given as a statement which I can

:32:28. > :32:31.read to you. We can seriously apologise to Moonlight, La La Land,

:32:32. > :32:40.Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty and Oscar viewers for the mistake in the

:32:41. > :32:46.announcement. The announcers were given the wrong envelope. We are

:32:47. > :32:51.investigating how this could have happened. We appreciate the grace

:32:52. > :32:55.with which the nominees, the academy, ABC and Jimmy Kimmel

:32:56. > :32:59.handled the situation. I am on the green and white carpet at the Vanity

:33:00. > :33:03.Fair party and it is all anyone here has been talking about. That is an

:33:04. > :33:09.impressive cigar, Sir. You are live on the BBC. Thank you. This is a 24

:33:10. > :33:13.carat gold cigar and I thought it only appropriate to bring it out on

:33:14. > :33:18.a night like tonight. Guess what, this building is only a building but

:33:19. > :33:23.this moment is everything. Why? Moonlight winning? Moonlight

:33:24. > :33:31.winning. Here is the thing. I love Emma Stone, I love her. But when

:33:32. > :33:37.Moonlight won, and they corrected, it was this type of moment. It was a

:33:38. > :33:47.24 carat gold cigar moment. I thought that transcended John

:33:48. > :33:51.Rhodes, cultures, races, -- genres. And we really get to see what it

:33:52. > :33:55.means to understand the power of view. That is what I am about. Love

:33:56. > :33:59.and peace. I thought Moonlight represented that and I thought it

:34:00. > :34:05.deserved it. I was glad to see that moment. Barry Jenkins is a good

:34:06. > :34:11.friend of mine. I am so proud of what he is doing. Ali is a good

:34:12. > :34:17.friend. Introduce yourself and then we have got to go. My name is Kobe

:34:18. > :34:26.Randolph. I am Gatsby. I will see you in Cannes. We made history

:34:27. > :34:34.tonight. There we go. The Vanity Fair after show party. That is quite

:34:35. > :34:39.a cigar! This is envelope-gate. This is the moment it all went wrong.

:34:40. > :35:02.Moonlight, you guys won best picture.

:35:03. > :35:31.Guys, this is very unfortunate what happened.

:35:32. > :35:35.Personally, I blame Steve Harvey for this!

:35:36. > :35:50.I opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone, La La Land.

:35:51. > :35:53.That's why I took such a long look at Faye and at you,

:35:54. > :36:03.I have to say, and it is true, it's not fake, we've been

:36:04. > :36:06.on the road with these guys for so long and it was so gracious,

:36:07. > :36:08.so generous of them, my love to La La Land,

:36:09. > :36:19.Warren Beatty opened the envelope and then he handed it to Faye

:36:20. > :36:21.Dunaway because he didn't know what to do. We will talk about all the

:36:22. > :36:33.winners in just a moment. was at the Oscars ceremony -

:36:34. > :36:41.inside the Dolby Theatre - because her husband

:36:42. > :36:49.Chris Shaw was nominated for an Oscar for documentary

:36:50. > :36:51.Watani: My Homeland. everyone inside the auditorium

:36:52. > :36:54.reacted to the mistake. Everyone looked at each other

:36:55. > :36:57.and wondered was this some kind of prank because it had been quite

:36:58. > :37:00.a fun Oscars programme, And then he just said

:37:01. > :37:04.to the audience, this is not a joke. And everybody around us

:37:05. > :37:06.gasped with astonishment because they'd never seen anything

:37:07. > :37:07.like that whatsoever. And then after that it was chaos

:37:08. > :37:10.because there was the cast of La La Land on stage and then

:37:11. > :37:13.the people from Moonlight Nobody really knew

:37:14. > :37:16.what had happened. Then Warren Beatty stepped forward

:37:17. > :37:18.and tried to explain. He said that when he had opened

:37:19. > :37:22.the envelope he had started talking rather slowly and he said this

:37:23. > :37:24.wasn't a joke, it was because he had seen what was written there,

:37:25. > :37:27.which was Emma Stone, Clearly the winner of

:37:28. > :37:29.the previous category. He didn't know quite what to do

:37:30. > :37:32.so he handed the envelope very slowly over to Faye Dunaway

:37:33. > :37:35.and she read out La La Land. If you look back on it,

:37:36. > :37:38.not total conviction in her voice when she said it and then

:37:39. > :37:41.they clearly knew something had gone That was one hell of a hospital pass

:37:42. > :37:45.when Warren Beatty handed When everyone was filing out

:37:46. > :37:51.of the Dolby Theatre, obviously that's the only topic

:37:52. > :37:54.of conversation and I gather Ryan Gosling was in the same

:37:55. > :38:01.limo queue as you. I know how strange that sentence

:38:02. > :38:04.is, but he really was. He was waiting for the limo

:38:05. > :38:07.at the same time as we were and I saw him on his phone

:38:08. > :38:10.and I have to say his face, completely understandably,

:38:11. > :38:14.looked like thunder. film, everybody thinking

:38:15. > :38:19.you are going to win, you are up on stage,

:38:20. > :38:22.your moment of glory and then to have it absolutely

:38:23. > :38:24.snatched away from you. I feel sorry for the Moonlight

:38:25. > :38:29.people, as well, because their moment was to a certain extent

:38:30. > :38:33.spoiled as the Oscar was being snatched from one hand

:38:34. > :38:38.to another and then at the side of that chaotic gathering

:38:39. > :38:40.there was poor Faye Dunaway holding hands with one of the other women

:38:41. > :38:45.on the stage obviously horrified at what she had

:38:46. > :38:48.been a part of, as well. Everybody filing out was saying

:38:49. > :39:05.I have never been to an Oscars Confirmation, if confirmation were

:39:06. > :39:12.needed, Moonlight won the academy award for best picture after that La

:39:13. > :39:19.La Land mix-up. Casey Affleck won best actor.

:39:20. > :39:22.That's for his portrayal of Lee Chandler, the grief stricken Janitor

:39:23. > :39:27.Victory for La La Land, this time for Emma Stone as best actress,

:39:28. > :39:29.who played a young woman desperately looking to make her

:39:30. > :39:33.Mahershala Ali won best supporting actor for his role as a drug dealer

:39:34. > :39:35.in Miami in the best picture Moonlight.

:39:36. > :39:37.He's the first Muslim to win the award.

:39:38. > :39:38.Best supporting actress went to Viola Davis

:39:39. > :39:40.for her role in Fences, playing Rose, the wife

:39:41. > :39:42.of Denzel Washington's character Troy Maxson.

:39:43. > :39:49.Damien Chazelle became the youngest ever to win the best director prize

:39:50. > :39:51.for his work on La La Land and finally

:39:52. > :39:54.OJ: Made in America - the film depicting the rise and fall

:39:55. > :39:57.of OJ Simpson from sporting superstar to being at the centre

:39:58. > :40:00.of the most publicised murder trial in history - that won

:40:01. > :40:03.Film critics Jason Solomons and Gaylene Gould are here to talk

:40:04. > :40:14.Good morning first of all. Has a mistake like that ever happened

:40:15. > :40:19.before? Not like that, not at the climax, not for best picture. There

:40:20. > :40:25.was a rumour that many years ago that the best supporting actress for

:40:26. > :40:29.My Cousin Vinny was the wrong price but it has never been proven and it

:40:30. > :40:34.only came out some time later. But that was never proven. What I don't

:40:35. > :40:39.understand last night, what all those envelopes were doing up there.

:40:40. > :40:43.Red envelopes. It is like a Chinese wedding in there! He has one in the

:40:44. > :40:46.background and Warren Beatty is holding another one and the producer

:40:47. > :40:51.has one and then Oscars galore and I think Warren Beatty has still got

:40:52. > :40:56.one! I don't know what he is doing with it. I don't know how that chaos

:40:57. > :41:04.was allowed to happen. Amazing. What is brilliant, the producer for La La

:41:05. > :41:11.Land, Jordan Horrowitz, not just in, that is a composer, it was very

:41:12. > :41:16.important that it came from him. -- not just in. That transition of

:41:17. > :41:22.power. He was the guy who said it isn't a joke and he handed up the

:41:23. > :41:30.envelope. Did the best film when the best picture? Yes, in my opinion.

:41:31. > :41:36.Give us a brief summary of what it is a bad for those who haven't seen

:41:37. > :41:42.it. It is a tiny film and a complete passion project. Barry Jenkins

:41:43. > :41:47.created this project very much based on their very difficult backgrounds

:41:48. > :41:53.in Miami on a housing project, with crack addicted mothers. They created

:41:54. > :41:56.this piece which was supposed to give a sense of grace to their

:41:57. > :42:01.beginnings and it is one man's journey told through three stages of

:42:02. > :42:05.his life as he comes to terms with his own sexuality and sensuality in

:42:06. > :42:09.this very tough environment. It is beautiful and it is tiny and it is

:42:10. > :42:14.perfectly formed. What did you think, Jason? Did the right film

:42:15. > :42:19.when that award? I think it is a ground-breaking baited to win this

:42:20. > :42:23.award and the lowest budget picture ever to win best picture. $4

:42:24. > :42:33.million, I think, and the numbers change considering the exchange rate

:42:34. > :42:40.and things like that. It is not like Hollywood. It is more like Asian

:42:41. > :42:47.cinema. I was looking at the previous best picture, and I went

:42:48. > :42:52.back to 1969 and Midnight Cowboy to find one that played with cinema so

:42:53. > :42:56.well. On the first all-black cast to win an Oscar. La La Land I loved as

:42:57. > :43:01.well, I have got to say, and they could feel hard done by, but to see

:43:02. > :43:04.them both up that means that Hollywood has a new ways and that

:43:05. > :43:08.wave broke on the stage last night. There is a fresh look in Hollywood

:43:09. > :43:13.and it belongs to the younger generation. La La Land was the

:43:14. > :43:18.favourite to win best picture. It is worth reminding them that 7000

:43:19. > :43:22.academy award members ranked the nine pictures in the category in

:43:23. > :43:32.order of preference. Why didn't La La Land win? This is a perfect

:43:33. > :43:37.ending to the Oscars for me. This Oscars was always about La La Land

:43:38. > :43:42.versus Moonlight. La La Land is a film about Hollywood and the romance

:43:43. > :43:46.of cinema. That is what normally drives the Hollywood machine. But

:43:47. > :43:51.there was a backlash because of the hype around it, I think? Because of

:43:52. > :43:56.that but also it is a very classic piece of cinema. It is very

:43:57. > :44:01.ambitious but also very classic. The followers of Moonlight came from a

:44:02. > :44:05.very different kind of sensibility. There was always a battle between

:44:06. > :44:10.the two audiences and think it is perfect that they both ended up in

:44:11. > :44:16.stage, in a way. There was this handover between them. For me it was

:44:17. > :44:20.like the old school handing over to a voice. I thought that was really

:44:21. > :44:23.significant, symbolic and beautiful. Both these film-makers are very good

:44:24. > :44:29.friends and they totally shared the journey. But it was this new voice

:44:30. > :44:33.in terms of the audience that came into the room last night and I loved

:44:34. > :44:38.that. La La Land was the early favourite and continued to be the

:44:39. > :44:41.favourite. What happened? I saw it in August at its world premiere at

:44:42. > :44:46.the Venice film festival and I fell in love with it. My jaw dropped.

:44:47. > :44:51.Somebody is doing a musical, how exciting. Playing with the old

:44:52. > :44:55.tropes, a freshness with indie actors, and I loved it. Along the

:44:56. > :44:58.way a backlash started to happen and it is very easy to criticise La La

:44:59. > :45:04.Land for being about why people wandering about in LA drinking

:45:05. > :45:08.coffee and having dreams and having first world problems, to use a

:45:09. > :45:15.hashtag. But with no light, it is very difficult to take against it.

:45:16. > :45:22.It is so political and poetic and steering and about a brutal and

:45:23. > :45:24.tough situation. It was important for gay culture, black culture,

:45:25. > :45:29.voices that haven't been heard before and the timing was just right

:45:30. > :45:32.for it. I wake up yesterday morning thinking that Moonlight could do it

:45:33. > :45:35.and I had already filmed in my own ballot and put La La Land and I

:45:36. > :45:39.crossed it out in the last moment and put Moonlight. I thought I was

:45:40. > :45:44.wrong but in the end I won as well so I was excited.

:45:45. > :45:53.What was second on your ballot? La La Land. Let's talk about best

:45:54. > :46:01.Supporting actor, it is Mahershala Ali as the drug dealer. The sort of

:46:02. > :46:07.drug dealer you never saw, showing such tenderliness and fatherliness.

:46:08. > :46:12.How well deserved is his award? This has become a break-out role for an

:46:13. > :46:16.actor who has a long history of doing stellar pieces of work and

:46:17. > :46:20.we'll talk about the Oscars so white thing. None of these awards have

:46:21. > :46:24.come quickly or easily for a lot of this talent. For lots of audiences

:46:25. > :46:31.it might be the first time they have seen Mahershala Ali. They may have

:46:32. > :46:36.seen him in The Hunger Games or House Of Cards. This is an actor who

:46:37. > :46:43.is at the top of his game being recognised. He was in another Best

:46:44. > :46:48.Picture nominee Hidden Figures. That's right. He is someone who the

:46:49. > :46:52.whole industry is becoming more aware of and audiences and he is an

:46:53. > :46:56.incredibly graceful actor. He is a black Muslim and he lends a really

:46:57. > :46:59.important voice at a time like now which is someone, people listen to

:47:00. > :47:05.Mahershala Ali because he is articulate. He's wise and I think we

:47:06. > :47:09.need that voice in the world. In his acceptance speech, he was pretty

:47:10. > :47:13.low-key. He did say wow and then he went on to thank his teachers

:47:14. > :47:17.through acting school who had talked to him about, it's not about you,

:47:18. > :47:21.it's always about the characters. That's right. That's right. There

:47:22. > :47:26.weren't that many speeches about Donald Trump in the end. People kept

:47:27. > :47:31.it more personal. Let's talk about Viola Davis then. Best Supporting

:47:32. > :47:40.Actress. The third time of asking, but now she is the first black

:47:41. > :47:46.actress to have a tomby and emmy and an Oscar? Now she is the supporting

:47:47. > :47:50.actor for Fences. It is a great performance one opposite of Denzel

:47:51. > :47:54.Washington. Different for the camera. People have found the acting

:47:55. > :48:00.in Fences to be a little big compared to the dial down intimacy

:48:01. > :48:04.of Moonlight. I love listening to August Wilson's words. I loved her

:48:05. > :48:10.performance in it as this very strong woman who comes out of the

:48:11. > :48:18.shadow of this very domineering man. No one else cries like her and gets

:48:19. > :48:22.the snot running down her nose! They don't teach that at RADA. What she

:48:23. > :48:26.has done is seized this opportunity because, I mean, in many senses she

:48:27. > :48:32.is the kind of legal role in this film. Well, she sort of ends up

:48:33. > :48:37.overshadowing him. Yes. She would have had a good chance of winning in

:48:38. > :48:42.the main category as well. There is something interesting when you look

:48:43. > :48:45.at the kind of racial categorizations that people get

:48:46. > :48:50.into. The supporting actors you often find are quite diverse, but

:48:51. > :49:00.often the lead actors, it is like a slightly gated community. I kind of

:49:01. > :49:04.feel the same. I think Hidden Figures should have been on the best

:49:05. > :49:09.Lead Actress Role, but I'm interested in the supporting and the

:49:10. > :49:16.lead actors. There were three actresses of colour in that with

:49:17. > :49:21.Naomi Harris as well and in the main competition, it was Natalie Portman.

:49:22. > :49:27.I think Viola Davis is one of the great actresses now, I think, you

:49:28. > :49:32.know, she is almost like a Meryl Streep figure from now on, if she's

:49:33. > :49:39.in a film, you know, she is nailed on for a nomination. She is so good

:49:40. > :49:44.and her speech was so passionate as well, both of those, Mahershala Ali

:49:45. > :49:49.and Viola Davis' acceptance speeches were personal. They seethed with

:49:50. > :49:53.frustration and achievement and by the delivery of their performances

:49:54. > :49:57.you could sense the anger. There was more anger in the dignity. People

:49:58. > :50:03.will ask if those two awards for example are a reaction, a response

:50:04. > :50:07.to last year's Oscars So White controversy, but actually both these

:50:08. > :50:13.films were in production before that, weren't they? That's the whole

:50:14. > :50:18.myth with that whole thing. Suddenly everything has got woke and now they

:50:19. > :50:22.are ticking the right box. We know Viola Davis has been working for

:50:23. > :50:26.years. There is a long history to make a piece of work like that for

:50:27. > :50:31.the screenment however, I think political pressure clearly has a

:50:32. > :50:34.point in raising the questions. And changes in the academy members as

:50:35. > :50:38.well That's right. That's right. I think those academy members. They

:50:39. > :50:42.are exceptional pieces of work. They wouldn't be up there, if they

:50:43. > :50:46.weren't, but I think there is a another seriousness within which

:50:47. > :50:49.that work gets seen and spoken about because there is this conversation

:50:50. > :50:55.that's happening amongst the audience. I think a few years ago a

:50:56. > :50:59.film like Moonlight might have won an indy spirit award, but to go all

:51:00. > :51:05.the way and steal the biggest moment of all that there is that's a sea

:51:06. > :51:10.change in attitude in the voting body to recognise and see that

:51:11. > :51:14.through and that's exciting. Moonlight is a film we have never

:51:15. > :51:17.seen before in many ways. You needed people to say, "I'm going to vote

:51:18. > :51:21.for this." It needed to be pushed through. I think Moonlight would

:51:22. > :51:25.have done it on its own. This is a film, we were saying earlier, it is

:51:26. > :51:28.a very, it is a film like America, mainstream America, hasn't really

:51:29. > :51:33.seen before. I think it is because it has this increditble weight and

:51:34. > :51:40.power. I think it would have risen up. I think you're right we might

:51:41. > :51:44.not have spoken about it as much. Voters would have thought twice

:51:45. > :51:48.about the politically mat. It may have changed when Donald Trump came

:51:49. > :51:53.in. That may have changed the vote towards it. People are thinking,

:51:54. > :52:02."I'm going to make a statement in my vote." Let's talk about Casey

:52:03. > :52:07.Affleck winning Best Actor for Manchester By The Sea, he is a grief

:52:08. > :52:09.stricken January for. He goes back to his hometown which he tried to

:52:10. > :52:12.leave behind for various reasons which are explained in the film to

:52:13. > :52:19.look after his nephew after his brother dies. Is he the right winner

:52:20. > :52:25.in this category? Denzel Washington again. It was a strong performance

:52:26. > :52:31.from Casey Affleck. I found the film mannered in its treatment of

:52:32. > :52:35.realism. He got a screenplay award for the writer as well. I didn't

:52:36. > :52:40.fall in love with this film. I found it very frozen. What about his

:52:41. > :52:44.performance? I found it difficult to warm to that performance. He smiles

:52:45. > :52:55.a bit at the end. It didn't really do it for me. Yeah. I feel the same.

:52:56. > :52:58.I love Kenneth Lonagan's work, but I feel the same. I have seen Casey

:52:59. > :53:03.Affleck do this before. I feel like the film doesn't go far enough its

:53:04. > :53:07.exploration of grief. I think it is very good, the actor is brilliant

:53:08. > :53:15.and I don't think this is his Best Film. Right. Let's talk about Emma

:53:16. > :53:19.Stone winning Best Actress and Damien Chazelle winning Best

:53:20. > :53:25.Director. He is 32 for goodness sake! Emma Stone first of all.

:53:26. > :53:31.Correct winner? I think, Hollywood likes to anoint new stars

:53:32. > :53:38.particularly in the female category. They don't go for the tried and the

:53:39. > :53:43.tested. It's a good thing and it's a bad thing. It means that you're used

:53:44. > :53:47.up a bit quickly by the Hollywood machine. Emma Stone worked her

:53:48. > :53:51.career really well. She worked with Woody Allen for a couple of films

:53:52. > :53:56.and that increased her performance. It is a Woody Allen performance.

:53:57. > :54:00.What's amazing about her, she was crippled with shyness and anxiety as

:54:01. > :54:04.a young girl and a way to get over that was to join an acting class and

:54:05. > :54:09.now look at her. Astonishing, what did you think of the way she

:54:10. > :54:14.performed as Mia in La La Land? I'm on the side of the people who went

:54:15. > :54:18.to see the film and went, "What? Really?" So I'm not, I'm not a great

:54:19. > :54:23.lover of the film. I love the ambition of the film. I love the

:54:24. > :54:28.landscape, I'm a huge fan of musicals. I really like Emma Stone.

:54:29. > :54:32.I think this is a light role. I don't think she was given enough to

:54:33. > :54:38.do actually. The role is quite hard. It is difficult. Particularly with

:54:39. > :54:42.Ryan Gosling's, he lost to Casey Affleck who is doing grief. I think

:54:43. > :54:47.light comedy is hard to play and it is hard to win awards with. I think

:54:48. > :54:50.she is adorable and I hope we will see more of her and in a lot of

:54:51. > :55:00.tougher roles and let's see what she is made of. Best Foreign Language

:55:01. > :55:11.film The Salesman Salesman was the winner. The winner was protesting at

:55:12. > :55:17.Donald Trump's travel ban. A statement was read on his behalf

:55:18. > :55:22.saying, "I'm sorry I'm not with you. My absence is out of respect for my

:55:23. > :55:26.country, Iran and those of other nations what are disrespected by the

:55:27. > :55:29.law that bans immigrants to the US." That was one of the most political

:55:30. > :55:37.statements of the evening. What's the film like? Oh, the film is very

:55:38. > :55:42.good. It was a death of a salesman. He's very good at capturing a sort

:55:43. > :55:47.of area of Iranian society that we have never really seen before.

:55:48. > :55:53.Foreigners don't know about at all. It is a sophisticated middle-class

:55:54. > :56:03.Iran. He does Tehran and its middle classes. It I think he is an

:56:04. > :56:12.excellent film-maker. Thank you both very much.

:56:13. > :56:19.Social media was buzzing with news of that Best Picture mistake. Some

:56:20. > :56:24.of the tweets, Billy Crystal tweeted, "He wished election day

:56:25. > :56:27.ended this way." Lots of people drew comparisons with what happened in

:56:28. > :56:33.2015 at the Miss Universe competition. Steve Harvey announced

:56:34. > :56:46.the wrong winner. Miss Universe tweeted maybe they could help.

:56:47. > :56:50.Seth MacFarlane brought it back to politics.

:56:51. > :56:55.An incredible night maybe for the wrong reasons even though it was

:56:56. > :56:57.hilarious to see such incompetence. Thank you for watching this Oscars

:56:58. > :57:11.special. Good morning.

:57:12. > :57:18.Well, we have got quite a mixture of weather today. Our Weather Watchers

:57:19. > :57:23.pictures show that nicely. This one taken in Roybridge. Quite a bit of

:57:24. > :57:27.cloud in Norfolk and windy too. As we head into Greater London, we had

:57:28. > :57:31.a cloudy start. Still cloudy at the moment and we're looking at a

:57:32. > :57:35.showery day. We have got the ex-storm Ewan here. Really just the

:57:36. > :57:38.remnants now. That produced strong winds across the Northern Isles this

:57:39. > :57:41.morning, but it is dragging in colder air and it will remain windy

:57:42. > :57:46.across the south and also the South East. So the cold air coming around

:57:47. > :57:50.that area of low pressure. Filtering through the course of the day, that

:57:51. > :57:54.bit further south. So increasingly, our showers in the south will be

:57:55. > :57:58.wintry especially so with height. This morning, we have got a bit of

:57:59. > :58:02.dry weather across Scotland, but where we have got the showers, some

:58:03. > :58:07.of those are falling as snow in the west. The same too for Northern

:58:08. > :58:10.Ireland. But we've got a plethora of showers crossing England and Wales

:58:11. > :58:14.this morning. Now, for a time, on the hills in Wales and the

:58:15. > :58:17.south-west, they too will be wintry. Into the afternoon, some drier

:58:18. > :58:21.conditions coming in across parts of Scotland, but in the south, we are

:58:22. > :58:23.expecting snow as indeed we are across Northern England. Something

:58:24. > :58:27.to be aware of if you are travelling. Bright skies and showers

:58:28. > :58:31.across Northern Ireland and for England and Wales, there will be a

:58:32. > :58:37.lot of showers crossing again as the cold air cuts in, don't forget some

:58:38. > :58:40.of those will be wintry and some will merge, but some of us will miss

:58:41. > :58:45.them because at the end of the day, they are showers. Through this

:58:46. > :58:48.evening and overnight, we hang on to the showersment still some

:58:49. > :58:52.wintriness in them. There is a greater risk of ice this evening and

:58:53. > :58:58.overnight. The temperatures in towns and cities around about freezing. In

:58:59. > :59:01.the rural parts of the UK, you can expect them to be lower than that.

:59:02. > :59:06.Tomorrow, we lose our front from the South East. But we've got ex-storm

:59:07. > :59:10.Ewan, low pressure by then coming in across the north-west. Windy across

:59:11. > :59:13.the south-western flank and that's going to blow in a lot of showers

:59:14. > :59:16.across Northern England and North Wales. Again with height. Some of

:59:17. > :59:20.those will be of snow, possibly at lower levels we could see sleet.

:59:21. > :59:26.Here is the remnants of the front in the north still producing showers,

:59:27. > :59:28.but in between, some brighter skies, but feeling cold, temperatures

:59:29. > :59:32.between seven and nine Celsius. As we move from Tuesday and into

:59:33. > :59:35.Wednesday, well, there goes our system, moving off into the near

:59:36. > :59:39.Continent, a ridge of high pressure builds in behind and then we've got

:59:40. > :59:42.more fronts coming across Southern England. For many of us on

:59:43. > :59:46.Wednesday, it will be a dry day. You might catch the odd shower, but you

:59:47. > :59:49.can see too we've got the rain moving across the south and by then

:59:50. > :59:58.milder conditions into the south, but still pretty cool in the north.

:59:59. > :00:05.It's Monday. I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

:00:06. > :00:14.The independent inquiry into child sex ulg abuse finally holds its

:00:15. > :00:19.first public hearings. I thought the idea of being flogged

:00:20. > :00:25.in the middle of the night by a sadistic drunken cottage mother with

:00:26. > :00:29.an ironing cord was the norm. This this inquiry is capable of opening

:00:30. > :00:33.some of that truth then that's a good thing.

:00:34. > :00:35.And that inquiry begins at 1030 and we'll bring

:00:36. > :00:43.An Oscars moment to rank among the most infamous in history.

:00:44. > :00:45.La La Land was mistakenly named as best picture.

:00:46. > :01:07.But minutes later the honour was given to Moonlight.

:01:08. > :01:09.Thousands of patients are feared to have been harmed after the NHS

:01:10. > :01:12.mislaid more than half a million pieces of confidential

:01:13. > :01:13.medical correspondence, including cancer test results

:01:14. > :01:32.Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:01:33. > :01:34.The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in England

:01:35. > :01:38.public hearings today, more than two and a half

:01:39. > :01:40.years after it was set up by the government.

:01:41. > :01:42.It will begin by examining the mistreatment of British children

:01:43. > :01:45.in care or from poor families who were sent to Australia in the

:01:46. > :01:49.The inquiry will be told that the scale of abuse

:01:50. > :01:51.they suffered was much wider than previously thought.

:01:52. > :01:54.Organisers of this year's Oscars say they're still trying to work out how

:01:55. > :01:56.the ceremony ended in chaos, after the wrong film

:01:57. > :02:00.The Hollywood musical La La Land was mistakenly

:02:01. > :02:04.revealed as the winner, but during the acceptance speeches

:02:05. > :02:06.it was discovered the award should have gone to Moonlight,

:02:07. > :02:09.which is a drama about a gay black youth coming to terms

:02:10. > :02:16.The firm that counts the votes, PriceWaterhouseCoopers,

:02:17. > :02:18.has apologised, saying there was a mix-up with

:02:19. > :02:26.The NHS has mislaid more than half a million items of patients'

:02:27. > :02:27.confidential medical correspondence, including treatment plans

:02:28. > :02:31.The documents, sent between GPs and hospitals over a period

:02:32. > :02:33.of five years, did not reach their recipients

:02:34. > :02:36.because they were mistakenly stored in a warehouse by private company

:02:37. > :02:44.The government is facing calls from Conservative MPs to scrap

:02:45. > :02:47.plans to limit access to a key disability benefit.

:02:48. > :02:49.It's thought changes to the rules on who qualifies for

:02:50. > :02:53.the personal independence payment could affect around 160,000 people.

:02:54. > :02:55.It comes as a key aide to Theresa May said

:02:56. > :03:07.were needed to roll back the bizarre decisions of tribunals.

:03:08. > :03:09.The mobile phone company Nokia is bringing back

:03:10. > :03:11.one of its most famous models, the 3310.

:03:12. > :03:13.The company has struggled to compete in the smartphone era,

:03:14. > :03:17.but it hopes there'll be a demand for a simple phone with a battery

:03:18. > :03:20.The handset was first launched in 2000,

:03:21. > :03:25.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:03:26. > :03:36.Thank you. And thank you to you for your messages on the state of your

:03:37. > :03:39.children's schools. We were talking about this at the start of the

:03:40. > :03:42.programme. Some schools with tightened budgets and others getting

:03:43. > :03:47.more money because of changes in the way the government is funding

:03:48. > :03:52.schools in England. Karen says there are more children in schools which

:03:53. > :03:55.now house children to 18 years of age, so I think the increase is not

:03:56. > :03:59.proportionate to the increasing provision. Matt says how about

:04:00. > :04:04.funding all schoolkids fairly instead of giving some far more than

:04:05. > :04:08.the education budget? And Jonathan says the UK education system is a

:04:09. > :04:12.shambles and a mess and it is only our children who will suffer. I am

:04:13. > :04:16.going to home due to my kids once they have finished primary school.

:04:17. > :04:21.Reyes says I know a lot of school funding is wasted. Schools need to

:04:22. > :04:27.be much more careful in the way they set their budgets. I believe schools

:04:28. > :04:29.could still operate efficiently and effectively on less money and pupils

:04:30. > :04:34.could still reach their full potential of the budget is not

:04:35. > :04:38.wasted. Thank you for those and keep getting in touch. You are very

:04:39. > :04:43.welcome, as you know. Text messages are charged at the standard network

:04:44. > :04:46.rate. Jessica is back now with the sport. Starting with football.

:04:47. > :04:48.Manchester United have won their first piece

:04:49. > :04:51.silverware of the season, clinching the EFL Cup after a 3-2

:04:52. > :04:55.The Saints were the better side for long periods of the game,

:04:56. > :04:57.and in fact they had a goal disallowed early on.

:04:58. > :05:04.Zlatan Ibrahimovic put United 1-0 up.

:05:05. > :05:06.Just after the break, Southampton levelled the game at 2-2

:05:07. > :05:17.Who else but Ibrahimovic to score the winner

:05:18. > :05:22.It's caused manager Jose Mourniho to call for help from the club's

:05:23. > :05:26.fans, to ensure Ibrahimovic stays another season at the club.

:05:27. > :05:39.I don't beg for players but if needed I think maybe United fans can

:05:40. > :05:46.go to the door of his house and stay there, and stay there all night if

:05:47. > :05:52.needed. I think they will go Fish oil. It is a big disappointment of

:05:53. > :05:59.course. Today, it was a quality game.

:06:00. > :06:07.A third hat trick in 9 games for Tottenham striker Harry Kane

:06:08. > :06:10.helped his side to a 4-0 win over Stoke, and move them up to second

:06:11. > :06:14.Kane completed his treble in just 23 minutes in the first half,

:06:15. > :06:21.as Spurs made it 8 wins in a row at White Hart Lane.

:06:22. > :06:23.It's led manager Pochettino to describe the striker

:06:24. > :06:27.England's rugby union head coach Eddie Jones,

:06:28. > :06:29.never shy of speaking his mind, has criticised Italy's

:06:30. > :06:31.tactics against his side in their Six Nations match.

:06:32. > :06:34.Jones says Italy's decision not to compete

:06:35. > :06:39.England were left bamboozled by Italy's approach,

:06:40. > :06:44.as they slumped to 10-5 down at half time.

:06:45. > :06:48.But five second-half tries ensured England were not left horribly

:06:49. > :06:57.17 wins on the bounce for England, but Jones was not impressed.

:06:58. > :07:05.Well, it wasn't rugby. Let's face the facts. You've got to have an

:07:06. > :07:08.offside line to play the game. Italy was smart and congratulations to

:07:09. > :07:11.their coaching staff and the players, they executed that and

:07:12. > :07:15.played brilliantly but it wasn't rugby. If I was a BBC will be asking

:07:16. > :07:18.the RFU for their money back because you haven't had a rugby game. We

:07:19. > :07:26.will have to go outside and train now so you get some proper rugby.

:07:27. > :07:28.European Championship silver medallist and 2012

:07:29. > :07:29.Olympian Roberto Pavoni has retired from swimming.

:07:30. > :07:32.He came second in the 400m individual medley in the 2014

:07:33. > :07:34.European Championships in Berlin, also taking bronze in

:07:35. > :07:40.Pavoni will now take up a career in coaching in the sport.

:07:41. > :07:46.That is all the sport for now and I will be back with the headlines at

:07:47. > :07:52.10:30am. Thank you. Welcome to the programme.

:07:53. > :07:55.The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in England

:07:56. > :08:02.and Wales is finally about to begin its first

:08:03. > :08:04.public hearings today - in about 20 minutes in fact -

:08:05. > :08:07.two and a half years after it was set up.

:08:08. > :08:10.It is expected to take five years to complete and is a really

:08:11. > :08:11.far-reaching inquiry looking into historic child

:08:12. > :08:13.abuse in institutions like the Catholic Church

:08:14. > :08:16.It begins today with an investigation of the appalling

:08:17. > :08:19.treatment of thousands of British children who were sent to Australia

:08:20. > :08:24.Many were orphans with hopes of a new life.

:08:25. > :08:27.The BBC has been told the inquiry will hear new evidence

:08:28. > :08:30.about the scale of what went on and the claim

:08:31. > :08:35.A key witness in the inquiry will be David Hill, the former head

:08:36. > :08:41.He was sent from Britain to Australia as a child

:08:42. > :08:43.to one of the schools run by the Fairbridge Society,

:08:44. > :08:49.Our correspondent Tom Symonds met him and took him back

:08:50. > :08:51.to the shipping port of Tilbury, where 58 years ago,

:08:52. > :08:58.We arrived here on a bleak April day.

:08:59. > :09:07.And we had never seen anything like it.

:09:08. > :09:10.We had been sold the idea that we were going to the land

:09:11. > :09:19.of milk and honey, that we came from a very poor family,

:09:20. > :09:27.as most of the child migrants did, and up to that point they bought us

:09:28. > :09:30.new wardrobes of clothes, and we were in the state cabin

:09:31. > :09:31.with five-course lunches and six-course dinners.

:09:32. > :09:35.We thought, well, we've signed up for the right scheme.

:09:36. > :09:37.And it wasn't until we reached Sydney that the thud

:09:38. > :09:41.Our lovely wardrobes that we were given here

:09:42. > :09:44.in England were taken from us, and we were issued with hard

:09:45. > :09:52.The kids were all running around midwinter barefoot on the farm.

:09:53. > :09:54.They looked terrible, because the kids cut

:09:55. > :10:01.Those kids would have gone through life with nobody ever putting

:10:02. > :10:07.giving them comfort, and nurturing, and support, and encouragement.

:10:08. > :10:10.They were the most vulnerable, they were the least protected,

:10:11. > :10:15.And lucky of all, most of all, because my mum

:10:16. > :10:17.Those kids never saw their mums again.

:10:18. > :10:20.They thought the idea of being flogged in the middle

:10:21. > :10:22.of the night by a sadistic drunken cottage mother with an ironing

:10:23. > :10:28.What is your estimate of the number of children affected by some

:10:29. > :10:34.I put the figure at over 60% of the kids that went to Fairbridge

:10:35. > :10:42.60%, and I think if you look at the conditions that prevailed

:10:43. > :10:45.in the other child migrant institutions I'd be staggered

:10:46. > :10:48.if the figure isn't equally high, or even higher, in some

:10:49. > :10:50.of the Catholic boys homes in Western Australia.

:10:51. > :10:52.People will say these were different times,

:10:53. > :10:54.we didn't know what we know now about child development,

:10:55. > :10:57.things were not managed well, is that an excuse?

:10:58. > :11:04.If you go back to the 1950s, the British government sent

:11:05. > :11:14.And they report back and the British government,

:11:15. > :11:20.using standards that prevailed in the 1950s, drew up

:11:21. > :11:23.what they called a blacklist and put Fairbridge farm and other child

:11:24. > :11:24.migrant institutions on the blacklist, defined them

:11:25. > :11:31.The British government not only continued to approve

:11:32. > :11:34.children to be sent, but financially

:11:35. > :11:39.I'm surprised how vulnerable it has made me feel.

:11:40. > :11:53.And to happen to the extent that it did.

:11:54. > :11:56.This is an enquiry that has been quite bitterly condemned for failing

:11:57. > :11:59.to do anything in the view of some people for two and a half years.

:12:00. > :12:03.This is the first time it will have public hearings about the subject

:12:04. > :12:09.From my point of view, only good can come of it.

:12:10. > :12:18.It seems to me that the greater the evil, the stronger

:12:19. > :12:25.the conspiracy to keep it a secret and keep it covered up,

:12:26. > :12:28.so if this enquiry is capable of opening some of that truth,

:12:29. > :12:42.It is almost unbelievable, isn't it? We can speak now to Clifford Walsh,

:12:43. > :12:47.who experienced sexual abuse when he was sent from London to live at a

:12:48. > :12:51.Catholic institution in Australia. Margaret Humphreys is also with us,

:12:52. > :12:55.the director of the child migrants trust. She has dedicated her life to

:12:56. > :12:59.reuniting lost migrant children with their families. I know you are about

:13:00. > :13:05.to go into the inquiry, Margaret, so I will talk to you first, if I may?

:13:06. > :13:15.And Clifford I will be with you in a moment. Tell us what work you have

:13:16. > :13:18.done to try to bring these former children back with their families. I

:13:19. > :13:22.would like to state straightaway that these children were not

:13:23. > :13:27.orphans. They had mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters.

:13:28. > :13:33.Over the years that has been part of the myth. They are not orphans. I

:13:34. > :13:39.would like to make that really clear to your viewers. We have spent 30

:13:40. > :13:41.years bringing child migrants home to meet their mothers, their

:13:42. > :13:48.fathers, their families and communities. In the early days, 25

:13:49. > :13:54.or 30 years ago, we used to bring one person home at a time. These

:13:55. > :14:00.were former child migrants, some of whom left here when they were four

:14:01. > :14:06.or five years of age. Over the next few weeks we are going to hear the

:14:07. > :14:15.most horrific stories of their times in these residential institutions

:14:16. > :14:20.overseas. Even with orphans, it seems hard to justify this policy

:14:21. > :14:31.back then. But you are saying they were not orphans. So what on earth

:14:32. > :14:36.was the rationale? I think hopefully the inquiry is going to explore this

:14:37. > :14:44.with people and look at the policy, look at what happened to families,

:14:45. > :14:48.to children, and particularly the emphasis on this really important

:14:49. > :14:54.inquiry. It has taken as 30 years to get this inquiry. Some of those

:14:55. > :14:57.questions have got to be answered. I know you have got to go that

:14:58. > :15:05.anything I can ask one more question, if I may. -- but I think I

:15:06. > :15:09.can ask you one more question. Can you give us examples of the cruelty

:15:10. > :15:14.some of these children were subjected to? Perhaps I can answer

:15:15. > :15:18.it best this way. This week we are going to hear from the child

:15:19. > :15:22.migrants. For the first time in the history of child migration. And we

:15:23. > :15:26.have got a long history of treating our children like this. We are going

:15:27. > :15:33.to hear their voices for the first time. And I would just say let's

:15:34. > :15:36.pause and listen to them. Just for a moment. We will get an idea of what

:15:37. > :15:42.happened to them, what happened to their families. It is going to be

:15:43. > :15:46.hard. It is going to be very hard for us to hear it, but we must

:15:47. > :15:55.listen and we must hear it and we must learn the lessons.

:15:56. > :16:01.Clifford Walsh, thank you for joining us from Australia. You're

:16:02. > :16:04.welcome. You were told, I think, Clifford, that your parents were

:16:05. > :16:13.dead, but that wasn't true? No, not at all. I had a mother. My father,

:16:14. > :16:20.of course, died in the war. And I went through life thinking that I

:16:21. > :16:24.had no parents and it wasn't until Margaret Humphreys came on the scene

:16:25. > :16:27.that I found out I still had a mother and I finally met her when I

:16:28. > :16:32.was 50. Wow, you were nine then, when you stepped off the ship from

:16:33. > :16:40.London. That's right. What did you think was going on? Well, I was

:16:41. > :16:45.basically looking forward to it because they made all these

:16:46. > :16:50.wonderful promises of how great things were in Australia. I was a

:16:51. > :16:57.bit naive because someone in England said that in Australia there was 100

:16:58. > :17:02.sheep for every person so when we got to the wall at Freemantle, I

:17:03. > :17:10.sort of half hoped I'd see 100 sheep waiting for me, but that didn't

:17:11. > :17:18.materialise. I didn't realise they only outnumbered us 100-1. We were

:17:19. > :17:23.sent to two days quarantine. Until this point, I had every faith in

:17:24. > :17:31.adults, but it quickly diminished after that. After I was flogged on

:17:32. > :17:38.the second day I was there because myself and another boy couldn't

:17:39. > :17:44.carry a crowbar three miles in the desired time. It was just too heavy

:17:45. > :17:50.for us. And we were beaten within an inch you are our lives and then he

:17:51. > :17:58.sat us on his knee and said I don't like to hit boys because it hurts

:17:59. > :18:02.me, you know. What a load of rubbish that was because I was sure he

:18:03. > :18:09.enjoyed it. I never saw a man beat children more than he did. This was

:18:10. > :18:14.the Catholic institution... Yes, he was a clishian Brother. And you were

:18:15. > :18:22.also sexually abused at that place as well? At least 30 times. Wow.

:18:23. > :18:30.Five by one person and at least 25 by a person who was in charge of me

:18:31. > :18:36.for a few months. It wasn't until he tried to rape me or half succeeded

:18:37. > :18:46.in raping me and I was screaming and so forth and he put his old fella in

:18:47. > :18:51.my mouth and evak lated and left gurgling and spluttering for 25

:18:52. > :18:58.minutes that he let me out and I went and I saw the priest in charge,

:18:59. > :19:03.I won't mention his name, and I told him and he then reported it to the

:19:04. > :19:07.principal. The principal called me to his office and he spoke so

:19:08. > :19:12.harshly to me, I thought I was this trouble and I didn't dare say

:19:13. > :19:15.anything about this brother. So I said the priest must have

:19:16. > :19:23.misunderstood what I said and that was the end of that. I was let go

:19:24. > :19:28.mercifully because I thought I was in for another sound thrashing and

:19:29. > :19:35.because I opened my mouth I was shipped off. Can I ask you Clifford,

:19:36. > :19:40.I mean such horrors perpetrated against you as a boy. What impact

:19:41. > :19:46.does that have on you as you're growing up into adult life? Well,

:19:47. > :19:51.for the first 11 years, I joined the Navy and I was very much a loner. I

:19:52. > :19:56.wouldn't trust anybody. And even, even when I got married, I didn't

:19:57. > :20:02.like anybody to touch me, no one to put their arms around me, no one.

:20:03. > :20:07.Male for female and that goes, that still continues today. I don't want

:20:08. > :20:11.anybody to touch me. I don't know how I imagined to have children

:20:12. > :20:18.because I didn't even like my wife to sit next to me and I love her

:20:19. > :20:22.dearly. It's a scandal that this independent inquiry into child sex

:20:23. > :20:28.abuse is going to explore and investigate. Do you think that 60

:20:29. > :20:33.years on, it can get to the heart of why this decision was made to send

:20:34. > :20:43.thousands of British children abroad? Well, it's got to come out

:20:44. > :20:47.because we must see that this can never happen because in the 80s they

:20:48. > :20:51.sent convicts out to Australia, but we didn't steal anything. We didn't

:20:52. > :20:56.commit any crime. Yet we were dumped in a hell that I honestly think was

:20:57. > :21:00.worse on the convicts had. Clifford, thank you very much for

:21:01. > :21:05.talking to us. We appreciate your time and your openness, thank you.

:21:06. > :21:13.You're welcome. Thank you very much, Clifford Walsh.

:21:14. > :21:18.And we will bring you the start of the abuse inquiry at 10.30am.

:21:19. > :21:24.All these British children were isn't abroad for a better life is

:21:25. > :21:28.because some of the former child migrants are nearing the end of

:21:29. > :21:33.their life which is why they're starting the child sex abuse inquiry

:21:34. > :21:42.with this area. We'll bring you the proceedings live just after 10.30am.

:21:43. > :21:44.We'll go back to LA and talk about the mess-up and look at other

:21:45. > :21:49.notorious mix-ups. Is it an insult to disabled people

:21:50. > :21:52.to suggest that those who are, quote, taking pills at home

:21:53. > :21:58.who suffer from anxiety are not, The words were uttered by the head

:21:59. > :22:03.of Theresa May's policy board At issue is who in future should

:22:04. > :22:12.such receive benefits. Benefits tribunals have ruled that

:22:13. > :22:14.ministers should extend the scope of the new personal independence

:22:15. > :22:36.payments to another 160,000 people They are facing a backlash and it is

:22:37. > :22:42.not the first time this Government got into difficulties and suffered

:22:43. > :22:47.grief over curbs to disability benefits. You think about the last

:22:48. > :22:50.Budget of George Osborne when he tried to push through cuts to

:22:51. > :22:54.personal independence payments and Iain Duncan Smith resigned from the

:22:55. > :22:57.Cabinet. It was almost the start of the unravelling of the

:22:58. > :23:01.Cameron-Osborne Government. Well, now there is another head of steam

:23:02. > :23:05.building up following this court ruling which in effect means many,

:23:06. > :23:09.many more people will be able to claim personal independence payments

:23:10. > :23:12.becausically, extending it to people who have mental health issues,

:23:13. > :23:16.people who suffer from dementia or who suffered a stroke or are

:23:17. > :23:20.suffering from schizophrenia and the Government have reacted basically by

:23:21. > :23:26.saying we cannot afford this. It's going to cost nearly ?4 billion by

:23:27. > :23:29.2022 and they sthuk out an announcement saying they were

:23:30. > :23:33.reversing this court ruling. On Thursday, on Friday, on the day of

:23:34. > :23:36.the by-election results when all of us were looking elsewhere, we

:23:37. > :23:42.weren't focussed on this. That has added to the grief and let me read

:23:43. > :23:45.this. This is from the oldest Conservative think-tank the Bow

:23:46. > :23:48.Group, they said, "This is the behaviour that gives the

:23:49. > :23:52.Conservative Party a bad name, attacking the most in need and

:23:53. > :23:57.kicking people when they're down." This morning Heidi Allen had this

:23:58. > :24:04.message for the disabilities minister. If I was in her shoes I

:24:05. > :24:07.would, I think, take the financial hit, say OK, we need to accept this.

:24:08. > :24:11.Now, let's really look at this policy which is something that needs

:24:12. > :24:15.it happen anyway and just review the whole thing from top to bottom and I

:24:16. > :24:18.think in the end if we did that, we'd work hand-in-hand with

:24:19. > :24:22.charities and people who were disabled because they would know

:24:23. > :24:27.we're trying to build a system that works. What added fuel to the fire

:24:28. > :24:31.is the comments by George Freeman who is Mrs May's head of her policy

:24:32. > :24:38.unit. So he is, if you like, her big brains. And over the weekend, he

:24:39. > :24:44.said that the court rulings were bizarre, these were just tweaks to

:24:45. > :24:49.the system, but the most incendiary remarks was when he suggested these

:24:50. > :24:51.people who would get PIPs were not really disabled, they were just

:24:52. > :24:56.people taking pills to help them cope with anxiety. Listen to what he

:24:57. > :25:00.said. Look, the truth on the disability budget is we spend ?50

:25:01. > :25:03.billion a year on disability benefits and what we're trying to

:25:04. > :25:08.make sure is we get them to the right people who are most in need.

:25:09. > :25:14.He didn't mention these tweaks are actually to do with rolling back

:25:15. > :25:17.some bizarre decisions through the tribunals which means that benefits

:25:18. > :25:22.are given to people who take pills at home. We want to make sure we get

:25:23. > :25:27.the money to the really disabled people who need it. He put out a

:25:28. > :25:33.tweet. He says, "Having suffered myself as a child from childhood

:25:34. > :25:43.anxiety and depression, I don't need any lectures on the damage anxiety

:25:44. > :25:46.does." Well, what gives this more resonance, Theresa May made mental

:25:47. > :25:49.health one of her cornerstone issues, remember that speech saying

:25:50. > :25:55.she wanted to end the stigma attached to mental health. Here is a

:25:56. > :25:59.reminder of what she said. This is a historic opportunity to right a

:26:00. > :26:03.wrong and give people deserving of compassion and support the attention

:26:04. > :26:08.and treatment they deserve. And for all of us to change the way we view

:26:09. > :26:12.mental illness so striving to improve mental well-being is seen as

:26:13. > :26:15.just as natural, positive and good as striving to improve our physical

:26:16. > :26:20.well-being. Not that long ago. We've got the

:26:21. > :26:24.Budget on the horizon. Any chance of it, things being changed before

:26:25. > :26:28.then? Well, it's possible because let's be honest, it has happened

:26:29. > :26:31.before. You think of George Osborne backing down over personal

:26:32. > :26:34.independence payments and tax credits so it has happened before.

:26:35. > :26:37.They won't want to back doub, but I think they're in a real jam here

:26:38. > :26:43.because the disability charities are up in arms because they say look, if

:26:44. > :26:48.you suffer from say dementia, you can have as profound problems out

:26:49. > :26:53.and about as if you are blind. So why shouldn't they get this benefit?

:26:54. > :26:58.More than that, the disability tribunals, they went through the

:26:59. > :27:01.cases in real detail and you know, we clearly know increasingly the

:27:02. > :27:05.difficulties people have with mental health issues. So they're under

:27:06. > :27:09.pressure, not just politically, but from the mental health charities and

:27:10. > :27:12.the last thing to say is the Government, before they announced

:27:13. > :27:17.they were going to try and rewrite the rules without anyone noticing,

:27:18. > :27:20.they didn't consult anyone, they didn't consult Parliament or the

:27:21. > :27:26.disclaket charities and they tried to sneak it out, for that and for Mr

:27:27. > :27:28.Freeman's comments, there is a real backlash building up. Thank you,

:27:29. > :27:37.Norman. If you are somebody who takes pills

:27:38. > :27:40.at home for anxiety, get in touch with me. We'd like to get in touch

:27:41. > :27:44.with you. The NHS has mislaid more than half

:27:45. > :27:47.a million items of patients' confidential medical correspondence,

:27:48. > :27:49.including treatment plans The documents, sent between GPs

:27:50. > :27:52.and hospitals over a period of five years, did not

:27:53. > :27:55.reach their recipients because they were mistakenly stored

:27:56. > :28:11.in a warehouse by private company So, where are they? Well, Victoria,

:28:12. > :28:15.NHS England say they have tracked down all these letters now. This was

:28:16. > :28:20.over a period of five years from 2011 to 2016. They were 500,000

:28:21. > :28:24.items of correspondence, spent from hospitals to GPs, telling the GP

:28:25. > :28:28.about where the patient's treatment had got to and what needed to be

:28:29. > :28:31.followed up. They were items which couldn't get to the GP surgery

:28:32. > :28:35.because they were sent back because the patient had moved, in most

:28:36. > :28:39.cases, so this firm were brought in to sort of redirect them to get to

:28:40. > :28:43.the proper Distin nation where the patient was. The trouble is they

:28:44. > :28:47.ended up in a warehouse and that's the nub of the problem. NHS England

:28:48. > :28:55.say they have managed to get hold of them all and follow them all up and

:28:56. > :28:58.the 500,000 has boiled down to 2500 patients whose treatment might have

:28:59. > :29:02.been affected because the GP didn't know the full story and quite a few

:29:03. > :29:06.of the 500,000 were fairly routine bits of correspondence, but it does

:29:07. > :29:10.raise a lot of questions about whether the 200 or more have been

:29:11. > :29:16.seriously affected. Right. And when will we know the answer to that? Who

:29:17. > :29:20.is trying to find out how seriously afeted or otherwise? NHS England say

:29:21. > :29:23.there is no evidence that anyone has been affected of those 2500, but

:29:24. > :29:28.they are still pursuing it. Labour are saying we got wind of this last

:29:29. > :29:33.summer, at the very end of the Parliamentary session, the Health

:29:34. > :29:36.Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, put out a brief statement saying there was a

:29:37. > :29:42.problem with redirecting the correspondence, but we weren't told

:29:43. > :29:46.the 500,000. Labour want to know why has it taken so long for this emerge

:29:47. > :29:48.and what was the full story? Why were they in a warehouse and what

:29:49. > :29:51.was going on and Labour are pushing for answers in the House of Commons

:29:52. > :29:53.so we may yet learn more about this as the day goes on. Thank you very

:29:54. > :30:05.much, Hugh Pym is our health editor. We will cross live shortly to the

:30:06. > :30:09.beginning of the public hearings into the inquiry into child sex

:30:10. > :30:13.abuse. Glyn says, "I have to say I'm fed-up

:30:14. > :30:17.as a disabled person being picked on by the Government. They simply have

:30:18. > :30:22.no idea what they're doing to us. I can't help being disabled and I

:30:23. > :30:27.didn't ask to be like this, but to be targeted by the Government is

:30:28. > :30:29.appalling. It makes me worry about any cuts which has an impact on me

:30:30. > :30:47.and makes my condition worse." Theindependent inquiry into child

:30:48. > :30:49.sexual abuse in England and Wales is holding its first public hearings

:30:50. > :30:52.today, more than two and a half It'll begin by examining

:30:53. > :30:57.the appalling mistreatment of British children many

:30:58. > :31:00.whom were orphans or from poor families, who were sent

:31:01. > :31:02.to Australia in the years The inquiry will be told

:31:03. > :31:06.that the scale of abuse they suffered was much wider

:31:07. > :31:09.than previously thought. Organisers of this year's Oscars say

:31:10. > :31:12.they're still trying to work out how the ceremony ended in chaos,

:31:13. > :31:15.after the wrong film The Hollywood musical

:31:16. > :31:17.La La Land was mistakenly revealed as the winner,

:31:18. > :31:20.but during the acceptance speeches it was discovered the award should

:31:21. > :31:22.have gone to Moonlight, which is a drama about a gay black

:31:23. > :31:25.youth coming to terms The firm that counts the votes,

:31:26. > :31:34.PriceWaterhouseCoopers, has apologised, saying

:31:35. > :31:36.there was a mix-up with The NHS has mislaid more than half

:31:37. > :31:40.a million items of patients' confidential medical correspondence,

:31:41. > :31:46.including treatment plans The government is facing calls

:31:47. > :31:49.from Conservative MPs to scrap plans to limit access

:31:50. > :31:51.to a key disability benefit. It's thought changes to the rules

:31:52. > :31:53.on who qualifies for the personal independence payment

:31:54. > :31:55.could affect around 160,000 people. It comes as a key aide

:31:56. > :31:57.to Theresa May said were needed to roll back the bizarre

:31:58. > :32:01.decisions of tribunals. That's a summary of the latest

:32:02. > :32:04.news, join me for BBC Here's Jessica again now

:32:05. > :32:07.with the sports headlines. Manchester United have picked

:32:08. > :32:09.up their first piece of silverware of the season by beating Southampton

:32:10. > :32:12.to win the EFL Cup. Manager Jose Mourinho has called

:32:13. > :32:14.on fans to camp outside Zlatan Ibrahimovic's house to ensure

:32:15. > :32:17.he stays another season at the club after the striker scored

:32:18. > :32:19.the winner in the 87th minute A third hat trick in nine games

:32:20. > :32:25.for Tottenham striker Harry Kane helped Spurs to a 4-0 win over Stoke

:32:26. > :32:29.that moves them up to second And England head coach Eddie Jones

:32:30. > :32:32.has criticised Italy for their tactics in yesterday's

:32:33. > :32:36.Six Nations match. England came back from 10-5 down,

:32:37. > :33:03.to win 36-15 at Twickenham. A chaotic night at the Oscars. This

:33:04. > :33:05.was the moment Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty made the wrong

:33:06. > :33:12.announcement when they were given the wrong envelope.

:33:13. > :33:36.Moonlight, you guys won best picture.

:33:37. > :33:50.I'm afraid they read the wrong thing. This is not a joke. Moonlight

:33:51. > :33:55.has won best picture. Moonlight, best picture.

:33:56. > :34:07.Let's go live to LA now and we can talk to Sandro Monetti, a British

:34:08. > :34:17.The inquest is beginning. The mother of all mix-ups. Rain has been

:34:18. > :34:23.accepted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, who for 83 years have tabulated the

:34:24. > :34:31.results and prepared the envelopes. -- blame has been accepted. Don't

:34:32. > :34:34.bet on getting another year, PwC! Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty were

:34:35. > :34:37.handed the wrong envelope. There are duplicates backstage and they had

:34:38. > :34:42.been handed the envelope for best actress, which was Emma Stone, La La

:34:43. > :34:46.Land. Warren Beatty seems to realise the mistake and Faye Dunaway looks

:34:47. > :34:55.over, sees La La Land, calls it out, and she has disappeared and has not

:34:56. > :34:56.been seen since and she wouldn't comment at the after party. Now

:34:57. > :35:01.there is a lot of finger-pointing. And whoever mixed up the envelopes,

:35:02. > :35:06.I don't fancy their future employment chances! But it means he

:35:07. > :35:09.will never ever forget who won best picture at this year's Oscars

:35:10. > :35:15.ceremony. Some people can't even remember who won last year! And

:35:16. > :35:19.Jordan Horrowitz, the producer of La La Land, who took charge of the

:35:20. > :35:23.whole thing, maybe he should produce the Oscars next year because he

:35:24. > :35:26.seems to know what he is doing! He rescued it and handed it to

:35:27. > :35:32.Moonlight. I thought I had seen it all covering Hollywood but this was

:35:33. > :35:35.a first. What a total fiasco. The Oscars are hugely enjoyable and now

:35:36. > :35:43.they are covered in huge embarrassment. What a mess but what

:35:44. > :35:46.a laugh! We will probably interrupted our conversation as we

:35:47. > :35:50.go to a live event here in the UK. Why do you think Warren Beatty just

:35:51. > :35:55.handed that envelope to Faye Dunaway instead of saying, hang on, this

:35:56. > :35:59.isn't right? And conferring with the host, Jimmy Kimmel? He knew there

:36:00. > :36:08.was an issue so why didn't he say something? They were celebrating the

:36:09. > :36:13.50th anniversary of Bonnie and Clyde. They are still causing chaos

:36:14. > :36:19.50 years later obviously. Who knows? That is the big question. What was

:36:20. > :36:23.going on in Warren Beatty's mind? He is being destroyed on social media.

:36:24. > :36:30.Faye Dunaway was the one who read it out, not him, but he explained that

:36:31. > :36:36.he had that momentary pause... We have got to interrupted. Thank you

:36:37. > :36:40.very much. We are pausing there to go live to the inquiry, the

:36:41. > :36:50.Independent inquiry into child sex abuse, which is just about to begin.

:36:51. > :36:57.This is the chair. Finishing next Friday, the 10th of March, 2017. The

:36:58. > :37:01.case study into child migration programmes is a part of the

:37:02. > :37:09.inquiry's wide investigation into institutional failures in connection

:37:10. > :37:12.with the abuse of children outside of the United Kingdom. This is an

:37:13. > :37:16.important day for the work of the inquiry and for the core

:37:17. > :37:23.participants and witnesses taking part in this case study. Today marks

:37:24. > :37:26.not only the first day of this hearing on child migration

:37:27. > :37:33.programmes, but the opening of the first public hearing in which the

:37:34. > :37:37.inquiry will hear live and read evidence from complainants and their

:37:38. > :37:44.experiences of sexual abuse. As you all know, the task of the chair and

:37:45. > :37:49.panel of the inquiry is to examine the extent to which public and

:37:50. > :37:54.private institutions in England and Wales have failed to protect

:37:55. > :37:57.children from sexual abuse in the past and for us to make meaningful

:37:58. > :38:03.recommendations to keep children safe today and in the future. The

:38:04. > :38:12.definition and scope of this case study was published on the inquiry

:38:13. > :38:17.website in May 20 16. To fulfil our task, the inquiry will hold two

:38:18. > :38:24.hearings in the child migration case study during 2017. This hearing,

:38:25. > :38:29.known as the part one hearing, will provide an introduction to the

:38:30. > :38:31.history of the child migration programmes and the institutions

:38:32. > :38:35.involved and the nature of the allegations of sexual abuse that

:38:36. > :38:44.have been made by former child migrants. The part two hearings will

:38:45. > :38:49.commence on the 10th of July 2017 and will focus on whether

:38:50. > :38:54.institutions based in England and Wales took sufficient care to

:38:55. > :38:57.protect children in the migration programmes and the response of those

:38:58. > :39:04.institutions to the alleged sexual abuse of child migrants. The

:39:05. > :39:11.inquiry's broader programme of work was published in its December 2016

:39:12. > :39:15.report. The two hearings in the child migration case study are part

:39:16. > :39:22.of a full timetable of substantive hearings and seminars and a number

:39:23. > :39:31.of investigations which will be held in 2017 and into 2018. As part of

:39:32. > :39:34.this case study, as in all investigations, the inquiry

:39:35. > :39:38.continues to receive and review very large volumes of evidence relating

:39:39. > :39:42.to sexual abuse and institutional responses to it. And you will hear

:39:43. > :39:49.more detail on the evidence shortly from counsel. To all the core

:39:50. > :39:52.participants and their legal teams, we thank you for the hard work you

:39:53. > :39:59.have done in preparing for this hearing. And for the ongoing work

:40:00. > :40:02.involved in this case study. To the former child migrants who will give

:40:03. > :40:07.evidence before the inquiry during these hearings, and to those who

:40:08. > :40:13.have given written testimony, we are grateful for your courage in coming

:40:14. > :40:17.forward to be a witness. We are conscious of the great challenges

:40:18. > :40:25.that many of you have encountered as a result of your experiences as

:40:26. > :40:28.children. I want to ensure you of the high priority the inquiry places

:40:29. > :40:34.on case study and on hearing your experiences. We thank those of you

:40:35. > :40:41.who have travelled long distances in order to testify before us. I would

:40:42. > :40:45.now like to introduce the core participants and where appropriate

:40:46. > :40:56.their representatives as follows. Counsel for the child migrants

:40:57. > :41:09.trust. Counsel for the participant Oliver Cosgrove, Mr Imran Khan. Core

:41:10. > :41:14.participant Mr David Hill. Counsel for Barnardos, Mr Stephen Ford QC.

:41:15. > :41:26.Counsel for the sisters of Nazareth, Mr Bilal Croat. Counsel for the

:41:27. > :41:32.Catholic counsel, Kate gathered QC. Counsel for the Secretary of State

:41:33. > :41:37.for Health, Samantha Lewthwaite QC. Good morning to everybody and

:41:38. > :41:42.welcome to this hearing. Before we hear from counsel, a couple of

:41:43. > :41:47.points on practical arrangements. We will sit each day from 10:30am

:41:48. > :41:52.except on the days we are hearing evidence by video link from the east

:41:53. > :41:59.coast of Australia. Then we will start early at 8am. Those days are

:42:00. > :42:06.day six, the 7th of March, and day seven, the 8th of March. Ordinarily,

:42:07. > :42:12.we will take a 15 minute break at around 11:45am. On days when we are

:42:13. > :42:17.sitting early, we may take an early break during the morning. We will

:42:18. > :42:24.break for lunch at one o'clock, returning at 2 o'clock. We intend to

:42:25. > :42:29.sit until around 4 o'clock each day. By way of an agenda, we rely on the

:42:30. > :42:35.hearing timetable which sets out the order in which witnesses will be

:42:36. > :42:39.called. The hearing transcript is recorded simultaneously on screens

:42:40. > :42:47.throughout the room and will be published at the end of each date on

:42:48. > :42:51.the inquiry website. Any directions arising from the day's hearing will

:42:52. > :42:56.also be published on the website. As you will hear in more detail from

:42:57. > :43:02.counsel, there are anonymity arrangements in place for witnesses.

:43:03. > :43:05.Ciphering and reductions have also been used in relation to the

:43:06. > :43:10.evidence in accordance with the inquiry's redaction protocol and

:43:11. > :43:15.restriction order, both of which are available on the website. If there

:43:16. > :43:19.is any inadvertent breach of a restriction order, I would ask that

:43:20. > :43:21.the simultaneous recording be stopped momentarily so that the

:43:22. > :43:28.issue can be addressed as appropriate. I now invite leading

:43:29. > :43:33.counsel to the inquiry in relation to the case study on child migration

:43:34. > :43:40.programmes Henrietta Hild QC to address the panel. Please go ahead.

:43:41. > :43:49.Thank you, chair and members of the panel. I appear to date with junior

:43:50. > :43:54.counsel of this case study, and Paul Davison are also working on this

:43:55. > :43:58.case study but are not present at the case today. Chair, on opening

:43:59. > :44:01.the proceedings of the half of the inquiry I would like to first of all

:44:02. > :44:05.explain the scope and purpose of the case study, secondly provide an

:44:06. > :44:09.overview of the child migration schemes, thirdly summarise the

:44:10. > :44:12.evidence we anticipate he will hear during the case study, and finally

:44:13. > :44:17.remind everybody of some logistical issues in respect of the witnesses.

:44:18. > :44:22.Turning first to the scope and purpose of this case study. This

:44:23. > :44:25.case study, as you have said, is part of the inquiry's protection of

:44:26. > :44:30.children outside the UK investigation. That investigation

:44:31. > :44:34.seeks to explore the extent to which institutions and organisations based

:44:35. > :44:37.in England and Wales have taken seriously their responsibilities to

:44:38. > :44:42.protect older outside of the United Kingdom from sexual abuse. The

:44:43. > :44:46.inquiry has decided to divide that broad investigation into a number of

:44:47. > :44:50.narrow case studies, of which this case study on the child migration

:44:51. > :44:56.programmes is the first. In summary, you and the panel will hear that the

:44:57. > :45:01.child migration programmes were large-scale schemes in which

:45:02. > :45:04.thousands of children, many of them vulnerable, poor, abandoned,

:45:05. > :45:09.illegitimate or in the care of the state, were systematically and

:45:10. > :45:13.permanently migrated to remote parts of the British Empire by various

:45:14. > :45:16.institutions in England and Wales and with the knowledge and approval

:45:17. > :45:17.of the British government. Many allegations of sexual abuse have

:45:18. > :45:29.been made by former child migrants. First whether Government

:45:30. > :45:32.departments, public authorities, private and or charitable

:45:33. > :45:36.institutions based in England and Wales, took sufficient care to

:45:37. > :45:40.protect those children involved in child migration programmes. Second,

:45:41. > :45:45.the extent to which those same bodies were aware or should have

:45:46. > :45:48.been aware of allegations of evidence or evidence of sexual abuse

:45:49. > :45:54.concerning those children. And whether appropriate steps were taken

:45:55. > :45:58.in response. And third, the adequacy of support and repar rations that

:45:59. > :46:01.have been offered to individuals who suffered sexual abuse relating to

:46:02. > :46:08.their inclusion into child migration programmes. As you've indicated

:46:09. > :46:20.chair, the inquiry has recognised seven core participants, the child

:46:21. > :46:23.migrants trust, Oliver cos grove and David Hill, Barnardo's, and the

:46:24. > :46:26.Secretary of State for Health. It is understood chair as you know that

:46:27. > :46:30.the Secretary of State for Health will represent the interests of

:46:31. > :46:32.other Government departments such as the Home Office, the Foreign and

:46:33. > :46:38.Commonwealth Office, and the Department for Education. As you've

:46:39. > :46:41.indicated chair the inquiry seeks to meet its terms of reference by

:46:42. > :46:45.conducting two public hearings in this case study. A part one hearing

:46:46. > :46:49.intended to provide an introduction to the child migration programmes

:46:50. > :46:53.and what previous inquiries have established about the incidents of

:46:54. > :46:57.sexual abuse of child migrants and to hear direct evidence from former

:46:58. > :47:01.child migrants of their experiences. And a part two hearing which will

:47:02. > :47:03.focus on the position of the institutions involved, in

:47:04. > :47:08.particular, what steps they took to protect children, what they knew or

:47:09. > :47:13.should have known of the sexual abuse of child migrants, the

:47:14. > :47:17.adequacy of their responses and the issue of support and repar ration.

:47:18. > :47:23.Today is the first day of that part one hearing. The part two hearing

:47:24. > :47:30.about commence on 10th July 2017. Turning then to an overview of the

:47:31. > :47:34.child migration programmes. Chair, the child migration case study

:47:35. > :47:38.relates to a lengthy episode in child welfare in England and Wales.

:47:39. > :47:42.Child migration programmes achieved a degree of public recognition in

:47:43. > :47:46.2010 when the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, issued a formal

:47:47. > :47:52.apology to former child migrants. But there remains little public

:47:53. > :47:56.awareness of the full extept of these programmes, of how they were

:47:57. > :47:59.conducted and their effects on the children subjected to them and

:48:00. > :48:02.particularly of the allegations of sexual abuse related to them. It is

:48:03. > :48:07.estimated that you will hear evidence that over 100,000 British

:48:08. > :48:10.children were sent abroad as subjects of the child migration

:48:11. > :48:14.programmes, mostly to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and what was

:48:15. > :48:19.then southern Rhodesia, modern day Zimbabwe. We anticipate that you

:48:20. > :48:25.will hear that most British child migrants, around 90,000 were sent to

:48:26. > :48:29.Canada between 1869 and 1924. The focus of this case study is the

:48:30. > :48:32.post-war period. But it is recognised that child migration

:48:33. > :48:37.schemes that operated for a lengthy period before then. As to the period

:48:38. > :48:41.after 1945, we anticipated that you will hear from the experts that over

:48:42. > :48:46.3,000 children were sent to Australia, between 1947 and 1965,

:48:47. > :48:56.with a few thereafter until the early 1970s. Around 559 were sent to

:48:57. > :49:02.New Zealand. 329 were September to one institution in Canada, between

:49:03. > :49:10.1935 and 1948 and 276 were sent to southern owe Decemberia between 1946

:49:11. > :49:15.and 1956. Chair, you'll hear evidence as to the ration nationals,

:49:16. > :49:18.you are likely to hear both British and colonial governments regarded

:49:19. > :49:25.the programmes as carrying the perceived benefits of reducing the

:49:26. > :49:29.cost to the State of maintaining destitute children. Many of the

:49:30. > :49:33.organisations advanced a humanitarian rational, ie they were

:49:34. > :49:36.rescuing children from poor and unsuitable environments and

:49:37. > :49:42.providing them with new and better opportunities overseas. Child

:49:43. > :49:47.migration assisted in populating the empire with white, Anglo-Saxon

:49:48. > :49:49.settlers. It is argued that it met religious concerns about

:49:50. > :49:53.safeguarding children's religious beliefs and it sought to ensure that

:49:54. > :49:59.a particular religious denomination was well represented among the

:50:00. > :50:03.imperial settlers. As to the funding for child migration, you'll hear

:50:04. > :50:06.initially the sceles were funded by a combination of charitable

:50:07. > :50:11.donations and funding from local unions. However, the empire

:50:12. > :50:17.settlement Act of 1922 and those that followed provided that partial

:50:18. > :50:20.public funding was available for any approved migration scheme, whether

:50:21. > :50:26.it was run by the Government or by a voluntary organisation. Additional

:50:27. > :50:30.funding was provided by national and regional governments overseas.

:50:31. > :50:34.According to the available records, chair, children as young as two were

:50:35. > :50:36.migrated under these programmes. We anticipate that you will hear

:50:37. > :50:40.evidence that these children were put on board ships departing from

:50:41. > :50:43.England and Wales, without being given any real understanding of

:50:44. > :50:46.where they were going, what they were doing and why they were being

:50:47. > :50:50.isn't. Many will say they were taken without the consent or the informed

:50:51. > :50:53.consent of their parents or guardians. Many will say that they

:50:54. > :50:57.were wrongly told that they were orphans. Separated from their

:50:58. > :51:00.siblings, and deprived of basic details about their identities.

:51:01. > :51:06.Making it much harder if not impossible to reunite themselves

:51:07. > :51:09.with their families in the future. In the receiving countries, most

:51:10. > :51:13.children were placed in institutions or in farm schools where they

:51:14. > :51:18.provide I had labour and domestic services or with families. In those

:51:19. > :51:21.institutions or schools, child migrants have given evidence that

:51:22. > :51:25.they were frequently subjected to extremely harsh conditions. Hard

:51:26. > :51:30.labour, and physical abuse by those responsible for their welfare. In

:51:31. > :51:32.addition, there are allegation of widespread and systematic sexual

:51:33. > :51:40.abuse taking place in those institutions. Or some of them. Some

:51:41. > :51:43.former child migrants alleged they were subjected to sexual abuse prior

:51:44. > :51:48.to their migration in homes in England and Wales. There is some

:51:49. > :51:50.evidence that you will hear of child migrants being sexually abused

:51:51. > :51:55.during the jurpb which from England and Wales. Others described sexual

:51:56. > :51:59.abuse in work environments to which they were sent. And some have

:52:00. > :52:06.described sexual abuse in holiday placements from the institutions.

:52:07. > :52:10.You're likely to hear chair very emotional accounts of the decades of

:52:11. > :52:14.pain their experiences have caused. In respect of the institutions

:52:15. > :52:19.involved, the UK Government provided partial funding for child migration

:52:20. > :52:22.schemes, approved the residential institutions to receive child

:52:23. > :52:24.migrants and was responsible for consenting to the migration of

:52:25. > :52:29.children sent from local authority care. Local authorities sent a

:52:30. > :52:33.relatively small proportion of children in their care overseas and

:52:34. > :52:37.had no regulatory role or oversight of the children sent by voluntary

:52:38. > :52:40.organisations. Overseas organisations had varying

:52:41. > :52:45.responsibilities for the guardianship, partial funding and

:52:46. > :52:48.monitoring of child migrants. It was voluntary organisations including

:52:49. > :52:52.religious bodies, who oversaw the selection and transportation of many

:52:53. > :52:55.child migrants from their own residential holes or directly from

:52:56. > :53:00.their families the they sometimes worked with organisations to arrange

:53:01. > :53:03.migration. Voluntary organisations also often placed the children in

:53:04. > :53:07.residential homes overseas, that were either part of the same

:53:08. > :53:12.organisation, or an affiliate of it or were part of the same religious

:53:13. > :53:16.denomination. Given the scope of the case study, chair, the inquiry will

:53:17. > :53:21.not consider the role of overseas bodies in child migration in any

:53:22. > :53:24.detail. Say to the extent the same is necessary to understand the

:53:25. > :53:29.roles, responsibilities and response of those institutions based in

:53:30. > :53:32.England and Wales. In terms of the voluntary organisations involved,

:53:33. > :53:36.you will hear evidence from a selection of children, who were

:53:37. > :53:40.migrated overseas by the Fairbridge Society, the Church of England

:53:41. > :53:46.Children's Society, Cornwall County Council, the sisters of Nazareth,

:53:47. > :53:51.Southwark Catholic rescue society, the royal overseas league, the

:53:52. > :53:56.National Children's Home, Father Hudson Society. It has not been

:53:57. > :53:59.possible to identify or call a witness who was migrated by every

:54:00. > :54:09.institution involved in the scheme, but he will hear you will hear from

:54:10. > :54:12.the experts. We anticipate chair that the experts will apine that

:54:13. > :54:16.child migration schemes were never accepted practise of the day, but

:54:17. > :54:19.attracted criticism of their working methods as well as support. That

:54:20. > :54:23.there was increasing concern about the schemes from some parts of the

:54:24. > :54:27.UK Government, in the light of the childcare standards set out in the

:54:28. > :54:33.Curtis Report of 1946 and that these concerns formed part of the reasons

:54:34. > :54:38.why child migration schemes ended. Turning now briefly to the role of

:54:39. > :54:42.other inquiries and investigations. In 1998, the House of Commons Select

:54:43. > :54:47.Committee on health investigated the issue of child migration. It found

:54:48. > :54:51.that the sexual abuse of child migrants in some institutions in

:54:52. > :54:55.Australia was widespread and systematic and to quote the language

:54:56. > :54:58.of their report, exceptionally depraved. The responsibility of some

:54:59. > :55:03.of the receiving institutions for the sexual abuse of children and the

:55:04. > :55:07.adequacy of repar rations to former child migrants are being

:55:08. > :55:12.investigated by the Australian Royal Commission. The Australian

:55:13. > :55:15.commission has carried out three case study investigations into

:55:16. > :55:20.institutions to which British child migrants were sent. It has found

:55:21. > :55:25.that at Salvation Army homes in Queensland and New South Wales it

:55:26. > :55:32.heard graphic and shocking accounts of how boys were treated. There was

:55:33. > :55:36.sex sexual abuse by officers or from employees and from other boys

:55:37. > :55:40.resident in the home from 1956 until the closure of the homes. The

:55:41. > :55:45.Australian Royal Commission found at Christian brothers institutions in

:55:46. > :55:53.Australia, children were isolated, inadequately educated and sexually

:55:54. > :55:58.abused and with regards to St Joseph's orphanage, there was cruel

:55:59. > :56:03.punishment of the children there. Some children had various barriers

:56:04. > :56:07.to reporting sexual abuse and some who did complain were not believed

:56:08. > :56:09.or were punished in. January, the Northern Ireland historical abuse

:56:10. > :56:13.inquiry which investigated children sent from institutions in Northern

:56:14. > :56:17.Ireland to Australia, in the years after World War II, found numerous

:56:18. > :56:19.failures in respect of the Northern Irish Government and various

:56:20. > :56:27.institutions that sent children to Australia. The Scottish child abuse

:56:28. > :56:30.inquiry is also conducting an investigation into child migration.

:56:31. > :56:34.The United Kingdom Government has acknowledged that children in child

:56:35. > :56:38.migration programmes endured the harshest of the conditions, neglect

:56:39. > :56:43.and abuse, but made no specific mention of sexual abuse. To date no

:56:44. > :56:47.public inquiry into the United Kingdom has under taken analysis of

:56:48. > :56:49.allegation of sexual abuse of child migrants and possible failings by

:56:50. > :56:55.institutions based in England and Wales in relation to that abuse.

:56:56. > :56:59.Previous reports and reviews on child migration only considered

:57:00. > :57:03.sexual abuse in a limited way. The present case study therefore, chair,

:57:04. > :57:06.for the first time considers whether the various England and Wales bodies

:57:07. > :57:10.took sufficient care to protect children who were child migrants

:57:11. > :57:13.from sexual abuse and whether after that abuse came to light there has

:57:14. > :57:14.been adequate