20/03/2017

:00:00. > :00:00.Hello, it's Monday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

:00:07. > :00:14.This morning, new figures obtained by this programme show there's

:00:15. > :00:18.a backlog of more than ?3.8 billion in unpaid child

:00:19. > :00:27.It affects over a million parents; we'll meet some of them.

:00:28. > :00:36.When I've paid my bills, I haven't got any money. I have ?8. 50 after

:00:37. > :00:39.my salary had been paid and I paid all the bills. It would be nice for

:00:40. > :00:41.the dad to have the respect. Also on the programme,

:00:42. > :00:44.a man is being held on suspicion of the murder of a one-year-old boy

:00:45. > :00:47.in North London and the attempted And, did you feel scrutinised

:00:48. > :00:52.and judged as a new mum? We'll hear about research which says

:00:53. > :00:55.lots of new mums feel their every move including what they eat,

:00:56. > :00:58.drink and give to their child is being monitored by friends,

:00:59. > :01:01.family and even total strangers. More on that to come

:01:02. > :01:13.before 10 this morning. Hi, I'm Anna. I felt judged in a pub

:01:14. > :01:16.garden with my thought earn at midday when I was drinking half

:01:17. > :01:20.apple juice half soda. I felt it was my decision to be there and it was

:01:21. > :01:29.my decision to drink that drink and I wasn't putting her in danger. I'm

:01:30. > :01:41.Sky, I had my son when I was 19 and felt judged for being a young mum.

:01:42. > :01:44.Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11.

:01:45. > :01:46.Throughout the morning - the latest breaking news

:01:47. > :02:00.and developing stories and we'll be celebrating the birthday of this

:02:01. > :02:03.woman. - Dame Vera Lynn the forces sweetheart

:02:04. > :02:06.who is 100 today...she's been performing since she was 7 years

:02:07. > :02:10.old but really came to prominence when she entertained the troops

:02:11. > :02:15.Use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text,

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:02:18. > :02:21.Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering

:02:22. > :02:24.a one-year-old boy at a flat in North London.

:02:25. > :02:26.The man will also be questioned on suspicion

:02:27. > :02:29.of attempting to murder a girl, thought to be the boy's twin sister.

:02:30. > :02:34.Our reporter Kathryn Stancheshun is at the scene.

:02:35. > :02:42.What is the latest? As you can see, Wilberforce Road here in Finsbury

:02:43. > :02:46.Park remains cordoned off this morning and manned by Metropolitan

:02:47. > :02:50.police officers. There's been some intense police activity on this

:02:51. > :02:54.street in the last 24 hours. Forensic teams going in and out of

:02:55. > :02:59.the cream property just up there, the top flat where this incident

:03:00. > :03:02.happened. Also, many house-to-house inquiries taking place yesterday and

:03:03. > :03:07.police are still talking to some of the residents on this street this

:03:08. > :03:14.morning. What we know is that 11pm on Saturday night, there were

:03:15. > :03:18.reports of noises, of shouting and screaming, and of a woman asking for

:03:19. > :03:21.help. Police arrive add the flat to find the two children, a

:03:22. > :03:25.one-year-old boy and one-year-old girl with severe injuries. They were

:03:26. > :03:33.both taken to hospital but sadly the little boy later died. Now, police

:03:34. > :03:37.have arrested a 33-year-old man. They earlier yesterday put out an

:03:38. > :03:42.appeal to speak to the man in connection with this incident. He's

:03:43. > :03:47.believed to be the twin's father. He's being questioned at an East

:03:48. > :03:52.London police station this morning. An update on the little girl - we

:03:53. > :03:56.know she remains in a critical but stable condition. It's understood

:03:57. > :04:02.she was taken to one hospital in London yesterday then transferred to

:04:03. > :04:06.another for more specialist care. Police say that they believe a

:04:07. > :04:09.postmortem examination is going to take place of the little boy in due

:04:10. > :04:13.course. That could possibly be later today. Thank you very much.

:04:14. > :04:23.Care companies have cancelled contracts with 95 UK councils,

:04:24. > :04:26.saying they cannot deliver services for the amount they are being paid.

:04:27. > :04:28.A BBC Panorama investigation found some firms said

:04:29. > :04:31.they could not recruit or retain the staff they needed.

:04:32. > :04:42.Good morning. Amanda is one of the UK's 800,000 home care workers.

:04:43. > :04:47.Today she's with a former teacher William Williams who has multiple

:04:48. > :04:51.sclerosis. Amanda's paid ?7. 55 an hour, just above the national living

:04:52. > :04:54.wage and, like many warth care workers, she struggles to make ends

:04:55. > :05:04.meet. She's on a zero hours contract which means her hours are not

:05:05. > :05:13.guaranteed. They did look into paying more four years ago but they

:05:14. > :05:19.couldn't do it. It's hard. Amanda is employed in Bangor. The firm is paid

:05:20. > :05:23.by local councils to provide home care but it currently has 30

:05:24. > :05:28.vacancies and is struggling to take on new clients. Last year, the

:05:29. > :05:34.company stopped providing care for one local council, Conway and handed

:05:35. > :05:39.back the contract. Conway council says it's committed to supporting

:05:40. > :05:44.vulnerable people in communities despite facing financial challenges.

:05:45. > :05:48.But Conwy's not alone. Our research reveals across the UK, almost 100

:05:49. > :05:52.councils have had home care contracts handed back to them. The

:05:53. > :05:55.UK Government declined to be interviewed but in a statement said

:05:56. > :05:59.it will be bringing forward proposals later this year to ensure

:06:00. > :06:03.a more financially sustainable social care system.

:06:04. > :06:07.Good evening, Mr Williams... With more of us living longer and a

:06:08. > :06:09.growing shortage of care workers, the pressure on people like Amanda

:06:10. > :06:16.will continue to grow. Figures obtained by this programme

:06:17. > :06:19.show 1.2 million single-parent families are owed child maintenance

:06:20. > :06:22.in the UK. Many of those families have been

:06:23. > :06:25.chasing the payments for years, and government figures suggest

:06:26. > :06:28.the total child maintenance debt New mums feel scrutinised

:06:29. > :06:34.and regulated by family, friends and strangers,

:06:35. > :06:36.research from Cardiff A small study found

:06:37. > :06:41.new mothers felt "judged" over what they were feeding their babies,

:06:42. > :06:44.as well as what they were eating At least 17 people have been killed

:06:45. > :06:51.in Ghana when a huge tree was swept over a waterfall and crashed down

:06:52. > :06:54.onto a group of swimmers below. The tree had been uprooted

:06:55. > :06:57.during a powerful storm. Most of those killed

:06:58. > :07:00.were high school pupils. Tests carried out on the body

:07:01. > :07:05.of the man shot dead at Orly airport near Paris on Saturday show he'd

:07:06. > :07:08.been taking drugs Ziyed Ben Belgacem grabbed

:07:09. > :07:13.an automatic rifle from a soldier before being killed

:07:14. > :07:17.by her colleagues. The man's father told French

:07:18. > :07:20.radio wasn't a terrorist The director of the FBI,

:07:21. > :07:25.James Comey, will give evidence today about alleged Russian

:07:26. > :07:28.interference in the US Appearing before the House

:07:29. > :07:34.Intelligence Committee, he's also expected to face questions

:07:35. > :07:37.about a second explosive issue. President Trump's claim

:07:38. > :07:40.that his predecessor, Barack Obama, authorised a wire-tap

:07:41. > :07:42.of Trump Tower during the campaign. Big changes in calculating personal

:07:43. > :07:44.injury insurance payouts come into effect today,

:07:45. > :07:46.which will mean higher compensation for some,

:07:47. > :07:49.but more costs for the industry. It comes after pressure

:07:50. > :07:51.from disability groups to lower the discount rate which determines

:07:52. > :07:56.how much the NHS, or insurance companies, must pay up front

:07:57. > :07:59.to successful claimants MPs from four committees -

:08:00. > :08:05.across Transport, Health and the Environment -

:08:06. > :08:07.are coming together to look They'll scrutinise whether

:08:08. > :08:12.government plans aimed at tackling the problem go far enough,

:08:13. > :08:21.as Andy Moore explains. A bus that looks clean enough until

:08:22. > :08:24.you view its exhaust through a special infrared camera that detects

:08:25. > :08:28.pollution. The same goes for this car. Poor air quality is

:08:29. > :08:35.contributing to the early deaths of 40,000 people in the UK every year.

:08:36. > :08:38.Much of the pollution comes from nitrogen dioxide and tiny particles.

:08:39. > :08:43.Diesel vehicles once thought to be part of the solution are now seen as

:08:44. > :08:47.the worst offenders. The problem is one that cuts across many branches

:08:48. > :08:51.of Government. So the House of Commons believes it's best to pool

:08:52. > :08:54.resources to analyse what's being done. A total of four sessions will

:08:55. > :09:07.be held jointly by these committees: Their job will be to scrutinise the

:09:08. > :09:11.Government's plans to tackle urban air pollution. Last November, the

:09:12. > :09:17.High Court said the Government must come up with a draft plan to tackle

:09:18. > :09:22.air pollution in our cities by the 24th April, a full plan must be in

:09:23. > :09:26.place by the end of July. Last month, the European Union said 16

:09:27. > :09:29.parts of the UK were breaching air quality directives. It's given the

:09:30. > :09:34.Government two months to come up with a scheme to solve the problem

:09:35. > :09:39.or face a multi-million pound fine. The Government says it's committed

:09:40. > :09:43.to improving the UK's air quality and recently announced a further

:09:44. > :09:51.?290 million in funding to tackle the problem. Andy Moore, BBC News.

:09:52. > :09:55.The Forces' Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn, is celebrating

:09:56. > :10:02.To mark the occasion, a 350 foot image of her is being projected

:10:03. > :10:08.A pair of wartime spitfires will also do a display over the cliffs.

:10:09. > :10:10.Dame Vera said she feels 'incredibly humbled' by efforts

:10:11. > :10:31.According to media reports, a park in Beijing is scanning visitor's

:10:32. > :10:35.faces before dispensing toilet roll because they're said to be using too

:10:36. > :10:38.much. They scan faces, dispense a fixed amount of loo paper so people

:10:39. > :10:43.can't get double or whatever they prefer to have. The tourist

:10:44. > :10:48.attraction is reportedly visited by people who take large amounts of loo

:10:49. > :10:54.roll home. Why would having facial recognition stop you taking more loo

:10:55. > :10:57.roll? Because you can't presumably get your face scanned twice. You

:10:58. > :11:01.could try to fool it though. Not that they'll come after you and

:11:02. > :11:04.demand the extra loo roll back. I think that might be the weirdest

:11:05. > :11:08.story I've read out. Fair enough! Thank you.

:11:09. > :11:10.Be very interested to know what unwanted advice

:11:11. > :11:15.Let me know use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text,

:11:16. > :11:18.you will be charged at the standard network rate.

:11:19. > :11:27.Tanya, after nine years of pursuing my ex, numerous letters from my MP

:11:28. > :11:33.and complaints to the head of the whiled support agency, I've still

:11:34. > :11:37.not received a single penny the ?65,000 in arrears my kids are owed

:11:38. > :11:42.by my father who is an oil contractor. The system is a

:11:43. > :11:47.disgrace. It helps fathers like my ex to avoid his legal and moral duty

:11:48. > :11:53.to financially support his children. A quick tweet from Joe who says

:11:54. > :11:57.she's now owed ?30,000 by her ex. Your experience is welcome.

:11:58. > :12:00.Let's get some sport. Oly Foster is with us this morning.

:12:01. > :12:03.Olly, all this week across BBC News, we'll be looking at the state

:12:04. > :12:06.Today there are some worrying findings regarding doping

:12:07. > :12:19.You think about the top end of doping and top athletes getting

:12:20. > :12:25.suspended stripped of gold medals, the blanket ban on Russian athletes,

:12:26. > :12:28.but BBC Sport's commissioned a poll of over 1,000 amateur sportsmen and

:12:29. > :12:31.women at clubs and organise somedayings across the UK and the

:12:32. > :12:51.results are startling. Let us show you some of the headline figures.

:12:52. > :12:56.UK anti-doping which polices doping and tries to crack down on this,

:12:57. > :13:02.they've got plenty to deal with as it is at the elite level of sport.

:13:03. > :13:07.But responding to the findings, here is their Chief Executive.

:13:08. > :13:13.Certainly the figures as regards the Ffrench lens of performance

:13:14. > :13:18.enhancing substances at amateur level are increedibly alarming that.

:13:19. > :13:22.Said, they do confirm what UK anti-doping has long suspected and

:13:23. > :13:27.also seen through some of our intelligence-led testing. The

:13:28. > :13:29.problem with amateur sport is that people don't think they're going to

:13:30. > :13:46.be tested. Amateur sports people take drugs?

:13:47. > :13:51.Yes. Let's return to the figures of 8% to a specifically admitted to

:13:52. > :14:07.taking steroids. At that level, it's clear that it's

:14:08. > :14:11.not all about winning. BBC Sport spoke to Dan Stevens who was

:14:12. > :14:15.actually caught three years ago. He said he doped out of curiosity more

:14:16. > :14:23.than getting any competitive advantage.

:14:24. > :14:29.I think it's widespread in all ranks, in electriccy, the beauty

:14:30. > :14:34.industry, slightly widespread in the sports industry. I also think it's a

:14:35. > :14:38.way of modern day life. I don't think in the amateur ranks it's

:14:39. > :14:41.about winning. My view is the anti-doping industry needs a roots

:14:42. > :14:46.and branches rewrite across the whole board. I think there's

:14:47. > :14:50.arguably different rules should apply to different people that

:14:51. > :14:55.benefit in different ways. I think it's a mess at the moment. And what

:14:56. > :15:00.other issues will you be looking at across the week, Olly? Plenty more

:15:01. > :15:05.on amateur doping and reaction to the findings in that poll. Tomorrow

:15:06. > :15:08.we'll look at the rise of e-sports, gaming and all that involves. That's

:15:09. > :15:12.a fascinating subject. Wednesday we have a Special Report from Syria.

:15:13. > :15:18.Football on the frontline. We'll also look at the balancing act of

:15:19. > :15:22.athlete welfare and medal success. Remember, the trouble British

:15:23. > :15:25.cycling was in recently, and also how sport can change lives for the

:15:26. > :15:29.better. The week will be rounded off by a debate on Friday night with

:15:30. > :15:31.some of the key decision-makers across sport. Should be a

:15:32. > :15:42.fascinating week. Richard Hammond posted a message on

:15:43. > :15:53.his website confirming he had a motorbike crash when film, but he's

:15:54. > :15:55.fine. He said "That's for the inquiries. I banged my head, but

:15:56. > :15:59.life goes on." When parents split up,

:16:00. > :16:01.they're both still expected to contribute towards the upbringing

:16:02. > :16:03.of their children. If they can't agree how

:16:04. > :16:05.much should be paid, a government agency decides

:16:06. > :16:08.on the cost of child maintenance. If one parent doesn't pay,

:16:09. > :16:10.it's chased up by the Government. But this programme can reveal

:16:11. > :16:14.that the amount of unpaid child maintenance parents are currently

:16:15. > :16:20.chasing stands at ?3.8 billion. And it affects 1.2 million

:16:21. > :16:25.people in the UK. The money is owed by non-resident

:16:26. > :16:27.parents or absent parents, and has built up over

:16:28. > :16:29.the last 23 years. Our reporter Nicola Rees has

:16:30. > :16:31.been speaking to some So, are you able to see how

:16:32. > :16:43.much money he's owed? Over ?3,000, but I've no confidence

:16:44. > :16:57.that I'm going to get that money. When couples split up,

:16:58. > :17:03.they're both still expected to contribute to the cost

:17:04. > :17:06.of bringing up their children. But, according to the latest

:17:07. > :17:10.figures, almost 1.2 million parents in the UK have failed to pay a total

:17:11. > :17:13.of ?3.8 billion It's such a huge, startling number

:17:14. > :17:23.that people can't quite believe it and do a double-take,

:17:24. > :17:26.and it's money that's built This is the money that he owes,

:17:27. > :17:37.but they don't seem to be able to get it off him, and there's

:17:38. > :17:40.been no repercussions. You're on hold for 15,

:17:41. > :17:42.20 minutes, you're being Payment of child maintenance

:17:43. > :17:46.is a legal obligation, a bit like income tax

:17:47. > :17:50.or national insurance. So how is it that so many

:17:51. > :17:52.parents are managing His dad has been assessed

:17:53. > :18:12.by the Child Support Agency He bought him a couple of books

:18:13. > :18:22.and ?50 at the beginning in 2009, but we're now in 2017,

:18:23. > :18:27.and the total amount What was it like for you,

:18:28. > :18:32.particularly early on, At the beginning, when I first

:18:33. > :18:39.moved up to Sheffield, it was really tough trying

:18:40. > :18:41.to support him because I just didn't have the money

:18:42. > :18:47.to look after him properly. And I had to just, you know,

:18:48. > :18:51.instead of going to do fun things, I would just take him to the park,

:18:52. > :18:54.get a picnic, we'd have the same picnic every

:18:55. > :18:56.single day, take a book. I mean, you know, I did my best,

:18:57. > :18:59.but I would've liked You have since moved on,

:19:00. > :19:03.and you've remarried. Do you in any way feel

:19:04. > :19:06.that that makes you less As his father, he has

:19:07. > :19:12.a responsibility. You don't just have the child,

:19:13. > :19:14.you raise them, you support them, You know, after nine years

:19:15. > :19:19.of trying to get money out of him via the CSA,

:19:20. > :19:21.and it's been completely In Nottingham, single mum

:19:22. > :19:31.Karen Horton is also desperate to recoup several years' worth

:19:32. > :19:33.of child maintenance debt Don't forget I'm working

:19:34. > :19:40.a double, so you need to sort your own dinner

:19:41. > :19:42.out, all right? Karen separated from

:19:43. > :19:44.Liam's dad ten years ago. At first, she received regular

:19:45. > :19:47.payments of ?5 a week directly from his benefits,

:19:48. > :19:52.but when he stopped claiming benefits and started working,

:19:53. > :19:54.the maintenance dried up. I was at university,

:19:55. > :20:06.I was on less than benefits, I was on a maintenance grant,

:20:07. > :20:09.and that ?5 a week would've made a difference right then,

:20:10. > :20:12.as daft as it sounds. I used to buy a loaf of bread

:20:13. > :20:17.and a packet of multi-crisps, and I'd just have crisp butties,

:20:18. > :20:21.because that'd only cost me about ?4 to feed me Monday to Friday,

:20:22. > :20:27.that was how bad it was. And to know that you could've had

:20:28. > :20:30.that support, had the system worked, it hurts a little bit more,

:20:31. > :20:33.because we needed that How much of a difference might

:20:34. > :20:40.this arrears money make That'd help massively, because that

:20:41. > :20:46.would put food on our table. Because by the time I've paid my

:20:47. > :20:49.bills, I haven't got food money. This month, five days

:20:50. > :20:51.after my salary went into my account, I had ?8.50,

:20:52. > :20:57.and that was for the month. Karen raised Liam alone for five

:20:58. > :21:02.years without child maintenance. But since 2014 she has

:21:03. > :21:04.received regular payments The CSA did eventually

:21:05. > :21:10.track Liam's dad down and calculate a payment for him,

:21:11. > :21:15.though, didn't they? I had to be constantly on to them,

:21:16. > :21:18.so I don't give them I had to ring them every week,

:21:19. > :21:25.pretty much, at that time, because we were so desperate

:21:26. > :21:28.for that money and I knew that he was working,

:21:29. > :21:30.and then when they're telling you that they've lost your case

:21:31. > :21:33.or there's been a problem, it's been overlooked,

:21:34. > :21:36.there's been a mistake on your case, your case has been put in the wrong

:21:37. > :21:39.place, or the wrong department... It's really frustrating then,

:21:40. > :21:41.because you know you're struggling because of their incompetence,

:21:42. > :21:45.really. The Child Support Agency was set up

:21:46. > :21:50.in 1993 to make sure that, if a relationship broke down,

:21:51. > :21:54.one parent couldn't just disappear and leave the other to pay the costs

:21:55. > :21:58.of bringing up their children. But for years it's been

:21:59. > :21:59.dogged with problems. Computer systems didn't work

:22:00. > :22:03.properly, and parents who didn't pay So, over 23 years, a multi-billion

:22:04. > :22:12.pound arrears debt's accumulated. It's money that should've been

:22:13. > :22:16.available for children. I've sent letters after letters,

:22:17. > :22:19.and I just felt like I was getting They asked for my bank details,

:22:20. > :22:27.they said they'll get the money off of him,

:22:28. > :22:30.they'll put it into my bank account, The Child Support Agency has

:22:31. > :22:33.taken enforcement action on at least three occasions,

:22:34. > :22:35.but the bailiffs haven't Do you have any hope that they'll

:22:36. > :22:41.get this money back for you? As soon as he gets wind that it's

:22:42. > :22:47.the CSA, he'll hang up. If they come round to the house,

:22:48. > :22:52.he won't let them in the house. This enforcement letter that I've

:22:53. > :22:56.got, a couple of years ago, they haven't done anything with it,

:22:57. > :22:59.there's been no repercussions whatsoever, so to me it's

:23:00. > :23:06.like a paper exercise. Laura's former partner

:23:07. > :23:10.is this man, Gary Lawford. He works as a children's

:23:11. > :23:16.entertainer in Brighton. We contacted him to ask why

:23:17. > :23:19.he hasn't paid child maintenance for Louis,

:23:20. > :23:25.but he declined to comment. The Child Support Agency has a whole

:23:26. > :23:27.range of powers to potentially They can take money directly

:23:28. > :23:33.from benefits or bank accounts, they can even use bailiffs

:23:34. > :23:38.to seize property. These are powers that they very

:23:39. > :23:41.seldom use, and yet for some people, particularly those

:23:42. > :23:43.who are self-employed, those are the things

:23:44. > :23:44.that would really work, Janet Allberson is from the single

:23:45. > :23:53.parents' charity Gingerbread. She wants the Government to do more

:23:54. > :23:58.to tackle the maintenance debt. We say there should be some

:23:59. > :24:00.compensation to children They shouldn't just be able to walk

:24:01. > :24:08.away and say its history when it's due to their errors and their poor

:24:09. > :24:10.practice that money That's wrong, and the Government

:24:11. > :24:18.should pay for that. The Government say that part of this

:24:19. > :24:21.issue is they're focusing on children who can benefit now,

:24:22. > :24:24.which is why the arrears It sounds very simple, doesn't it,

:24:25. > :24:35.focus on money for children now? But if you're just always cresting

:24:36. > :24:38.the wave and saying, "Money now," every week,

:24:39. > :24:41.every month, there's a proportion of parents who only pay,

:24:42. > :24:46.they pay nothing or they pay half, and when they don't pay that

:24:47. > :24:53.money starts to build up. Even if it's paid months,

:24:54. > :24:57.years late, it can still make a huge difference in terms of paying off

:24:58. > :24:59.bills, replenishing your savings, helping perhaps a teenage child

:25:00. > :25:05.redecorate their bedroom. In 2012, the Government

:25:06. > :25:09.bought in a new system The Child Maintenance Service,

:25:10. > :25:15.or CMS, brought with it new IT systems and the ability to access HM

:25:16. > :25:19.Revenue Customs data to make The new scheme introduced charges

:25:20. > :25:27.that parents had to pay before they could sign up,

:25:28. > :25:30.and the aim was actually to put people off using the Government's

:25:31. > :25:34.scheme and instead to encourage them to go away, sit down

:25:35. > :25:36.and come up with their own But in many cases that's

:25:37. > :25:46.simply not happening. What they say is they want

:25:47. > :25:48.parents to collaborate and agree maintenance,

:25:49. > :25:51.and do it in a friendly way, and so charging people ?20 to use

:25:52. > :25:55.the new service is intended to make them go away and agree their own

:25:56. > :26:00.arrangements instead. The worry is, of course,

:26:01. > :26:03.that it's putting off particularly low-income parents,

:26:04. > :26:09.who can't afford it. To pay ?20 to try and chase up,

:26:10. > :26:12.get money out of him for Louis when there's ?9,000 owing

:26:13. > :26:19.from the last ten years... Why would I pay more to get money

:26:20. > :26:22.that I haven't even got...? It doesn't make sense to me at all,

:26:23. > :26:26.so until I've got that money back, I'm not going to be paying money

:26:27. > :26:29.to get money that's Laura's frustrations are shared

:26:30. > :26:33.by many single parents. In fact, only 16% have reapplied

:26:34. > :26:36.to have their maintenance But among those who

:26:37. > :26:45.have, there is hope. Karen is now receiving regular

:26:46. > :26:50.payments from her ex. He is now making regular payments

:26:51. > :26:52.and a small contribution Does that give you confidence,

:26:53. > :26:58.are you cautiously optimistic? Yeah, it's an anxiety, really,

:26:59. > :27:01.because you don't know if that money's going to come at the end

:27:02. > :27:04.of the month. So you can never rely on it,

:27:05. > :27:07.even if you do start getting it, you don't know how much you're

:27:08. > :27:10.going to get every month because And then it's still the really bad

:27:11. > :27:18.correspondence, so every month I get a letter saying that he hasn't paid,

:27:19. > :27:21.but then I get a text message a couple of weeks later saying that

:27:22. > :27:26.there's a payment been made. The new and improved CMS

:27:27. > :27:28.was supposed to solve the arrears problem,

:27:29. > :27:33.but the debt continues to rise. So far, for the parents who have

:27:34. > :27:37.signed up, the service is only collecting around half

:27:38. > :27:41.of the money that's due. In fact, the new system has already

:27:42. > :27:44.clocked up ?93 million Just going to find out

:27:45. > :27:50.where your case is located. For Laura,

:27:51. > :27:55.the fight is far from over. I'll just pop you on hold

:27:56. > :27:57.a moment, I'll not keep But dealing with the system

:27:58. > :28:01.doesn't get any easier. How many years should

:28:02. > :28:08.you chase them? Can you tell me what's happening

:28:09. > :28:27.with this money, and when I'm, if there's any chance

:28:28. > :28:29.of me getting it? OK, yeah, that's

:28:30. > :28:38.the figure I've got. Right, what I need to do is I need

:28:39. > :28:47.to contact enforcement for you. After 22 minutes on the phone

:28:48. > :28:50.to three different departments, Laura is told someone

:28:51. > :28:53.will call her back. They've confirmed that he owes a sum

:28:54. > :28:56.of ?9,109, but they can't confirm anything else,

:28:57. > :28:58.you know, when it's They're just trying to find

:28:59. > :29:09.the right department of where it is, so now I have to phone them back

:29:10. > :29:15.to phone up a different number, but it's like this all the time,

:29:16. > :29:18.it's just a complete headache. I'm not getting anywhere with it,

:29:19. > :29:21.I've just wasted all this time on the phone and now I feel really

:29:22. > :29:25.stressed, you can probably tell by my voice, I'm just getting

:29:26. > :29:28.really wound up and... We very much want the CMS

:29:29. > :29:36.to succeed, we want it to work. We don't agree with the fact that

:29:37. > :29:39.you've got to be charged to use it, we think that's

:29:40. > :29:43.a very blunt instrument. But we do want the service

:29:44. > :29:47.to deliver for children. At the moment, there's

:29:48. > :29:50.still questions to be asked about how much effort it's put

:29:51. > :29:54.in to chasing those who choose not to pay, and we don't think, as yet,

:29:55. > :29:58.it's got that right, and there's more that needs

:29:59. > :30:02.to be done. The Government says it's

:30:03. > :30:04.getting tough tackling parents who evade payment,

:30:05. > :30:08.but with billions of pounds' worth of child maintenance outstanding,

:30:09. > :30:11.many single-parent families I don't understand how a father can

:30:12. > :30:19.get away with not paying. How can he sleep at night,

:30:20. > :30:24.when that's his child I don't know how he

:30:25. > :30:29.sleeps, I really don't. It'd have been nice for Liam to know

:30:30. > :30:32.that his dad was contributing. It'd have been nice for Liam to have

:30:33. > :30:35.that respect in his dad that he's If your ex-partner isn't

:30:36. > :30:46.paying child maintenance then do get in touch, I am really

:30:47. > :30:49.keen to hear how you cope without it and what measures you've

:30:50. > :30:51.undertaken to get it. Now - as you'd expect

:30:52. > :30:54.we asked the dept of work and pensions to speak to us -

:30:55. > :30:57.and they said no. Telling us they "actively pursue

:30:58. > :31:00.non-resident parents to recover unpaid maintenance" and are

:31:01. > :31:02."committed to ensuring that everyone gets paid the child maintenance

:31:03. > :31:05.they're entitled to." We asked them about the ?93 million

:31:06. > :31:08.of new debt that's already accumulated under the Child

:31:09. > :31:13.Maintenance Service. They said "in nearly 90% of these

:31:14. > :31:17.arrears cases parents are paying In reference to the people we heard

:31:18. > :31:24.from in the film, the DWP apologised to Karen for the handling

:31:25. > :31:27.of her case under the They say they've now "taken action

:31:28. > :31:32.to enforce payments" and taken "additional steps to ensure

:31:33. > :31:34.the arrears owed And finally we asked them to look

:31:35. > :31:39.at Laura's case too. They said that's now

:31:40. > :31:42.been "transferred to the Child Maintenance Service along

:31:43. > :31:45.with the arrears owed" and that they're using the enforcement

:31:46. > :32:01.methods available to them A texter says, my ex owes me ?1200,

:32:02. > :32:05.a relatively small amount to some, but the CSA kept changing my case

:32:06. > :32:09.because he kept moving addresses. I'll never see that money. My

:32:10. > :32:13.daughter is no longer entitled to child benefit and they told me now

:32:14. > :32:16.they won't follow it up. The system is a job, if it was the Government

:32:17. > :32:22.that owed the money they would find a way to recover it but not for

:32:23. > :32:29.single parents. Claire says my ex hasn't paid maintenance since we

:32:30. > :32:34.split up over eight years ago and he owes ?17,500. He switches work or

:32:35. > :32:38.works self-employed to avoid the CSA and CMS, it's a disgrace, they

:32:39. > :32:42.should be able to jail him. Rachel says, can we also bring to light

:32:43. > :32:45.that some mores abuse the child maintenance service, stopping the

:32:46. > :32:55.father from seeing their children just to get more money. Lisa says, I

:32:56. > :33:00.still have a debt of ?41,000 that's been cleared, ?100 per month for

:33:01. > :33:04.boys now aged 22 and 24, they'll be nearly 40 by the time it's cleared.

:33:05. > :33:06.If you've got a story to share about child maintenance payments,

:33:07. > :33:13.do get in touch with the programme - we'll be speaking to one mother

:33:14. > :33:18.after 10am who has spent six years chasing arrears of almost ?3,000.

:33:19. > :33:22.Still to come, nearly one in four home care companies are at risk

:33:23. > :33:25.of going bankrupt because they can't recruit enough staff

:33:26. > :33:30.We'll hear from one home care worker who has decided

:33:31. > :33:37.Were you ever given disapproving looks or told off

:33:38. > :33:40.for what you were doing or not doing as a new mum?

:33:41. > :33:43.We'll hear about research which says lots of new mums feel their every

:33:44. > :33:46.move including what they eat, drink and give to their child

:33:47. > :33:49.is being monitored by friends, family and even total strangers.

:33:50. > :33:52.Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of the news.

:33:53. > :33:55.Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering

:33:56. > :33:57.a one-year-old boy at a flat in North London.

:33:58. > :34:00.The man will also be questioned on suspicion

:34:01. > :34:03.of attempting to murder a girl, thought to be the boy's twin sister.

:34:04. > :34:06.The boy died in the early hours of Sunday and the girl remains

:34:07. > :34:11.Care companies have cancelled contracts with 95 UK councils,

:34:12. > :34:15.saying they cannot deliver services for the amount they are being paid.

:34:16. > :34:19.A BBC Panorama investigation found some firms said

:34:20. > :34:22.they could not recruit or retain the staff they needed.

:34:23. > :34:26.The Local Government Association said the situation was the result

:34:27. > :34:29.of "historic under-funding" and an ageing population.

:34:30. > :34:33.Figures obtained by this programme show 1.2 million single-parent

:34:34. > :34:36.families are owed child maintenance in the UK.

:34:37. > :34:39.Many of those families have been chasing the payments for years,

:34:40. > :34:43.and government figures suggest the total child maintenance debt

:34:44. > :34:49.At least 17 people have been killed in Ghana when a huge tree was swept

:34:50. > :34:52.over a waterfall and crashed down onto a group of swimmers below.

:34:53. > :34:55.The tree had been uprooted during a powerful storm.

:34:56. > :35:06.Most of those killed were high school pupils.

:35:07. > :35:09.The Force's Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn, is celebrating

:35:10. > :35:14.To mark the occasion, a 350-foot image

:35:15. > :35:17.of her is being projected on to the White Cliffs of Dover.

:35:18. > :35:20.A pair of wartime spitfires will also do a display over the cliffs.

:35:21. > :35:23.Dame Vera said she feels "incredibly humbled" by efforts

:35:24. > :35:33.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10am.

:35:34. > :35:40.This is from somebody who doesn't wish to use their name to do with

:35:41. > :35:45.child maintenance - I am far from an absent parent, I have equal care of

:35:46. > :35:50.my daughter and yet the CSA have taken ?500 off us a month. CSA base

:35:51. > :35:59.everything upon who gets child benefit so she has greater financial

:36:00. > :36:06.income that is far greater than mine. The CSA target the parents

:36:07. > :36:10.that are easy targets. I have not had support from anyone. Please keep

:36:11. > :36:14.this anonymous, the agency is the issue, they do everything wrong,

:36:15. > :36:19.they're absolutely useless. Here is the sport.

:36:20. > :36:27.At the start of our State of Sport week, the head of anti-doping is

:36:28. > :36:33.alarmed at the results of a poll looking at doping in amateur sport.

:36:34. > :36:38.35% said they know somebody who has used performance enhancing drugs. In

:36:39. > :36:42.the Premier League, Manchester City and Liverpool remain third and

:36:43. > :36:46.fourth after cancelling each other out at the Etihad. Aguero scored

:36:47. > :36:50.City's equaliser in the draw. Tottenham are clear in second place

:36:51. > :36:56.after they beat Southampton 2-1 at White Hart Lane. Christian Eriksen

:36:57. > :37:01.and deli Ali scored their goals. They are ten points behind Chelsea.

:37:02. > :37:08.Roger Federer's won a title following an 18th major win. A few

:37:09. > :37:12.months ago, the 35-year-old won the Indian Wells tournament. He beat

:37:13. > :37:16.fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka. Home care companies have warned that

:37:17. > :37:18.they're in crisis because they can't recruit enough staff

:37:19. > :37:21.to meet growing demand. Across the UK 800,000 home care

:37:22. > :37:24.workers help elderly and disabled people live independent

:37:25. > :37:27.lives at home. The majority are employed

:37:28. > :37:30.by private companies Research by the BBC's Panorama

:37:31. > :37:35.programme reveals that nearly 100 councils have had home care

:37:36. > :37:38.contracts handed back to them. In their investigation they found

:37:39. > :37:40.nearly one in four home care companies are at risk of shutting

:37:41. > :37:43.down and that 69 have closed Amanda Hopewell is a home care

:37:44. > :37:47.worker and she described what a working day

:37:48. > :37:51.looks like for her. When you're with them every day

:37:52. > :38:04.of the week it's easy to get to know them and

:38:05. > :38:14.their routine, really. In the mornings, you go in and,

:38:15. > :38:18.like, help them get out of bed, make them breakfast,

:38:19. > :38:21.and help them get dressed and stuff. I could see up to about ten

:38:22. > :38:26.or 11 people a day. If I do a long day's work

:38:27. > :38:34.I would put ?20 a day in this camp If I do a long day's work

:38:35. > :38:38.I would put ?20 a day in this car Most probably a quarter

:38:39. > :38:44.of my wages goes on to fuel. Even though they pay

:38:45. > :38:46.more, and you get a contract off them, but I don't think

:38:47. > :38:50.I'd be sitting behind the till, I feel good about myself when I've

:38:51. > :38:57.given them that care as well, I know And that they tipped up in bed

:38:58. > :39:02.and the door's locked then... Let's talk now to Colin Angel

:39:03. > :39:15.from the UK's Home Care Association and Zoe Anderson who is

:39:16. > :39:24.a home care worker. Welcome both of you. We saw Amanda's

:39:25. > :39:29.story. Tell us about your own daily routine as a home care worker? Well,

:39:30. > :39:32.it's fairly typical what she was talking about, we get up very early,

:39:33. > :39:36.don't usually get paid for travel time so we have to work very long

:39:37. > :39:40.hours in the day to make up a seven-hour day that would be normal.

:39:41. > :39:44.So you would have to do like 14 visits at least in a day to make it

:39:45. > :39:47.like a normal day's work which would take you from maybe six in the

:39:48. > :39:50.morning until eight in the evening to get the calls in with only a

:39:51. > :39:54.couple of hours break for the hole day. You get half an hour with each

:39:55. > :40:00.client, is that right? For most, yes. For a straightforward personal

:40:01. > :40:03.care visit helping wash and dress, make breakfast, help can medication,

:40:04. > :40:07.you would get half an hour which means you don't have any time for

:40:08. > :40:11.any extras, it's straight in and straight out, no time to spend with

:40:12. > :40:14.people or do the odd little bits and pieces that people need to stay

:40:15. > :40:17.comfortable. It's very difficult. Can you do all that you are supposed

:40:18. > :40:22.to do in that 30 minutes? No, no, no. Well, most of the time, but if

:40:23. > :40:27.you go over slightly, 35, 40 minutes, you don't usually get any

:40:28. > :40:31.extra for that so it eats into your day and the more you do, the less

:40:32. > :40:39.you get paid basely so the more you care the less you get paid. Colin

:40:40. > :40:44.your organisation says they should get ?16.70 an hour to provide decent

:40:45. > :40:51.care and pay staff a legal wage. What is the reality? Home care

:40:52. > :40:55.providers are receiving significantly less than our minimum

:40:56. > :41:00.price for home care. How much less? So on average about ?2 an hour less.

:41:01. > :41:07.That means care providers are having to ration the number of staff they

:41:08. > :41:11.have in the office, reducing the number of supervisors available. We

:41:12. > :41:17.are seeing the creation of a system that Zoe's described of not having

:41:18. > :41:21.enough time to meet people's needs, they're very rushed and it's an

:41:22. > :41:26.undignified service for many which it shouldn't be. This relates to how

:41:27. > :41:29.councils are underfunding care, their budgets themselves are under

:41:30. > :41:33.stress. You know the Government's injected this ?2 billion extra or is

:41:34. > :41:37.going to, I'm not sure how it's going to pay for that yet but it's

:41:38. > :41:41.going to inject ?2 billion into social care in the next couple of

:41:42. > :41:46.years, how is that going to help? It's going to help, it's over two

:41:47. > :41:49.years. It will stop further deterioration, it will keep the

:41:50. > :41:52.system stable while the Government comes up with a long-term solution

:41:53. > :41:58.for funding older people's care. That's urgently needed and it's

:41:59. > :42:02.going to be the state picking up the cost of people's care, or will that

:42:03. > :42:08.need people paying through national insurance or taking on insurance or

:42:09. > :42:12.using the value in their own homes? What What is your motivation for

:42:13. > :42:17.doing this job, Zoe? It's not the money. I especially like the elderly

:42:18. > :42:21.and caring for them. When the job is good, it's the best job in the

:42:22. > :42:24.world, the rewards are immense, you really can make a difference to

:42:25. > :42:27.people's lives when you are able to do your job properly. Unfortunately

:42:28. > :42:31.at the moment, the business is being held together by a hard core of

:42:32. > :42:34.people doing it for love and care and specifically for our clients. We

:42:35. > :42:39.are not doing it for anybody else and we are not getting supported in

:42:40. > :42:44.that. We are slowly leaving. The staff, we can't retain good staff,

:42:45. > :42:49.unless you are really dedicated to the job nobody does it for more than

:42:50. > :42:54.a few weeks. Are you leaving? I'm going to work in a care home, yes,

:42:55. > :42:58.in a couple of weeks, it's better hours, I'm getting paid for all the

:42:59. > :43:02.time that I'm working, it's a less care-based role as well so I'm

:43:03. > :43:03.hoping to be a lot less tired than I am at the moment. Thank you very

:43:04. > :43:10.much. You can see more on this story

:43:11. > :43:13.in Panorama on BBC One Vera Lynn, the World War II

:43:14. > :43:25.singer, turns 100 today. Events across the UK

:43:26. > :43:33.will celebrate her life. Is it okay for a complete stranger

:43:34. > :43:37.to tell you, as a new mum, A small study today suggests that

:43:38. > :43:42.new mums feel judged and scrutinised when it comes to parenting -

:43:43. > :43:47.judged by strangers and family members, and it puts them

:43:48. > :43:51.under undue pressure. We can speak now to Anna Whitehouse

:43:52. > :43:56.who is 6 months pregnant and has Ven Wong is here with her

:43:57. > :44:02.one-year old Kyler. And Skye Blake with

:44:03. > :44:07.seven-month-old Reggie is here. Rosamund Dean is Mum to Ezra

:44:08. > :44:22.and three-week-old Eden. Hello, everybody! Sorry about the

:44:23. > :44:26.rush. Thanks for getting here. Congratulations, this must be Eden.

:44:27. > :44:33.Yes. There she is. So, Rosamund, is it

:44:34. > :44:37.true that recently you felt you had to lie about breast-feeding to a

:44:38. > :44:42.total stranger? Yes! That did happen actually at the swimming pool at the

:44:43. > :44:47.weekend. Eden and I were in the viewing gallery watching my husband

:44:48. > :44:52.and toddler Sam splashing around in the pool and a woman came over and

:44:53. > :44:56.said what a lovely baby. Breast-fed? And this time around, my second

:44:57. > :45:02.child, I stopped breast-feeding earlier so she's formula fed now.

:45:03. > :45:06.Ridiculously, I said yes. I felt I didn't want to be judged by this

:45:07. > :45:11.stranger. Wow. Do you mind me asking how old the stranger was out of

:45:12. > :45:16.interest? She was in her 20s I would say or early 30s max. She didn't

:45:17. > :45:20.seem... So did you do that, you said because you didn't want to be judged

:45:21. > :45:25.but also was it easier because you didn't necessarily want to get into

:45:26. > :45:29.the conversation about the decision you had taken?

:45:30. > :45:37.I felt if I said no it would have been a whole conversation. Of course

:45:38. > :45:41.and you would have had to justify your decisions. She knows nothing

:45:42. > :45:47.about you or Eden. Who else can relate to that? So he's breast fed,

:45:48. > :45:51.but I get asked when I'm putting him on formula. Really? Because it works

:45:52. > :46:00.for us, I don't have a plan any time soon. Why do you think you get asked

:46:01. > :46:06.that? Is it because you're young or look young or what? I think it's me

:46:07. > :46:12.being young definitely comes into it. But I think people think that

:46:13. > :46:16.breast, you breastfeed for a certain amount of time and then you just

:46:17. > :46:20.switch to formula, but if it works for me, I don't see why I need to, I

:46:21. > :46:23.mean he's perfectly happy and healthy and putting on weight. And

:46:24. > :46:28.what do you think of complete strangers asking you about how you

:46:29. > :46:34.feed your child? I get complete strangers asking me as well. People

:46:35. > :46:43.on the bus. Just people I see at other play groups. I mean everyone

:46:44. > :46:47.is different. Extraordinary. Anna, why does everyone have an opinion? I

:46:48. > :46:51.don't know because there is so much more information out there. When my

:46:52. > :46:55.mum went through it all, there wasn't the internet and this

:46:56. > :46:59.abundance of how to parent, you just got on with it. I was in a pub

:47:00. > :47:05.garden with May when she was really young in the sun, just drinking. Had

:47:06. > :47:12.half apple juice and half soda, but in a pint glass and the judgement

:47:13. > :47:17.around me, it was actually from a younger generation like, "Should she

:47:18. > :47:23.either be here? Should she be drinking it that" I was like I love

:47:24. > :47:27.my kid. I'm just drinking apple juice. There is also a kids play

:47:28. > :47:32.area at this pub. The pub understands you have children and

:47:33. > :47:39.that it's not suddenly a place of shame. I feel more judged at the

:47:40. > :47:42.moment on what I'm eating because I'm six months pregnant from

:47:43. > :47:47.everybody from somebody in a restaurant. Are you sure you want

:47:48. > :47:52.medium steak? Is that the waiter or the waitress? Without meaning it.

:47:53. > :47:57.They might be checking because they don't want to be held liable if

:47:58. > :48:03.something goes wrong? People feel they care about it, but also there

:48:04. > :48:08.is an implication that we're not. Do you have something to say about this

:48:09. > :48:17.What do you want to say? My mummy eats all of my food! Does she?

:48:18. > :48:23.Alyour fish fingers? We all do it! Hello. What about your experience? I

:48:24. > :48:28.mean I really agree with the sentiment that social media as kind

:48:29. > :48:35.of made. It amplifies everything. Why does it? For me, I mean, I

:48:36. > :48:39.guess, it's information is more out there and more like easily

:48:40. > :48:45.accessible and for me it was more about the stories that I read, you

:48:46. > :48:49.know, on Facebook or online of incidents where people had, you

:48:50. > :48:55.know, issues breast-feeding in public. For me, I did breastfeed for

:48:56. > :48:59.six months and for me the biggest issue was worrying that people are

:49:00. > :49:02.looking at me and judging me for the way I'm breast-feeding or people

:49:03. > :49:06.walking out, people being judgemental about it because I had

:49:07. > :49:10.read so many stories. Did you actually experience it or were you

:49:11. > :49:14.worried about experiencing it? The thing is, I was so worried about it

:49:15. > :49:19.to the point where I didn't want to do it in public. Right. For me, I

:49:20. > :49:24.actually just hardly even left the house for six months because I was

:49:25. > :49:29.so worried of what other people would think that I just fed him at

:49:30. > :49:35.home. You see those comments on Facebook. Comments all the time. I

:49:36. > :49:39.think you just think that's a representation of maybe what

:49:40. > :49:44.outsiders are thinking. It might be, but it doesn't help your mindset. My

:49:45. > :49:48.mum didn't have that. She didn't have that kernel planted in her mind

:49:49. > :49:53.that somebody might think it's terrible I'm feeding my newborn

:49:54. > :49:56.formula aged three weeks. I think it's really funny because parents

:49:57. > :50:01.and that generation will say to you, you guys have it so easy, we didn't

:50:02. > :50:06.have any of the stuff you've got now. I think it is more complicated

:50:07. > :50:11.now with social media ampifying everything and they didn't have

:50:12. > :50:15.that. It's crazy whether you're breast-feeding or bottle-feeding

:50:16. > :50:19.your baby you can feel worried about doing it in public because of the

:50:20. > :50:24.way you will be judged. What about being judged or scrutinised or put

:50:25. > :50:28.under pressure by your own parents or siblings, relatives and close

:50:29. > :50:32.friends? Does that happen? I don't know about you guys, but I didn't

:50:33. > :50:36.experience that. My family were very, very supportive and very

:50:37. > :50:39.reassuring. My mother and mother-in-law said, you know, I

:50:40. > :50:44.didn't breastfeed for very long and my friend said, you know in a couple

:50:45. > :50:47.of years when you've got a toddler running around you're going to think

:50:48. > :50:50.I can't believe I spent any time worrying about giving me baby a

:50:51. > :50:56.bottle. So my family are very supportive. I found it more

:50:57. > :51:00.midwives. It's awful really, healthcare professionals weren't

:51:01. > :51:04.reassuring in that way. They were very, very, you know, they were very

:51:05. > :51:07.convinced about breast-feeding and that being the best thing. And that

:51:08. > :51:11.put pressure on you? Yes, absolutely. When my son who is now

:51:12. > :51:16.two-and-a-half, when he was three weeks old, I was really struggling

:51:17. > :51:19.with breast-feeding and I cracked nipples and had by expressing milk

:51:20. > :51:24.into a bottle and I thought it is fine because it's still breast milk

:51:25. > :51:29.and the midwife said you shouldn't do that because your son wouldn't

:51:30. > :51:33.get antibodies he needs unless it comes from the breast. I researched

:51:34. > :51:40.that and there is no evidence for that, what a thing to say to an

:51:41. > :51:46.emotional, vulnerable new mum who is desperate to do the best thing for

:51:47. > :51:52.her baby. Who saw a mum fill up a baby's bottle with Dr Pepper

:51:53. > :51:57.recently? I was on a bus in Lleyton. It drew quite a interesting feeling

:51:58. > :52:04.of myself as a mother because I thought how easy is to for me to

:52:05. > :52:08.just judge that straightaway? But I have had days where I've fed her

:52:09. > :52:12.mainly chocolate because I've had a very difficult day and she won't eat

:52:13. > :52:15.anything else. I've had days where I have been throwing up so much

:52:16. > :52:25.because of HGV, morning sickness and the only thing I can eat for my bump

:52:26. > :52:29.is, you know, three Mars bars. You don't know that circumstance and

:52:30. > :52:34.while that's not great and obviously not to advocate, I just felt

:52:35. > :52:38.actually, I can't judge that. Yes. It's not, for me, to judge. I don't

:52:39. > :52:42.know the circumstances that have led to that and I'm going to make that

:52:43. > :52:46.mother feel worse and ultimately, you need to be in an OK frame of

:52:47. > :52:49.mind as a mother, whatever is going on around you, that's more

:52:50. > :52:54.important, I think. Thank you so much for coming in with

:52:55. > :52:55.your delicious children. Thank you, I really appreciate it and good

:52:56. > :53:10.luck. All the very best, thank you. Vera Lynn, the World War II

:53:11. > :53:19.singer, turns 100 today. Events across the UK

:53:20. > :53:21.will celebrate her life. A seven-year-old tells us

:53:22. > :53:23.how her junior first aid training saved her toddler brother's life

:53:24. > :53:28.when he suffered a seizure. Roxy took the dummy out of Harvey's

:53:29. > :53:37.mouth and put him in the recovery position. She just won a national

:53:38. > :53:50.award. We can speak to them both now. Roxy, tell us what you did. I

:53:51. > :53:54.put him in the recovery position. He just do that with one hand and then

:53:55. > :53:57.you do that with the other hand and then you bend your leg like that and

:53:58. > :54:04.then like, you put the straight leg on to the bent leg and you twist

:54:05. > :54:10.them on their side. If they're a baby, you take their dummy out. How

:54:11. > :54:15.did you know how to do all that? St John's. You had training with St

:54:16. > :54:22.John's, had you? Yes. Wow. And what was happening to Harley that led you

:54:23. > :54:32.to do all of that? He was having a fit. He was like blue and then like

:54:33. > :54:44.and then he couldn't breathe and then like we had to talk to him. So

:54:45. > :54:48.it didn't block his airway and he was being sick and we had to do

:54:49. > :54:57.something. Wow, you saved his life, Roxy. Yeah. That's incredible. Kate,

:54:58. > :55:01.I mean, does Harley often have the seizures? Is it something that your

:55:02. > :55:06.family would know how to deal with or was this unusual? Well, this was

:55:07. > :55:11.actually Harley's third seizure that he'd suffered. He'd suffered two

:55:12. > :55:20.previously and then this was the firsted one. Third one. You start to

:55:21. > :55:26.deal with them, but obviously we weren't with him when he had his

:55:27. > :55:31.third seizure, he was staying with his grandparents. But they're so

:55:32. > :55:36.traumatic to watch for him. You just feel so helpless. Had you

:55:37. > :55:41.deliberately got some training for Roxy? Or was it a coincidence with

:55:42. > :55:48.the work she has been doing with St John's? No, she'd actually been

:55:49. > :55:53.learning to do recovery positions with St John's probably well months

:55:54. > :55:58.before so actually she had been using me and her dad as guinea pigs

:55:59. > :56:03.to put us in recovery position after she'd learnt the sort of skill there

:56:04. > :56:06.with them, but they're always sort of upgrading with their first aid

:56:07. > :56:10.and stuff. She is is always learning new things with the St John's. Of

:56:11. > :56:15.course, just because you learn it, it doesn't mean actually remember

:56:16. > :56:19.what to do when you might need to bring forward the training that

:56:20. > :56:25.you've had? Absolutely because, I mean, when Harley sort of sufferths

:56:26. > :56:31.suffers his convulsions, it is panic stations really, but luckily Roxy is

:56:32. > :56:37.very much like her dad. She is a very cool, calm and collected little

:56:38. > :56:41.girl and so is her dadment they deal with the situation and obviously she

:56:42. > :56:44.has got a cool mannerism about her. She had learnt, that's how she

:56:45. > :56:50.learnt to deal with Harley on this particular occasion. What do you

:56:51. > :56:57.think of her actions? Oh, amazing. Me and her dad can't begin to tell

:56:58. > :57:02.you how proud we are of her, and not just us but her grandparents and

:57:03. > :57:05.their nanny and grandad, and many family members and friends, you

:57:06. > :57:09.know, they're overwhelmed by what she has done and her teachers in

:57:10. > :57:13.primary school. She has up in Assembly and she look a letter in

:57:14. > :57:17.when she had the nomination. She took that in and went up in front of

:57:18. > :57:21.the Assembly and the children. She took her award to show them all. So

:57:22. > :57:25.yeah, she is quite a little superstar around here at the moment

:57:26. > :57:28.to say the least. Well, quite right too. Thank you so much both of you.

:57:29. > :57:33.Thank you, Roxy. Thank you Kate. Thank you very much for talking to

:57:34. > :57:36.us this morning. No problem, thanks a lot. Bye. We recorded that before

:57:37. > :57:42.Roxy went to school! Let's get the latest

:57:43. > :57:50.weather update with Carol. Not as spring-like as it should be?

:57:51. > :57:55.We have had temperatures way love average. This week, they will be

:57:56. > :58:04.below average. If you have been planting in your garden bear that in

:58:05. > :58:10.mind... Not it this weekend, no. This morning we've got varied

:58:11. > :58:14.weather. Look at this lovely picture taken by one of our Weather Watchers

:58:15. > :58:17.in Durham. In Wales it has been a wet morning, but for us things will

:58:18. > :58:23.improve as a weather front sinks south. So you can see where we have

:58:24. > :58:28.the earlier holes. All this cloud sinking south. The bright white is a

:58:29. > :58:31.weather front. That weather front is producing rain and the rain will

:58:32. > :58:35.continue its journey moving towards the South East through the course

:58:36. > :58:39.kft day accompanied by gusty winds. Behind it, brighter skies already

:58:40. > :58:43.across Scotland and Northern Ireland will filter down into Northern

:58:44. > :58:47.England and Wales. But with them comes the colder weather that

:58:48. > :58:51.Victoria as alluding to. Colder and showery at that. So it is the far

:58:52. > :58:55.south-east that will hang on to the highest temperatures as we go

:58:56. > :58:59.through the early part of this week. Even so they are going to be coming

:59:00. > :59:03.down. There is the rain continuing its journey, when you see yellows

:59:04. > :59:08.and greens that denotes heavier bursts of rain. It is a windy day

:59:09. > :59:12.particularly windy this morning across the Western Isles, but by

:59:13. > :59:15.this afternoon the strongest winds will be across the Northern Isles,

:59:16. > :59:19.particularly Shetlandment here too, there will be showers. Showers and

:59:20. > :59:22.sunshine across the rest of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and some

:59:23. > :59:26.getting into Northern England. Maybe a little bit of hail mixed in, but

:59:27. > :59:29.any snow will be on the hills. Brightening up after this morning's

:59:30. > :59:32.rain across Wales. Here is our weather front draped acrosses East

:59:33. > :59:36.Anglia and through the Midlands and into the South East and extending

:59:37. > :59:40.down into the Channel Islands. Behind it, it will slowly start to

:59:41. > :59:43.brighten up across the south-west, but there will be showers this

:59:44. > :59:46.afternoon. These are the temperatures you can expect if

:59:47. > :59:49.you're stepping out. Seven to ten Celsius in the north. Still 13

:59:50. > :59:52.Celsius or 14 Celsius, but not feeling particularly special in the

:59:53. > :59:58.South East with the rain. That rain clears away on to the near Continent

:59:59. > :00:02.leaving clearer skies and a real rash of showers coming in. Some of

:00:03. > :00:05.the showers across Northern Ireland, Scotland, Northern England too will

:00:06. > :00:10.be of snow. Some of them even at lower levels. There is also the risk

:00:11. > :00:14.of ice. Any showers, southern England and Wales are more likely

:00:15. > :00:18.going to be of rain, but it will be a cold start to the day. Much colder

:00:19. > :00:24.than it was this morning, but a lot of sunshine. Now, tomorrow we carry

:00:25. > :00:28.on with the showers, some of those wintry, but the wintry flavour will

:00:29. > :00:31.be largely on the hills, but look at those temperatures, four Celsius in

:00:32. > :00:36.Glasgow and six Celsius in Newcastle, but 11 Celsius in London.

:00:37. > :00:39.Hello it's Monday, it's 10am, I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

:00:40. > :00:42.More than a million single parent families are chasing thousands

:00:43. > :00:47.of pounds in unpaid child maintenance; the total owed

:00:48. > :00:55.And some have been chasing that money for years.

:00:56. > :01:02.I just didn't have the money to look after him. I don't understand how a

:01:03. > :01:05.father can get away with not paying it. How can he sleep at night? How

:01:06. > :01:10.can he sleep at night when that's his whiled that he owes money to? I

:01:11. > :01:12.don't know how he sleeps, I really don't.

:01:13. > :01:15.We'll be speaking to a mum who says she's owed money

:01:16. > :01:18.as well as a charity and an MP who can tell us how

:01:19. > :01:23.It's not just professional athletes who dope; a third of amateur sports

:01:24. > :01:25.people say they know someone personally who has doped according

:01:26. > :01:31.Were you ever scared of getting caught?

:01:32. > :01:35.Like I say the real thing for wasn't racing.

:01:36. > :01:37.I didn't do a lot of racing on those substances.

:01:38. > :01:45.Vera Lynn, the World War II singer, turns 100 today.

:01:46. > :01:56.Events across the UK will celebrate her life.

:01:57. > :02:17.# There'll be blue Birds over # The Whitecliffsofdover #

:02:18. > :02:22.Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:02:23. > :02:25.Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering

:02:26. > :02:27.a one-year-old boy at a flat in North London.

:02:28. > :02:30.The man will also be questioned on suspicion

:02:31. > :02:35.of attempting to murder a girl, thought to be the boy's twin sister.

:02:36. > :02:38.The boy died in the early hours of Sunday and the girl remains

:02:39. > :02:39.in a critical condition in hospital.

:02:40. > :02:43.Care companies have cancelled contracts with 95 UK councils,

:02:44. > :02:47.saying they cannot deliver services for the amount they are being paid.

:02:48. > :02:50.A BBC Panorama investigation found some firms said

:02:51. > :02:55.they could not recruit or retain the staff they needed.

:02:56. > :02:58.The Local Government Association said the situation was the result

:02:59. > :02:59.of "historic under-funding" and an ageing population.

:03:00. > :03:04.Figures obtained by this programme show 1.2 million single-parent

:03:05. > :03:07.families are owed child maintenance in the UK.

:03:08. > :03:09.Many of those families have been chasing the payments for years,

:03:10. > :03:12.and government figures suggest the total child maintenance debt

:03:13. > :03:18.At least 17 people have been killed in Ghana when a huge tree was swept

:03:19. > :03:23.over a waterfall and crashed down onto a group of swimmers below.

:03:24. > :03:27.The tree had been uprooted during a powerful storm.

:03:28. > :03:39.Most of those killed were high school pupils.

:03:40. > :03:55.A public toilet in Japan has inserted a facial recognition system

:03:56. > :04:15.to stop people taking large amounts of loo roll home.

:04:16. > :04:19.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:04:20. > :04:22.use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text, you will be charged

:04:23. > :04:26.We can join Olly at the BBC Sport Centre now.

:04:27. > :04:29.At the start of our State of Sport week across the BBC,

:04:30. > :04:31.the head of UK anti-doping Nicole Sapstead says she's alarmed

:04:32. > :04:35.at the results of a BBC Poll looking at Doping in Amateur sport,

:04:36. > :04:41.Over a 1000 sportsmen and women took aprt and 35 percent said they knew

:04:42. > :04:53.Certainly the figures are incredibly alarming. That said, they do confirm

:04:54. > :04:59.what UK anti-doping has long suspected and also seen through some

:05:00. > :05:02.of our intelligence-led testing. The problem with amateur sport is that

:05:03. > :05:06.people don't think they're going to be tested.

:05:07. > :05:13.lost ground on the Premier League leaders Chelsea after a 1-1 draw

:05:14. > :05:17.James Milner had given Liverpool the lead from the penalty spot

:05:18. > :05:20.but Sergio Aguero equalised for City midway through the second half.

:05:21. > :05:25.Tottenham have gone clear in second place, 2 points ahead of City but 10

:05:26. > :05:31.Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli scored the goals that beat

:05:32. > :05:38.Southampton 2-1 at White Hart Lane yesterday Celtic are 25 points clear

:05:39. > :05:40.Southampton 2-1 at White Hart Lane yesterday.

:05:41. > :05:48.With 9 games to go one more win will do for the title They won

:05:49. > :05:51.With 9 games to go one more win will do for the title.

:05:52. > :05:56.Some really tragic news from Irish football and the Derry City captain,

:05:57. > :05:59.Ryan McBride, has died suddenly at the age of 27.

:06:00. > :06:03.On Saturday he led his side to a 4-0 win over Drogheda United

:06:04. > :06:05.in the League of Ireland Premier Division.

:06:06. > :06:20.Leicester Tigers have won the Anglo Welsh Cup

:06:21. > :06:28.Tom Brady scored their only try in a 16-12 win over

:06:29. > :06:33.The win ends a four year trophy drought for the Tigers,

:06:34. > :06:35.whilst it was the second year running that Exeter

:06:36. > :06:39.Roger Federer's Indian summer continues.

:06:40. > :06:44.After an 18th Major win at the Australian Open in January

:06:45. > :06:47.he's become the oldest player to win an ATP Masters title.

:06:48. > :06:50.Federer, who is now 35 years old, missed a lot of last year

:06:51. > :06:54.with a knee problem, but he is a rejeuvenated player,

:06:55. > :06:57.and he's won the prestigious Indian Wells tournament

:06:58. > :07:17.This programme can reveal that amount of unpaid child maintenance

:07:18. > :07:20.parents are currently chasing stands at ?3.8 billion.

:07:21. > :07:24.The money is owed by non-resident parents, or absent parents,

:07:25. > :07:27.and has built up over the last 23 years.

:07:28. > :07:30.It affects 1.2 million people across the country.

:07:31. > :07:33.Our reporter Nicola Rees has been speaking to some

:07:34. > :07:37.We played you her full report an hour ago.

:07:38. > :07:48.Laura lives in Sheffield. Her son is ten years old. His dad has been

:07:49. > :07:55.assessed and should be paying maintenance. Bought him a couple of

:07:56. > :08:04.books. ?50 at the beginning in 2009. We are now in 2017 and the total

:08:05. > :08:08.amount that he owes Louis is ?9,000. What was it like for you

:08:09. > :08:16.particularly early on to survive on one income? I'm sort of taking him

:08:17. > :08:21.to the park, get a picnic every single day, take a book, you know, I

:08:22. > :08:28.did my best. I would have liked to have done more. When couples split

:08:29. > :08:33.up, they are both expected to condition tribute to the cost of

:08:34. > :08:38.bringing up their children. Almost 1.2 million parents in the UK have

:08:39. > :08:42.failed to pay a total of ?3.8 billion in child maintenance. The

:08:43. > :08:47.Child Support Agency was set up to help families in 1993, but it's been

:08:48. > :08:50.dogged with problems. Computer systems didn't work properly and

:08:51. > :08:54.parents who didn't pay up weren't tracked down.

:08:55. > :09:01.Shouldn't just be able to walk away and say it's history when it's due

:09:02. > :09:04.to their errors and their poor practice that money hasn't been

:09:05. > :09:11.collected. That's wrong and the Government should pay for that. Over

:09:12. > :09:14.23 years, a multibillion pound arrears debt has accumulated. It's

:09:15. > :09:20.money that should have been available for children. I'll pop you

:09:21. > :09:28.on hold a moment... For Laura, the fight is far from over.

:09:29. > :09:37.Right, I've got ?9,109. OK, that's the figure I've got. So what's

:09:38. > :09:44.happening with that money? Laura's former partner is a children's

:09:45. > :09:48.entertainer in Brighton. We asked him why he hasn't paid maintenance

:09:49. > :09:51.for Louis and he declined to comment. In a statement, the

:09:52. > :10:03.Government said: In 2012, the child maintenance

:10:04. > :10:09.service replaced the CSA with new IT systems and it was supposed to solve

:10:10. > :10:12.the arrears problem. It's already clocked up ?93 million in

:10:13. > :10:18.maintenance debts. At the moment, there are still questions to be

:10:19. > :10:23.asked about how much effort it's put into chasing those who choose not to

:10:24. > :10:29.pay. We don't think as yet it's got that right. I don't understand how a

:10:30. > :10:34.father can get away with not paying it. How can he sleep at night? How

:10:35. > :10:36.can he sleep at night when that's his whiled he owes money to? I don't

:10:37. > :10:40.know how he sleeps, I really don't. If your ex partner isn't

:10:41. > :10:43.paying child maintenance Really keen to hear how you cope

:10:44. > :10:47.without it and what've As you'd expect, we asked

:10:48. > :10:51.the Department of Work Pensions Let's talk to Heather,

:10:52. > :10:56.a mum who's spent 6 years chasing almost ?3000 in child maintenance

:10:57. > :10:59.arrears for her daughter. Conservative MP Heidi Allen

:11:00. > :11:07.who is part of a group of Mps who've been investigating child maintenance

:11:08. > :11:08.arrears; their report Janet Allbeson from the single

:11:09. > :11:13.parent charity Gingerbread And Michael l Lewkowicz,

:11:14. > :11:15.from the charity There is ?93 million

:11:16. > :11:30.of unpaid maintenance under Heather, hello, you're still

:11:31. > :11:34.fighting for the arrears, what has it been like getting that money?

:11:35. > :11:42.It's been horrendous, I've had to do all the chasing and investigating.

:11:43. > :11:45.I've had to get my MP involved to assist because they've never done

:11:46. > :11:50.anything about it, the Child Support Agency. Because he's self-employed,

:11:51. > :11:54.they would only go on what he'd say they were earning and I was

:11:55. > :11:58.obviously convinced he was earning more money and I wanted them to

:11:59. > :12:03.carry out a financial investigation but they wouldn't do it. So after a

:12:04. > :12:08.year of chasing them, I had to get my MP involved who wrote a letter to

:12:09. > :12:11.them and then they carried out a financial investigation and found

:12:12. > :12:15.that he had more money in his bank account than he was declaring. He

:12:16. > :12:21.was allowed to appeal and we went to a tribunal. The tribunal dismissed

:12:22. > :12:27.his appeal and awarded me, well my daughter the sum that the CSA said

:12:28. > :12:31.he owed. On top of that, I had already swapped over to the child

:12:32. > :12:34.maintenance service and obviously I had to get them to recalculate the

:12:35. > :12:39.payment that he should have been making from them once we got the

:12:40. > :12:44.figures correct for his earnings. At first, they said they wouldn't back

:12:45. > :12:50.date the arrears to the start of my claim so again I got my MP involved

:12:51. > :12:53.who wrote to them again and they then agreed to back date them which

:12:54. > :12:58.is why we have got the arrears they've got now. But they will not

:12:59. > :13:06.do anything to force him to pay the arrears. They say that their

:13:07. > :13:09.objective is to get a regular maintenance payment but the arrears

:13:10. > :13:14.come second. They do have a priority in how they collect the money, they

:13:15. > :13:22.say, and their fees, their 4% charge I pay is more important to them and

:13:23. > :13:26.hiring their priorities than my ayears. Do you think the child

:13:27. > :13:29.maintenance service is what went before, the Child Support Agency? We

:13:30. > :13:33.are very worried it's taking the same approach which is to say that

:13:34. > :13:39.as long as you pay something that's good enough. They seem very slow,

:13:40. > :13:43.very Le that are tick to collect back money. That creates a hole in

:13:44. > :13:46.single parents' budgets. There are bills they can't pay, they savings

:13:47. > :13:51.get run-down. That debt really matters. It's not just paying money

:13:52. > :13:54.this week and promising to do it in future, it's the money you owe from

:13:55. > :13:59.the past and they should be doing more to collect that. We'll talk to

:14:00. > :14:04.Heidi about that in a moment. Michael on behalf of fathers, the

:14:05. > :14:08.dads who're paying child maintenance, what are they saying

:14:09. > :14:14.about how they're treated? They have a similar experience, contacting the

:14:15. > :14:20.RSA or CMS, faced with dozens of phone calls and they say, the

:14:21. > :14:26.computer says we can't listen to your point -- the CSA. The formula

:14:27. > :14:28.that CMS uses doesn't take into account the essential

:14:29. > :14:34.cost-of-living, the basic threshold at which they start to make payments

:14:35. > :14:39.hasn't been reviewed since 1998 which means that they get pushed

:14:40. > :14:41.into a place where with cost ofleying having increased

:14:42. > :14:45.dramatically over that time they, however much they would like to

:14:46. > :14:50.contribute more, the large number cannot and we know that there are

:14:51. > :14:53.56% of all the arrears cases are actually for people owing less than

:14:54. > :14:58.?1,000. These are people who simply don't have the money to pay it even

:14:59. > :15:03.though they would very much wish to support their parent... Their

:15:04. > :15:07.children? Yes. Do you accept that some exes do lie about their incomes

:15:08. > :15:14.so they don't pay as much as they should? That happens in any system,

:15:15. > :15:17.people try to minimise what they owe, whether it's tax or child

:15:18. > :15:21.maintenance. We believe that both parents really should be supporting

:15:22. > :15:25.their parents both financially and non-financially and the people we

:15:26. > :15:29.get 25,000 calls to the helplines from fathers every year and these

:15:30. > :15:31.are people who desperately want to maintain their involvement with

:15:32. > :15:36.their children, want to be able to support them, but when we carried

:15:37. > :15:40.out a large scale survey of our service users, what really shocked

:15:41. > :15:44.and surprised us, we weren't expecting this as a response, was

:15:45. > :15:48.just how many people were saying, I can't afford it, I'm feeling

:15:49. > :15:49.suicidal, I'm having to live with my parents without whose help I

:15:50. > :16:00.wouldn't be able to pay maintenance. Heidi you and your fellow MPs have

:16:01. > :16:04.been looking at this. What can you do to make the child maintenance

:16:05. > :16:07.service for efficient and more effective when it comes to

:16:08. > :16:10.collecting maintenance now and arrears? We have to understand what

:16:11. > :16:15.we want the system for because we found time and time again in our

:16:16. > :16:18.evidence where there is an amicable split parents get on with it and

:16:19. > :16:22.they do the best thing for the children. If the Government is going

:16:23. > :16:27.to have a system because when these arrears aren't collected and the

:16:28. > :16:30.real issue with self mroult, I'm self-employed, declared earnings,

:16:31. > :16:34.this is fraud to HMRC. From that point of view the Government does

:16:35. > :16:38.have a role, I believe, also to keep these mums in employment, not

:16:39. > :16:43.claiming benefits. They should be out there so it is a double cost to

:16:44. > :16:46.the taxpayer. We need a system that has effective enforcement powers and

:16:47. > :16:49.let's the court do the job if the court is the more effective way of

:16:50. > :16:54.identifying what somebody should owe, but at the moment the CMS seems

:16:55. > :16:59.to be causing more of a blockage in some instances. Example of court

:17:00. > :17:06.awarding or saying that a parent should pay ?3500 a month in arrears,

:17:07. > :17:13.very wealthy and by the time it got into hands of the CMS it was ?11.

:17:14. > :17:16.What? We are talking about, not everybody, of course, behaves, there

:17:17. > :17:20.are the rotten apples that are out there. At the minute I'm

:17:21. > :17:24.self-employed again, you need to reassess my income. So people are

:17:25. > :17:28.deliberately moving between employment and self employment

:17:29. > :17:31.because they know they'll get reassessed so they are playing the

:17:32. > :17:34.system? It is one of the most fundamental flaws in the system.

:17:35. > :17:38.What recommendation can you come up with in your report which is due

:17:39. > :17:44.next week to stop that? One basic thing we'd like to see, if the old

:17:45. > :17:48.CSA system there was a thing called lifestyle incompatible with income.

:17:49. > :17:51.Look at the house, the cars, the holidays, this parent isn't earning,

:17:52. > :17:56.you know, minimum wage. That used to be taken into account. That's been

:17:57. > :18:01.removed in the new CMS system and that's a fundamental tool that we

:18:02. > :18:04.need. I'd like to see greater enforcement powers, more staff

:18:05. > :18:10.chasing up and those arrears are so important. There seems to be, I

:18:11. > :18:15.understand prioritisation with resource in the DWP, but these

:18:16. > :18:23.arrears, ?500 and ?1,000 might seem a small amount to many in the grand

:18:24. > :18:27.scheme of things, but when we are talking families on low incomes,

:18:28. > :18:31.this is a huge amount of money. Some of the things coming in the report,

:18:32. > :18:37.will they work? Is that what's needed? She's right that they have

:18:38. > :18:41.gone from a model which is simple and cheap to operate, but it is not

:18:42. > :18:45.giving a fair deal and when it comes to arrears, that can take effort and

:18:46. > :18:50.resources. Particularly when someone is self-employed. It is easy to hide

:18:51. > :18:53.and it is almost like if it becomes too difficult, they won't bother and

:18:54. > :18:56.that's not acceptable because children of traders and business

:18:57. > :19:00.people they need child maintenance like everyone else. That's right

:19:01. > :19:04.when they're self-employed they don't want to know. It is too much

:19:05. > :19:09.like hard work for them to do any investigations and they just let it

:19:10. > :19:14.go and they just listen to what they're saying, what their earnings

:19:15. > :19:19.are. I have been told that we can only work things out on what he's

:19:20. > :19:26.telling us that he's earning. I know he's earning more money than that, I

:19:27. > :19:30.know, he is. HMRC under the new system will be able to look at what

:19:31. > :19:38.the tax return is. If they're fiddling the tax figures... They

:19:39. > :19:42.don't. That's not on there. Let Michael finish. The other thing

:19:43. > :19:45.which is, there is a second fundamental flaw of the assessment

:19:46. > :19:49.system which is how it works in shared parenting arrangements.

:19:50. > :19:54.Currently, we have a system which effectively divides parents into the

:19:55. > :19:57.old-fashioned way of looking at provider, father, and carer, mother.

:19:58. > :20:02.It doesn't take into account that a lot of people would and do have

:20:03. > :20:09.shared parenting arrangements and it discourages them. So for example, if

:20:10. > :20:12.the parent more or less share equal parenting after they've separated

:20:13. > :20:17.between them then actually all of the benefits and allowances for the

:20:18. > :20:21.child go to the one parent who has got slightly more time than the

:20:22. > :20:25.other. Which can be five, ten, ?15,000 a year. They will on top of

:20:26. > :20:28.that be expected to make child maintenance payments. So although

:20:29. > :20:32.they're both caring for their child and giving their love and attention

:20:33. > :20:36.and care as well as practical, physical care for their children,

:20:37. > :20:42.the formula actually doesn't reflect it and it undermines the principles

:20:43. > :20:46.of the 2014 Children and Families Act which encourages shared

:20:47. > :20:51.parenting. It obstructs it. Let me read some messages. Michelle

:20:52. > :20:55.e-mailed to say, "My children's father has religious paid paint nans

:20:56. > :21:00.for our three children for the past 13 years. He has provided ?50. He is

:21:01. > :21:05.a self-employed painter and decorator and he earns ?200 a month

:21:06. > :21:11.according to his accountant. This isn't true. I asked Government

:21:12. > :21:15.authorities for help. They, the CS and the tax authorities ask me to

:21:16. > :21:19.investigate him and provide evidence. My children's father and

:21:20. > :21:23.the Government have let us down." Grace says, "I never received a

:21:24. > :21:26.penny towards the cost of bringing up my children. Their father could

:21:27. > :21:29.afford new cars and frequent holidays while we were watching

:21:30. > :21:35.every penny and buying from discount and second-hand shops. He never

:21:36. > :21:39.looked after them or did any work connected with their upbringing."

:21:40. > :21:46.What was it, lifestyle incompatible with income and if you're driving a

:21:47. > :21:55.Ferrari and say you're only on ?200 a month, something doesn't add up.

:21:56. > :21:59.It is in the CMS' interest... We've had people ringing us say they rung

:22:00. > :22:03.the abuse helpline and the guy on the end of the phone said, "What do

:22:04. > :22:06.you expect us to do about it? We're getting inundated with calls from

:22:07. > :22:11.ex-partners demanding we investigate income. We haven't got the

:22:12. > :22:15.resources." Unless HMRC work by the biggest bang for the buck and these

:22:16. > :22:18.are small traders, small businessmen, they are not a priority

:22:19. > :22:21.and that means children are losing out. Thank you so much all of you.

:22:22. > :22:25.Thank you for coming on the programme. Cheers, Heather as well.

:22:26. > :22:31.Thank you for your time, we appreciate it.

:22:32. > :22:35.Since the murder of the MP Jo Cox last June,

:22:36. > :22:37.police have investigated 53 crimes against Members of Parliament.

:22:38. > :22:42.We will hear from one MP who is installing security systems in his

:22:43. > :22:49.home because he is worried. Drug use at every level of sport

:22:50. > :22:52.is "fast becoming a crisis"- that's the verdict of UK

:22:53. > :22:54.Anti-Doping, who have described a BBC poll which shows widespread

:22:55. > :22:56.doping in amateur sport It found more than a third

:22:57. > :23:00.of amateur sports people say they personally know someone who has

:23:01. > :23:03.doped, and 8% say they Half believe performance enhancing

:23:04. > :24:35.substance use is "widespread" among I'm calling to sports within the UK

:24:36. > :24:44.to help fund a robust and extensive anti-doping programme.

:24:45. > :24:45.Former amateur cyclist Dan Stevens was banned

:24:46. > :24:49.He told BBC Sport it wasn't about winning,

:24:50. > :24:58.Were you ever scared of getting caught?

:24:59. > :25:04.And like I say, I think the real thing for me wasn't really about

:25:05. > :25:08.racing, I didn't do a lot of racing on these substances.

:25:09. > :25:11.The main thing was curiosity. What does this do?

:25:12. > :25:16.How much of a benefit does this give you?

:25:17. > :25:19.And how does that change perceptions of what you need to do

:25:20. > :25:29.I think it's widespread in all ranks.

:25:30. > :25:31.I think it's widespread in celebrity,

:25:32. > :25:33.I think it's widespread in the beauty industry,

:25:34. > :25:34.I think it's certainly widespread

:25:35. > :25:40.I also think it's just a way of modern-day life.

:25:41. > :25:44.So how widespread is doping in amateur sport?

:25:45. > :25:50.We can speak to Professor John Brewer who is a professor of Sport's

:25:51. > :25:53.We can speak to Professor John Brewer who is a professor of sports

:25:54. > :25:55.science at St Mary's University, London.

:25:56. > :25:57.He's also a board member at UK Anti-Doping.

:25:58. > :25:59.We also have Michelle Verroken from our Oxford news room,

:26:00. > :26:08.Why do you think it is as widespread as it is in amateur sport? I think

:26:09. > :26:12.it is. The figures are shocking. We have known for sometime there has

:26:13. > :26:16.been a lot of use of banned substances. There are a number of

:26:17. > :26:20.reasons and it does vary from one sport to another. Some athletes,

:26:21. > :26:24.individuals, will try to improve their performance and want to get in

:26:25. > :26:27.the first 15 and want to do better in road races or cycling events and

:26:28. > :26:33.there are others who do it for the image. They want to have that great

:26:34. > :26:36.six pack and build up the muscle bulk and look good. We have called

:26:37. > :26:40.it amateur, but we must remember even at that level, people can earn

:26:41. > :26:44.substantial amounts of money at the weekend winning races, playing for

:26:45. > :26:50.their rugby team doing well at sport. The incentive to do that and

:26:51. > :26:55.to continue doing so for as long as you can is great. The substances

:26:56. > :26:59.available through the criminal punned world and in gyms, and the

:27:00. > :27:02.internet and people can access those substances and use them to enhance

:27:03. > :27:08.their performance. Michelle, do you think this is a big deal? Well,

:27:09. > :27:12.certainly, I don't think it is a surprise because we've always known

:27:13. > :27:17.that at amateur level certainly there has been the interest in

:27:18. > :27:22.trying to supplement or enhance performance, but we've seen in this

:27:23. > :27:28.country particularly a change in the sports culture to a really a no

:27:29. > :27:33.compromise, anything to win, medals are so important and so we shouldn't

:27:34. > :27:37.be surprised that people a the community lel of sport are looking

:27:38. > :27:41.to the elite sports people and thinking, "Well, how do I get to be

:27:42. > :27:45.as good as them?" Do you buy that? Yeah, I do. Michelle is right and I

:27:46. > :27:53.think that the problem is the incentive is there to do so and I

:27:54. > :27:58.agree with Nicole Sapstead who says we need for substantial funding of

:27:59. > :28:07.the anti-doping authorities. If you compare one medal that Team GB won

:28:08. > :28:11.at the Rio Games. OK, so you say more money for testing including

:28:12. > :28:15.testing amateurs? Again, it is how you define amateurs and it is that

:28:16. > :28:20.level where you have aspiring athletes who want to get on to the

:28:21. > :28:23.performance pathway and earn the bigger money. Amateur doesn't exist

:28:24. > :28:27.at that level where we're seeing a lot of the drug taking. You play

:28:28. > :28:32.rugby for your local team today. You can earn money in a greater way than

:28:33. > :28:36.you could 10, 15 or 20 years ago. So there is that incentive to do so.

:28:37. > :28:40.There are the other reasons, there is the body beautiful image factor,

:28:41. > :28:45.the incentive and the ability is there, we need to work closely with

:28:46. > :28:48.the national governing bodies of sport that runs sport from

:28:49. > :28:55.grass-roots level up to elite level to get them to support the targeted

:28:56. > :28:58.testing at recreational level which only happens at the elite level

:28:59. > :29:02.because that's all the funding allows us to do. Would you agree

:29:03. > :29:06.more cash to do targeted testing? What I'm concerned about is that

:29:07. > :29:10.this particular research has been turned into a cry for more money for

:29:11. > :29:17.anti-doping. I actually think we have to be quite honest and say

:29:18. > :29:23.well, testing is quite limited in its effectiveness and do we really

:29:24. > :29:27.want to extend testing down to amateur level so that actually we

:29:28. > :29:31.could be dissuading people from getting involved in sport and I mean

:29:32. > :29:36.it would be inappropriate in a society where we've got an obesity

:29:37. > :29:42.crisis, a concern with the lack of physical activity, that sudden we

:29:43. > :29:46.start sanctioning and testing at the amateur level and in fact fact

:29:47. > :29:51.people are dissuaded from taking part in activities. In countries

:29:52. > :29:55.like Denmark, Norway, they do test in the gyms and that's part of what

:29:56. > :29:59.you sign up to, but I think it's vital we think about what we really

:30:00. > :30:04.need to do because we don't know at the elite level how much testing is

:30:05. > :30:08.enough. We tested Lance Armstrong, Marian Jones extensively and never

:30:09. > :30:13.ever tested them positive. So, smarter testing by all means, but

:30:14. > :30:19.also we need to break this monopoly. We have one national anti-doping

:30:20. > :30:22.organisation trying to now extend its tentacles into recognisery

:30:23. > :30:26.rational level sport when in actual fact this could become something

:30:27. > :30:27.that is more about the integrity of the way we live our lives. Thank you

:30:28. > :30:39.both. Thank you very much. Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom

:30:40. > :30:42.with a summary of the news. Police have arrested a man

:30:43. > :30:44.on suspicion of murdering a one-year-old boy at a flat

:30:45. > :30:46.in North London. The man will also be

:30:47. > :30:49.questioned on suspicion of attempting to murder a girl,

:30:50. > :30:52.thought to be the boy's twin sister. The boy died in the early hours

:30:53. > :30:55.of Sunday and the girl remains in a critical condition

:30:56. > :30:56.in hospital. Care companies have cancelled

:30:57. > :30:59.contracts with 95 UK councils, saying they cannot deliver services

:31:00. > :31:01.for the amount they are being paid. A BBC Panorama investigation

:31:02. > :31:03.found some firms said they could not recruit or retain

:31:04. > :31:06.the staff they needed. The Local Government Association

:31:07. > :31:09.said the situation was the result of "historic under-funding"

:31:10. > :31:14.and an ageing population. Figures obtained by this programme

:31:15. > :31:17.show 1.2 million single-parent families are owed child maintenance

:31:18. > :31:20.in the UK. Many of those families have been

:31:21. > :31:24.chasing the payments for years, and government figures suggest

:31:25. > :31:27.the total child maintenance debt At least 17 people have been killed

:31:28. > :31:34.in Ghana when a huge tree was swept over a waterfall and crashed down

:31:35. > :31:37.onto a group of swimmers below. The tree had been uprooted

:31:38. > :31:40.during a powerful storm. Most of those killed

:31:41. > :31:44.were high school pupils. The director of the FBI,

:31:45. > :31:48.James Comey, will give evidence today about alleged Russian

:31:49. > :31:50.interference in the US Appearing before the House

:31:51. > :31:55.Intelligence Committee, he's also expected to face questions

:31:56. > :31:59.about a second explosive issue - President Trump's claim

:32:00. > :32:02.that his predecessor, Barack Obama, authorised a wire-tap

:32:03. > :32:12.of Trump Tower during the campaign. That's a summary of the latest news,

:32:13. > :32:24.join me for BBC Newsroom Laura has an 18-month-old daughter,

:32:25. > :32:28.breast-fed her for seven or eight months. I tried to give her breast

:32:29. > :32:33.milk from a bottle and I was asked by others in public why I wasn't

:32:34. > :32:40.breast-feeding. The bigger my daughter got, I was asked why I was

:32:41. > :32:49.still breast-feeding. You can't win. You maybe want to put Socks on that

:32:50. > :32:55.child, some youngsters muttered. My child took her own Socks off. The

:32:56. > :33:07.first time I was in a pub since my daughter had been

:33:08. > :33:18.born, she was five months, I had a pint of cider. A person muttered

:33:19. > :33:22.about me. There is nothing wrong with having a pint of cider with

:33:23. > :33:24.your Sunday lunch even if you have had a baby, it's fine! Now the

:33:25. > :33:26.sport. Olly Foster has the morning's

:33:27. > :33:29.sports headlines now. These are headlines this morning

:33:30. > :33:32.at the start of our state of sport The head of UK anti-doping

:33:33. > :33:36.Nicole Sapstead says she's alarmed at the results of a BBC Poll looking

:33:37. > :33:39.at doping in amateur sport. 35% said they have

:33:40. > :33:41.known someone who used In the Premier League,

:33:42. > :33:49.Manchester City and Liverpool remain third and fourth in the table

:33:50. > :33:52.after cancelling each other out Sergio Aguero scored City's

:33:53. > :33:58.equaliser in the 1-1 draw Tottenham Hotspur are now clear

:33:59. > :34:01.in second place after beating Christian Eriksen and Dele

:34:02. > :34:06.Alli scored the goals. They are ten points

:34:07. > :34:08.behind leaders Chelsea. And the rejeuvenated Roger Federer

:34:09. > :34:11.has won his second title of the year after an 18th major triumph

:34:12. > :34:13.at the Australian Open. The 35-year-has become then oldest

:34:14. > :34:17.man to win an ATP Masters title. He beat fellow swiss Stan Wawrinka

:34:18. > :34:21.in the Indian Wells final. I'll be back with more

:34:22. > :34:23.sport on BBC News Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces'

:34:24. > :34:32.Sweetheart is 100 years old today. A 350-foot image of her

:34:33. > :34:36.projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover last night

:34:37. > :34:41.although a flypast by a pair of spitfires over the cliffs set

:34:42. > :34:45.for 11 am this morning has # The white cliffs

:34:46. > :35:03.of Dover # The little things that made

:35:04. > :35:18.you cry # There were angels

:35:19. > :35:34.dining at the Ritz... # But I know we'll meet

:35:35. > :35:55.again some sunny day. # England shall be free # If England

:35:56. > :36:14.means as much to you Dame Vera Lynn says she's thrilled

:36:15. > :36:27.by the tributes and will be thinking of all those servicemen and women

:36:28. > :36:31.who'd glanced back at the White Cliffs of Dover

:36:32. > :36:34.they'd headed off to war. This is her speaking

:36:35. > :36:37.with her daughter Virginia on a special programme for her 100th

:36:38. > :36:54.birthday on BBC Two on Saturday. What decided you to go to Burma?

:36:55. > :37:03.Well, I just wanted to go somewhere that nobody had been before. Yes. So

:37:04. > :37:10.they said, no-one's gone to Burma yet. So I said, right, that's where

:37:11. > :37:16.I'll go. Because it was very hot and humid out there. Very hot? Very hot.

:37:17. > :37:22.Couldn't wear make-up, only a lipstick. That was the first mistake

:37:23. > :37:27.I made, putting make-up on. And the other one was? Having a perm wasn't

:37:28. > :37:34.it? Oh, yes, I shouldn't have had a perm. I had terrible trouble. It

:37:35. > :37:42.would have been easier to control with my hair straight. It went all

:37:43. > :37:47.phrasy. There's Len on the left. You just had Len on piano didn't you?

:37:48. > :37:56.Yes. We used to carry that around with us. Not literally. In a little

:37:57. > :38:01.truck. It didn't suffer an awful lot when you consider in the state of

:38:02. > :38:08.the roads. We did have trouble at one time when we just started a

:38:09. > :38:13.concert and the sides fell off. The sides of the piano fell off and the

:38:14. > :38:15.boys had to rush up and hold the sides on before we could continue

:38:16. > :38:24.the programme. A lot of flies around out there

:38:25. > :38:29.weren't there? Oh, yes, they used to settle on my bowl of soup and I

:38:30. > :38:31.useded to have to skim them off with my spoon and try and duck underneath

:38:32. > :38:35.the flies so I could get some soup. The Queen wrote to her to mark

:38:36. > :38:38.her birthday saying, "You cheered and uplifted us

:38:39. > :38:41.all in the war and after the war, and I am sure that this evening

:38:42. > :38:46.the blue birds of Dover will be flying over to wish you a happy

:38:47. > :38:50.anniversary, Elizabeth R." Full coverage of the tributes to her

:38:51. > :39:03.throughout the day on BBC News. Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson

:39:04. > :39:06.has warned that the party is facing a battle for its existence

:39:07. > :39:08.because of what he's labelled a "secret plan" by the Unite union

:39:09. > :39:11.to support the left-wing Our political guru Norman Smith

:39:12. > :39:27.is at the Unison headquarters Remind us who Momentum are? Jeremy

:39:28. > :39:32.Corbyn's number two says there is a secret plot by Momentum to take over

:39:33. > :39:37.the Labour Party and, says Mr Watson, they are poised to get large

:39:38. > :39:42.amounts of funding from Labour's biggest union, Unite. He says,

:39:43. > :39:48.following a tape-recording of a conversation by the man in charge of

:39:49. > :39:54.Momentum, John Lanceman, there are apparently plans to take over

:39:55. > :39:58.regional Labour Parties to get rid of critical local councillors to

:39:59. > :40:02.take over the machinery of the Labour Party, to reintroduce

:40:03. > :40:07.mandatory reselection to get rid of MPs opposed to Jeremy Corbyn. There

:40:08. > :40:12.is an orchestrated campaign, he says, to take over the Labour Party.

:40:13. > :40:17.Now, it's one thing to believe that, but Mr Watson's chosen to go public

:40:18. > :40:22.with such concerns which underlines I think A the seriousness of his

:40:23. > :40:24.fears, but B, the level of in-fighting now within the highest

:40:25. > :40:38.reaches of the Labour Party. Who have you been speaking to about

:40:39. > :40:43.this, Norman? Well, I spoke to Mr Watson this morning who was adamant

:40:44. > :40:49.that this is more serious, he says, than the 1980s when you had

:40:50. > :40:54.militant. Mr Corbyn's team seem to be aghast at the claims. Mr Corbyn

:40:55. > :40:56.himself when arriving for an away-day here, well have a look, he

:40:57. > :40:59.wasn't saying much. Is there a plot to take over

:41:00. > :41:13.the Labour Party Mr Corbyn? So not much joy. His close allie and

:41:14. > :41:15.Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell was a bit more talkative when I got

:41:16. > :41:17.hold of him. What he's trying to do

:41:18. > :41:19.is influence the election of the general secretary

:41:20. > :41:21.of Unite and he's dragged the Labour

:41:22. > :41:24.Party into this, completely From what I've seen, Momentum

:41:25. > :41:27.is like the organisation Tom's associated with, like Labour First

:41:28. > :41:30.and Progress and others who want trade union support, of course

:41:31. > :41:33.they do, and they want trade union At this point in time

:41:34. > :41:36.to be raising it In the week that the ballot papers

:41:37. > :41:41.go out for the Unite election I think this is about Tom's

:41:42. > :41:44.interference in the Unite election. Well, he obviously wants to install

:41:45. > :41:48.the candidate of his choice. Is it part of a move

:41:49. > :41:52.against Mr Corbyn? Len McCluskey is a big

:41:53. > :41:55.backer of Jeremy. I think it's all about Tom

:41:56. > :41:57.and the internal battle Dragging the party into this

:41:58. > :42:08.is disappointing. Mr McDonnell insists, this is not

:42:09. > :42:12.Civil War, but you have to say, looking at it from the outside, it

:42:13. > :42:16.looks remarkably like it when you have the Deputy Leader talking about

:42:17. > :42:21.an orchestrated campaign led in part by the leader of the biggest union

:42:22. > :42:25.supporting the Labour Party to take over the machinery of the Labour

:42:26. > :42:30.Party and move it in another direction all together. These are

:42:31. > :42:35.very, very serious allegations. The response of team Corbyn is to say

:42:36. > :42:39.this is all part of Mr Watson trying to innawns a leadership contest

:42:40. > :42:42.going on within Unite. As for Momentum, they say there's nothing

:42:43. > :42:46.wrong about trying to shift the direction of the Labour Party,

:42:47. > :42:50.they're quite open about their beliefs, yes, they do organise the

:42:51. > :42:54.Labour Party, they want to promote their candidates, what's wrong with

:42:55. > :43:07.that, they say. Thank you very much, Norman.

:43:08. > :43:13.Facebook said it would work with organisations to flag up articles

:43:14. > :43:16.making spurious claims and warn users when they posted the stories.

:43:17. > :43:19.It seems to have put that into practise. One article about claims

:43:20. > :43:25.that thousands of Irish people were taken to the US as slaves now

:43:26. > :43:29.attracts an on screen warping that the claims have been widely disputed

:43:30. > :43:35.-- warning. Ben Thompson is here with us now. Fill us in? I've tried

:43:36. > :43:40.to post that fake news article and it allowed me to do that without any

:43:41. > :43:44.warning whatsoever. About the Irish? And the fake slave trade that was a

:43:45. > :43:47.fake news article, yes. This is very much in the early stages as far as

:43:48. > :43:51.Facebook is concerned. You talk about November when we heard from

:43:52. > :43:57.the boss of Facebook, he said look, we have a duty to make sure what we

:43:58. > :44:01.share online is real. They talked about different proposals, saying

:44:02. > :44:05.they were working on eseven different proposals to make sure

:44:06. > :44:09.what we share online is accurate. It came to line during the EE

:44:10. > :44:15.referendum campaign and the US elections, those were two big

:44:16. > :44:19.criticisms for Facebook -- the EU. The most scandalous headlines and

:44:20. > :44:23.the most wild chimes are the ones that often get shared most. Facebook

:44:24. > :44:29.say they have now, if you post something that they think is fake,

:44:30. > :44:33.you will get a warning and it says that the authenticity of this

:44:34. > :44:37.article's been disputed, do you want to read why and it gives you links

:44:38. > :44:40.to fact-checking websites. You can still post that if you want to but

:44:41. > :44:44.it will come with a warning, we are told. And they've done this because

:44:45. > :44:48.they've worked with two organisations that are checking the

:44:49. > :44:52.accuracy of articles. If they think it's disputed, they'll flag up a

:44:53. > :44:58.warning meaning we should know if what we are sharing is true. How do

:44:59. > :45:03.they work out that the fakeriness of an article? This is when it gets

:45:04. > :45:09.difficult. They are working with different organisations, they have

:45:10. > :45:13.pure fact-checking statistics making sure the data is right. When it's

:45:14. > :45:16.based on news, it's whether the news article is accurate, so

:45:17. > :45:19.organisations like the Associated Press, for example. So they want

:45:20. > :45:23.that from two sources. You need to have two sources to dispute it. What

:45:24. > :45:27.is really interesting, Facebook doesn't say it's not true, they

:45:28. > :45:31.don't say it's fake, they say the authenticity is disputed so it won't

:45:32. > :45:35.go as far as saying it's not true. The big question then comes into

:45:36. > :45:39.Facebook's definition of what is Facebook, is it a publisher of

:45:40. > :45:42.information, a news source or a platform that allows us to share

:45:43. > :45:47.information? And I think if we view it very much as a platform to share

:45:48. > :45:52.information, they have maybe less responsibility over the accuracy of

:45:53. > :45:56.that data, but if they're a publisher, many people say they

:45:57. > :46:02.should be much more aware of what is being published on their website and

:46:03. > :46:10.whether it's true. If you want to post an article on Facebook and the

:46:11. > :46:15.notice disputes it, are you as likely to share that? Or do you not

:46:16. > :46:18.want your mates to go, it's disputed, what are you posting it

:46:19. > :46:22.for? If it will come with a warning saying it might not be true, you can

:46:23. > :46:26.click on the links to find out why, it's that second set of eyes, isn't

:46:27. > :46:30.it, it's that thing that might make us stop for a moment and think, is

:46:31. > :46:33.what we are publishing really true because Facebook, Twitter, all of

:46:34. > :46:38.the social media channels are great because we can share information but

:46:39. > :46:41.I think it's so easy to do that nowadays that you don't probably

:46:42. > :46:44.think about how true it is if you are clicking on share now. Maybe you

:46:45. > :46:49.are right, it gives you that second pause for thought to think, is this

:46:50. > :46:54.true and if not do I real hi want to post it -- really want to post it.

:46:55. > :46:58.That could be enough to make people think about it, and to think about

:46:59. > :47:04.whether that bit of gossip is true before you click share.

:47:05. > :47:08.Death threats, hate-filled messages, harassment and criminal damage,

:47:09. > :47:11.a small snapshot of the kind of abuse MPs have received

:47:12. > :47:17.in the six months after the murder of MP Jo Cox in June.

:47:18. > :47:20.A specialised police team set-up to investigate crimes against MPs

:47:21. > :47:23.says it's looking at 50 complaints in the last six months.

:47:24. > :47:28.So to give us an insight into the kind of abuse MPs get

:47:29. > :47:44.on a regular basis and the impact it has on them,

:47:45. > :47:54.We speak to Tom Brake who is getting security fitted to his home this

:47:55. > :47:58.morning. And MP Lisa Cameron. Tell us what is happening at your home

:47:59. > :48:03.and the reasons why? I'm taking advantage of a package that is

:48:04. > :48:08.provided to members of Parliament to provide a level of security and so

:48:09. > :48:13.this morning I've got someone coming in to upgrade the alarm because the

:48:14. > :48:19.one that I hadn't wasn't deemed to be appropriate and also to look at

:48:20. > :48:34.some of the security measures such as doors and locks and so on. Why?

:48:35. > :48:38.Well, because post the very tragic murder of Jo Cox members of

:48:39. > :48:47.Parliament are vulnerable and many members of Parliament... Didn't you

:48:48. > :48:53.receive a specific e-mail? Yes, I received e-mails. One that post the

:48:54. > :48:58.Brexit vote suggesting that I should consider carefully how I vote in

:48:59. > :49:02.that I needed to vote the right way in the interests of myself and my

:49:03. > :49:05.family. So I think most members of Parliament will receive e-mails of

:49:06. > :49:09.that nature. I don't know if the people who are sending these

:49:10. > :49:13.appreciate what the recipient feels and another thing that's worth

:49:14. > :49:18.pointing out, of course, many members of Parliament, we rely on

:49:19. > :49:22.staff to check social media so they will often be the ones who see the

:49:23. > :49:27.more abusive, aggressive tweets or Facebook posts. What impact does it

:49:28. > :49:30.have on you when you get a threatening message that says, you

:49:31. > :49:37.should watch out for your family. Be very careful how you vote in the

:49:38. > :49:42.future? . The sound cut in and out there, I can't catch that. I was

:49:43. > :49:46.asking you Mr Brake what impact it does have on you when you get a

:49:47. > :49:50.threatening e-mail which refers to your family? Clearly, most members

:49:51. > :49:55.of Parliament, we are, we spend most of our lives actually in Parliament,

:49:56. > :50:00.where we are protected, properly protected. However, our families

:50:01. > :50:04.very often are in the constituency and therefore, anyone who is even

:50:05. > :50:09.alluding to the vulnerability of our family is someone who causes a lot

:50:10. > :50:14.of disaqet for members of Parliament and when the threats are perhaps

:50:15. > :50:18.directed at constituency offices they pose a real, they're very

:50:19. > :50:24.disconcerting for members of staff as well. Dr Lisa cam reportings

:50:25. > :50:28.thank you for talking to us. Tell our audience about some of the

:50:29. > :50:32.horrific messages you have received? I mean, it actually start the day

:50:33. > :50:38.after I was elected to be honest. I went from being a doctor in a local

:50:39. > :50:44.community who was well respected and never received these types of

:50:45. > :50:51.threats online or e-mail, to having received death threats where images

:50:52. > :50:55.of beheaded corpses were sent to me, with threats to my family as and my

:50:56. > :51:01.children's lives and someone put together a letter from newspaper

:51:02. > :51:07.word cuttings and sent it to me also threatening to harm me and my

:51:08. > :51:10.family. So, it's something that I think you can't treat too lightly.

:51:11. > :51:15.The security measures are certainly a step in the right direction and I

:51:16. > :51:20.have to say that following from election having come from the NHS

:51:21. > :51:24.and seeing the very good security and staff safety policies there I

:51:25. > :51:28.was actually quite shocked that MPs at this stage had very little in

:51:29. > :51:33.terms of risk management procedures in place. And this happened just

:51:34. > :51:39.because you were an MP? Just because you became an MP? I believe so. I

:51:40. > :51:48.think it is much to do with the way that MPs are seen in terms of public

:51:49. > :51:51.perception and I can say that it did happen almost instantaneous on

:51:52. > :51:54.moving from one career to the next and that was the defining change

:51:55. > :51:58.that I experienced. It was almost like I was fair game and certainly

:51:59. > :52:03.that my children and family were then fair game too which just isn't

:52:04. > :52:07.right. No, it's not on. In terms of security measures, have you looked

:52:08. > :52:13.at this for your family home as well as your constituency office? Yes,

:52:14. > :52:18.the police have been out to the constituency office and just last

:52:19. > :52:25.week they installed alarms at my home and also some panic buttons. I

:52:26. > :52:30.have to say that I had moved to the countryside in a sense soy wouldn't

:52:31. > :52:33.need these procedures, but I do think we need to take appropriate

:52:34. > :52:37.risk management seriously now. Does it make you think twice about

:52:38. > :52:41.whether you will seek re-election next time there is a general

:52:42. > :52:46.election? I think you have to always take account of the impact upon your

:52:47. > :52:52.family. I've put myself in public life and I didn't want to have a

:52:53. > :52:55.negative impact on them. However, I grew up in the constituency that I

:52:56. > :52:58.represent and it is a very real privilege to be able to represent

:52:59. > :53:03.them and to do my very best for them. So it's something that I'm

:53:04. > :53:06.hoping with the appropriate risk management measures in place that we

:53:07. > :53:13.can all feel much more secure. OK. Thank you both very much. I really

:53:14. > :53:17.appreciate your time. Thank you. Tom Brake Lib Dem MP and also Dr

:53:18. > :53:26.Lisa Cameron SNP MP. This morning you have been telling

:53:27. > :53:30.us the experience of being a new mum and the feeling you get when you're

:53:31. > :53:33.scrutinised and talked about by strangers as well as family and

:53:34. > :53:39.friends for some of the decisions you've made. Lots you got in touch.

:53:40. > :53:43.One viewer says she was too scared to breastfeed in public. Hi. Good

:53:44. > :53:49.morning. Hi, good morning. Thank you very much for talking to us. You're

:53:50. > :53:54.welcome. Why were you too scared to breastfeed in public? I just think

:53:55. > :53:58.there has been so much especially on social media just seeing videos

:53:59. > :54:04.people have posted of people shouting and telling mums off for

:54:05. > :54:07.breast-feeding if public and some mums get told that they should

:54:08. > :54:12.breastfeed their children in the toilet which I've been told as well.

:54:13. > :54:16.So I have just been let me try and avoid it by not staying out too long

:54:17. > :54:20.and coming home to feed him. OK. Which is such a shame, isn't it? It

:54:21. > :54:26.impacts on what you want to do? Yeah. Yeah, it does. Why were you

:54:27. > :54:30.not able to think, I know this is easier said than done, I don't care

:54:31. > :54:36.what other people think about how I am with my child? Yeah, I mean,

:54:37. > :54:41.sometimes I do think that way, but there is still a part of me that

:54:42. > :54:45.just gets really embarrassed. I just want to avoid confrontation. I hate

:54:46. > :54:49.confrontation. So I think when I'm with other people. So if I'm with a

:54:50. > :54:54.friend that is a new mum, that's also breast-feeding in public I feel

:54:55. > :55:02.more comfortable, just not when I'm by myself. Let's bring in Lindsey.

:55:03. > :55:07.Where abouts in the country are you? I'm in Hertfordshire. Tell us about

:55:08. > :55:12.your experience? I think we put a lot of pressure on ourselves. I

:55:13. > :55:16.think we get a warped view of what the professionals are telling us and

:55:17. > :55:21.what you think to be hyper sensitive sometimes, I think. Obviously, as

:55:22. > :55:24.being a new mum we tend to put a lot of pressure on ourselves and

:55:25. > :55:29.sometimes you might feel judged when really you're not, you know what I

:55:30. > :55:37.mean? Well, go on. No, I don't. Go on. Yes. So it is a, I think you get

:55:38. > :55:43.hyper sensitive, you might think some people are looking at you in a

:55:44. > :55:48.certain way or you know, it might be all in your mind a lot of the time.

:55:49. > :55:53.So I think it is really important to have that family support around you

:55:54. > :55:57.and be supported and actually I think, you're not going mad and just

:55:58. > :56:00.to focus on yourself really and what's best for your family. And

:56:01. > :56:05.that's really, really sound advice. Do you think you could take that on

:56:06. > :56:09.board or is that more advice that you're not bothered about? I think

:56:10. > :56:14.every advice st good advice. Yeah, deaf fitly. OK. Thank you both

:56:15. > :56:21.thech. Very much. Thank you for getting in touch with the programme.

:56:22. > :56:26.Richard Hammond has been hurt in a motorbike crash. Let's talk to our

:56:27. > :56:35.entertainment correspondent. Tell us more about this accident then? Well,

:56:36. > :56:39.we have very few details. It came through newspaper reports through

:56:40. > :56:44.Jeremy Clarkson that Richard had fallen off his motorbike and he hurt

:56:45. > :56:48.himself badly. Richard Hammond responded on the internet saying

:56:49. > :56:53.thanks for the inquiries re my slight shunt. Yes, I fell off a bike

:56:54. > :56:56.many times. Yes, I banged my head and everything else, but life goes

:56:57. > :57:01.on." It is not clear how serious this was or if it disrupted filming

:57:02. > :57:05.at all. Jeremy Clarkson was asked did he go to hospital? He said we

:57:06. > :57:09.don't do hospitals. Whether he was joking or not, it is not clear how

:57:10. > :57:12.serious this is. It is nowhere near as serious as the accident everyone

:57:13. > :57:18.remembers from 11 years ago now when he was filming for Top Gear and was

:57:19. > :57:23.in a medically-induced coma after a serious crash when he was testing a

:57:24. > :57:26.jet powered dragster. People remember how badly injured he was

:57:27. > :57:29.after that. He had a shot of short-term memory problems etcetera

:57:30. > :57:33.after that, but made a full, full recovery. So this accident, even

:57:34. > :57:36.though we don't know the full details, it is nowhere in the same

:57:37. > :57:40.league of what happened 11 years ago. The message that Richard

:57:41. > :57:45.Hammond posted on the website this morning was very jolly actually.

:57:46. > :57:50."Yes, I fell off my bike. Yes, I'm fine. Sorry about that." Son is a Am

:57:51. > :57:53.big company and they've invested a lot in this programme. Their

:57:54. > :57:56.insurers and health people would want to make sure he's fine. They

:57:57. > :58:00.need to protect their star trio as it were. So it doesn't sound from

:58:01. > :58:05.the tone of Richard Hammond's reply that this is a terribly, terribly

:58:06. > :58:08.serious, but we don't have all the full details. This will probably

:58:09. > :58:14.emerge during the day. Thank you very much. Thank you.

:58:15. > :58:20.Thank you for your company today.