20/03/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Monday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

This morning, new figures obtained by this programme show there's

a backlog of more than ?3.8 billion in unpaid child

It affects over a million parents; we'll meet some of them.

When I've paid my bills, I haven't got any money. I have ?8. 50 after

my salary had been paid and I paid all the bills. It would be nice for

the dad to have the respect. Also on the programme,

a man is being held on suspicion of the murder of a one-year-old boy

in North London and the attempted And, did you feel scrutinised

and judged as a new mum? We'll hear about research which says

lots of new mums feel their every move including what they eat,

drink and give to their child is being monitored by friends,

family and even total strangers. More on that to come

before 10 this morning. Hi, I'm Anna. I felt judged in a pub

garden with my thought earn at midday when I was drinking half

apple juice half soda. I felt it was my decision to be there and it was

my decision to drink that drink and I wasn't putting her in danger. I'm

Sky, I had my son when I was 19 and felt judged for being a young mum.

Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11.

Throughout the morning - the latest breaking news

and developing stories and we'll be celebrating the birthday of this

woman. - Dame Vera Lynn the forces sweetheart

who is 100 today...she's been performing since she was 7 years

old but really came to prominence when she entertained the troops

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Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering

a one-year-old boy at a flat in North London.

The man will also be questioned on suspicion

of attempting to murder a girl, thought to be the boy's twin sister.

Our reporter Kathryn Stancheshun is at the scene.

What is the latest? As you can see, Wilberforce Road here in Finsbury

Park remains cordoned off this morning and manned by Metropolitan

police officers. There's been some intense police activity on this

street in the last 24 hours. Forensic teams going in and out of

the cream property just up there, the top flat where this incident

happened. Also, many house-to-house inquiries taking place yesterday and

police are still talking to some of the residents on this street this

morning. What we know is that 11pm on Saturday night, there were

reports of noises, of shouting and screaming, and of a woman asking for

help. Police arrive add the flat to find the two children, a

one-year-old boy and one-year-old girl with severe injuries. They were

both taken to hospital but sadly the little boy later died. Now, police

have arrested a 33-year-old man. They earlier yesterday put out an

appeal to speak to the man in connection with this incident. He's

believed to be the twin's father. He's being questioned at an East

London police station this morning. An update on the little girl - we

know she remains in a critical but stable condition. It's understood

she was taken to one hospital in London yesterday then transferred to

another for more specialist care. Police say that they believe a

postmortem examination is going to take place of the little boy in due

course. That could possibly be later today. Thank you very much.

Care companies have cancelled contracts with 95 UK councils,

saying they cannot deliver services for the amount they are being paid.

A BBC Panorama investigation found some firms said

they could not recruit or retain the staff they needed.

Good morning. Amanda is one of the UK's 800,000 home care workers.

Today she's with a former teacher William Williams who has multiple

sclerosis. Amanda's paid ?7. 55 an hour, just above the national living

wage and, like many warth care workers, she struggles to make ends

meet. She's on a zero hours contract which means her hours are not

guaranteed. They did look into paying more four years ago but they

couldn't do it. It's hard. Amanda is employed in Bangor. The firm is paid

by local councils to provide home care but it currently has 30

vacancies and is struggling to take on new clients. Last year, the

company stopped providing care for one local council, Conway and handed

back the contract. Conway council says it's committed to supporting

vulnerable people in communities despite facing financial challenges.

But Conwy's not alone. Our research reveals across the UK, almost 100

councils have had home care contracts handed back to them. The

UK Government declined to be interviewed but in a statement said

it will be bringing forward proposals later this year to ensure

a more financially sustainable social care system.

Good evening, Mr Williams... With more of us living longer and a

growing shortage of care workers, the pressure on people like Amanda

will continue to grow. Figures obtained by this programme

show 1.2 million single-parent families are owed child maintenance

in the UK. Many of those families have been

chasing the payments for years, and government figures suggest

the total child maintenance debt New mums feel scrutinised

and regulated by family, friends and strangers,

research from Cardiff A small study found

new mothers felt "judged" over what they were feeding their babies,

as well as what they were eating At least 17 people have been killed

in Ghana when a huge tree was swept over a waterfall and crashed down

onto a group of swimmers below. The tree had been uprooted

during a powerful storm. Most of those killed

were high school pupils. Tests carried out on the body

of the man shot dead at Orly airport near Paris on Saturday show he'd

been taking drugs Ziyed Ben Belgacem grabbed

an automatic rifle from a soldier before being killed

by her colleagues. The man's father told French

radio wasn't a terrorist The director of the FBI,

James Comey, will give evidence today about alleged Russian

interference in the US Appearing before the House

Intelligence Committee, he's also expected to face questions

about a second explosive issue. President Trump's claim

that his predecessor, Barack Obama, authorised a wire-tap

of Trump Tower during the campaign. Big changes in calculating personal

injury insurance payouts come into effect today,

which will mean higher compensation for some,

but more costs for the industry. It comes after pressure

from disability groups to lower the discount rate which determines

how much the NHS, or insurance companies, must pay up front

to successful claimants MPs from four committees -

across Transport, Health and the Environment -

are coming together to look They'll scrutinise whether

government plans aimed at tackling the problem go far enough,

as Andy Moore explains. A bus that looks clean enough until

you view its exhaust through a special infrared camera that detects

pollution. The same goes for this car. Poor air quality is

contributing to the early deaths of 40,000 people in the UK every year.

Much of the pollution comes from nitrogen dioxide and tiny particles.

Diesel vehicles once thought to be part of the solution are now seen as

the worst offenders. The problem is one that cuts across many branches

of Government. So the House of Commons believes it's best to pool

resources to analyse what's being done. A total of four sessions will

be held jointly by these committees: Their job will be to scrutinise the

Government's plans to tackle urban air pollution. Last November, the

High Court said the Government must come up with a draft plan to tackle

air pollution in our cities by the 24th April, a full plan must be in

place by the end of July. Last month, the European Union said 16

parts of the UK were breaching air quality directives. It's given the

Government two months to come up with a scheme to solve the problem

or face a multi-million pound fine. The Government says it's committed

to improving the UK's air quality and recently announced a further

?290 million in funding to tackle the problem. Andy Moore, BBC News.

The Forces' Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn, is celebrating

To mark the occasion, a 350 foot image of her is being projected

A pair of wartime spitfires will also do a display over the cliffs.

Dame Vera said she feels 'incredibly humbled' by efforts

According to media reports, a park in Beijing is scanning visitor's

faces before dispensing toilet roll because they're said to be using too

much. They scan faces, dispense a fixed amount of loo paper so people

can't get double or whatever they prefer to have. The tourist

attraction is reportedly visited by people who take large amounts of loo

roll home. Why would having facial recognition stop you taking more loo

roll? Because you can't presumably get your face scanned twice. You

could try to fool it though. Not that they'll come after you and

demand the extra loo roll back. I think that might be the weirdest

story I've read out. Fair enough! Thank you.

Be very interested to know what unwanted advice

Let me know use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text,

you will be charged at the standard network rate.

Tanya, after nine years of pursuing my ex, numerous letters from my MP

and complaints to the head of the whiled support agency, I've still

not received a single penny the ?65,000 in arrears my kids are owed

by my father who is an oil contractor. The system is a

disgrace. It helps fathers like my ex to avoid his legal and moral duty

to financially support his children. A quick tweet from Joe who says

she's now owed ?30,000 by her ex. Your experience is welcome.

Let's get some sport. Oly Foster is with us this morning.

Olly, all this week across BBC News, we'll be looking at the state

Today there are some worrying findings regarding doping

You think about the top end of doping and top athletes getting

suspended stripped of gold medals, the blanket ban on Russian athletes,

but BBC Sport's commissioned a poll of over 1,000 amateur sportsmen and

women at clubs and organise somedayings across the UK and the

results are startling. Let us show you some of the headline figures.

UK anti-doping which polices doping and tries to crack down on this,

they've got plenty to deal with as it is at the elite level of sport.

But responding to the findings, here is their Chief Executive.

Certainly the figures as regards the Ffrench lens of performance

enhancing substances at amateur level are increedibly alarming that.

Said, they do confirm what UK anti-doping has long suspected and

also seen through some of our intelligence-led testing. The

problem with amateur sport is that people don't think they're going to

be tested. Amateur sports people take drugs?

Yes. Let's return to the figures of 8% to a specifically admitted to

taking steroids. At that level, it's clear that it's

not all about winning. BBC Sport spoke to Dan Stevens who was

actually caught three years ago. He said he doped out of curiosity more

than getting any competitive advantage.

I think it's widespread in all ranks, in electriccy, the beauty

industry, slightly widespread in the sports industry. I also think it's a

way of modern day life. I don't think in the amateur ranks it's

about winning. My view is the anti-doping industry needs a roots

and branches rewrite across the whole board. I think there's

arguably different rules should apply to different people that

benefit in different ways. I think it's a mess at the moment. And what

other issues will you be looking at across the week, Olly? Plenty more

on amateur doping and reaction to the findings in that poll. Tomorrow

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

a fascinating subject. Wednesday we have a Special Report from Syria.

Football on the frontline. We'll also look at the balancing act of

athlete welfare and medal success. Remember, the trouble British

cycling was in recently, and also how sport can change lives for the

better. The week will be rounded off by a debate on Friday night with

some of the key decision-makers across sport. Should be a

fascinating week. Richard Hammond posted a message on

his website confirming he had a motorbike crash when film, but he's

fine. He said "That's for the inquiries. I banged my head, but

life goes on." When parents split up,

they're both still expected to contribute towards the upbringing

of their children. If they can't agree how

much should be paid, a government agency decides

on the cost of child maintenance. If one parent doesn't pay,

it's chased up by the Government. But this programme can reveal

that the amount of unpaid child maintenance parents are currently

chasing stands at ?3.8 billion. And it affects 1.2 million

people in the UK. The money is owed by non-resident

parents or absent parents, and has built up over

the last 23 years. Our reporter Nicola Rees has

been speaking to some So, are you able to see how

much money he's owed? Over ?3,000, but I've no confidence

that I'm going to get that money. When couples split up,

they're both still expected to contribute to the cost

of bringing up their children. But, according to the latest

figures, almost 1.2 million parents in the UK have failed to pay a total

of ?3.8 billion It's such a huge, startling number

that people can't quite believe it and do a double-take,

and it's money that's built This is the money that he owes,

but they don't seem to be able to get it off him, and there's

been no repercussions. You're on hold for 15,

20 minutes, you're being Payment of child maintenance

is a legal obligation, a bit like income tax

or national insurance. So how is it that so many

parents are managing His dad has been assessed

by the Child Support Agency He bought him a couple of books

and ?50 at the beginning in 2009, but we're now in 2017,

and the total amount What was it like for you,

particularly early on, At the beginning, when I first

moved up to Sheffield, it was really tough trying

to support him because I just didn't have the money

to look after him properly. And I had to just, you know,

instead of going to do fun things, I would just take him to the park,

get a picnic, we'd have the same picnic every

single day, take a book. I mean, you know, I did my best,

but I would've liked You have since moved on,

and you've remarried. Do you in any way feel

that that makes you less As his father, he has

a responsibility. You don't just have the child,

you raise them, you support them, You know, after nine years

of trying to get money out of him via the CSA,

and it's been completely In Nottingham, single mum

Karen Horton is also desperate to recoup several years' worth

of child maintenance debt Don't forget I'm working

a double, so you need to sort your own dinner

out, all right? Karen separated from

Liam's dad ten years ago. At first, she received regular

payments of ?5 a week directly from his benefits,

but when he stopped claiming benefits and started working,

the maintenance dried up. I was at university,

I was on less than benefits, I was on a maintenance grant,

and that ?5 a week would've made a difference right then,

as daft as it sounds. I used to buy a loaf of bread

and a packet of multi-crisps, and I'd just have crisp butties,

because that'd only cost me about ?4 to feed me Monday to Friday,

that was how bad it was. And to know that you could've had

that support, had the system worked, it hurts a little bit more,

because we needed that How much of a difference might

this arrears money make That'd help massively, because that

would put food on our table. Because by the time I've paid my

bills, I haven't got food money. This month, five days

after my salary went into my account, I had ?8.50,

and that was for the month. Karen raised Liam alone for five

years without child maintenance. But since 2014 she has

received regular payments The CSA did eventually

track Liam's dad down and calculate a payment for him,

though, didn't they? I had to be constantly on to them,

so I don't give them I had to ring them every week,

pretty much, at that time, because we were so desperate

for that money and I knew that he was working,

and then when they're telling you that they've lost your case

or there's been a problem, it's been overlooked,

there's been a mistake on your case, your case has been put in the wrong

place, or the wrong department... It's really frustrating then,

because you know you're struggling because of their incompetence,

really. The Child Support Agency was set up

in 1993 to make sure that, if a relationship broke down,

one parent couldn't just disappear and leave the other to pay the costs

of bringing up their children. But for years it's been

dogged with problems. Computer systems didn't work

properly, and parents who didn't pay So, over 23 years, a multi-billion

pound arrears debt's accumulated. It's money that should've been

available for children. I've sent letters after letters,

and I just felt like I was getting They asked for my bank details,

they said they'll get the money off of him,

they'll put it into my bank account, The Child Support Agency has

taken enforcement action on at least three occasions,

but the bailiffs haven't Do you have any hope that they'll

get this money back for you? As soon as he gets wind that it's

the CSA, he'll hang up. If they come round to the house,

he won't let them in the house. This enforcement letter that I've

got, a couple of years ago, they haven't done anything with it,

there's been no repercussions whatsoever, so to me it's

like a paper exercise. Laura's former partner

is this man, Gary Lawford. He works as a children's

entertainer in Brighton. We contacted him to ask why

he hasn't paid child maintenance for Louis,

but he declined to comment. The Child Support Agency has a whole

range of powers to potentially They can take money directly

from benefits or bank accounts, they can even use bailiffs

to seize property. These are powers that they very

seldom use, and yet for some people, particularly those

who are self-employed, those are the things

that would really work, Janet Allberson is from the single

parents' charity Gingerbread. She wants the Government to do more

to tackle the maintenance debt. We say there should be some

compensation to children They shouldn't just be able to walk

away and say its history when it's due to their errors and their poor

practice that money That's wrong, and the Government

should pay for that. The Government say that part of this

issue is they're focusing on children who can benefit now,

which is why the arrears It sounds very simple, doesn't it,

focus on money for children now? But if you're just always cresting

the wave and saying, "Money now," every week,

every month, there's a proportion of parents who only pay,

they pay nothing or they pay half, and when they don't pay that

money starts to build up. Even if it's paid months,

years late, it can still make a huge difference in terms of paying off

bills, replenishing your savings, helping perhaps a teenage child

redecorate their bedroom. In 2012, the Government

bought in a new system The Child Maintenance Service,

or CMS, brought with it new IT systems and the ability to access HM

Revenue Customs data to make The new scheme introduced charges

that parents had to pay before they could sign up,

and the aim was actually to put people off using the Government's

scheme and instead to encourage them to go away, sit down

and come up with their own But in many cases that's

simply not happening. What they say is they want

parents to collaborate and agree maintenance,

and do it in a friendly way, and so charging people ?20 to use

the new service is intended to make them go away and agree their own

arrangements instead. The worry is, of course,

that it's putting off particularly low-income parents,

who can't afford it. To pay ?20 to try and chase up,

get money out of him for Louis when there's ?9,000 owing

from the last ten years... Why would I pay more to get money

that I haven't even got...? It doesn't make sense to me at all,

so until I've got that money back, I'm not going to be paying money

to get money that's Laura's frustrations are shared

by many single parents. In fact, only 16% have reapplied

to have their maintenance But among those who

have, there is hope. Karen is now receiving regular

payments from her ex. He is now making regular payments

and a small contribution Does that give you confidence,

are you cautiously optimistic? Yeah, it's an anxiety, really,

because you don't know if that money's going to come at the end

of the month. So you can never rely on it,

even if you do start getting it, you don't know how much you're

going to get every month because And then it's still the really bad

correspondence, so every month I get a letter saying that he hasn't paid,

but then I get a text message a couple of weeks later saying that

there's a payment been made. The new and improved CMS

was supposed to solve the arrears problem,

but the debt continues to rise. So far, for the parents who have

signed up, the service is only collecting around half

of the money that's due. In fact, the new system has already

clocked up ?93 million Just going to find out

where your case is located. For Laura,

the fight is far from over. I'll just pop you on hold

a moment, I'll not keep But dealing with the system

doesn't get any easier. How many years should

you chase them? Can you tell me what's happening

with this money, and when I'm, if there's any chance

of me getting it? OK, yeah, that's

the figure I've got. Right, what I need to do is I need

to contact enforcement for you. After 22 minutes on the phone

to three different departments, Laura is told someone

will call her back. They've confirmed that he owes a sum

of ?9,109, but they can't confirm anything else,

you know, when it's They're just trying to find

the right department of where it is, so now I have to phone them back

to phone up a different number, but it's like this all the time,

it's just a complete headache. I'm not getting anywhere with it,

I've just wasted all this time on the phone and now I feel really

stressed, you can probably tell by my voice, I'm just getting

really wound up and... We very much want the CMS

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

you've got to be charged to use it, we think that's

a very blunt instrument. But we do want the service

to deliver for children. At the moment, there's

still questions to be asked about how much effort it's put

in to chasing those who choose not to pay, and we don't think, as yet,

it's got that right, and there's more that needs

to be done. The Government says it's

getting tough tackling parents who evade payment,

but with billions of pounds' worth of child maintenance outstanding,

many single-parent families I don't understand how a father can

get away with not paying. How can he sleep at night,

when that's his child I don't know how he

sleeps, I really don't. It'd have been nice for Liam to know

that his dad was contributing. It'd have been nice for Liam to have

that respect in his dad that he's If your ex-partner isn't

paying child maintenance then do get in touch, I am really

keen to hear how you cope without it and what measures you've

undertaken to get it. Now - as you'd expect

we asked the dept of work and pensions to speak to us -

and they said no. Telling us they "actively pursue

non-resident parents to recover unpaid maintenance" and are

"committed to ensuring that everyone gets paid the child maintenance

they're entitled to." We asked them about the ?93 million

of new debt that's already accumulated under the Child

Maintenance Service. They said "in nearly 90% of these

arrears cases parents are paying In reference to the people we heard

from in the film, the DWP apologised to Karen for the handling

of her case under the They say they've now "taken action

to enforce payments" and taken "additional steps to ensure

the arrears owed And finally we asked them to look

at Laura's case too. They said that's now

been "transferred to the Child Maintenance Service along

with the arrears owed" and that they're using the enforcement

methods available to them A texter says, my ex owes me ?1200,

a relatively small amount to some, but the CSA kept changing my case

because he kept moving addresses. I'll never see that money. My

daughter is no longer entitled to child benefit and they told me now

they won't follow it up. The system is a job, if it was the Government

that owed the money they would find a way to recover it but not for

single parents. Claire says my ex hasn't paid maintenance since we

split up over eight years ago and he owes ?17,500. He switches work or

works self-employed to avoid the CSA and CMS, it's a disgrace, they

should be able to jail him. Rachel says, can we also bring to light

that some mores abuse the child maintenance service, stopping the

father from seeing their children just to get more money. Lisa says, I

still have a debt of ?41,000 that's been cleared, ?100 per month for

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

If you've got a story to share about child maintenance payments,

do get in touch with the programme - we'll be speaking to one mother

after 10am who has spent six years chasing arrears of almost ?3,000.

Still to come, nearly one in four home care companies are at risk

of going bankrupt because they can't recruit enough staff

We'll hear from one home care worker who has decided

Were you ever given disapproving looks or told off

for what you were doing or not doing as a new mum?

We'll hear about research which says lots of new mums feel their every

move including what they eat, drink and give to their child

is being monitored by friends, family and even total strangers.

Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of the news.

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering

a one-year-old boy at a flat in North London.

The man will also be questioned on suspicion

of attempting to murder a girl, thought to be the boy's twin sister.

The boy died in the early hours of Sunday and the girl remains

Care companies have cancelled contracts with 95 UK councils,

saying they cannot deliver services for the amount they are being paid.

A BBC Panorama investigation found some firms said

they could not recruit or retain the staff they needed.

The Local Government Association said the situation was the result

of "historic under-funding" and an ageing population.

Figures obtained by this programme show 1.2 million single-parent

families are owed child maintenance in the UK.

Many of those families have been chasing the payments for years,

and government figures suggest the total child maintenance debt

At least 17 people have been killed in Ghana when a huge tree was swept

over a waterfall and crashed down onto a group of swimmers below.

The tree had been uprooted during a powerful storm.

Most of those killed were high school pupils.

The Force's Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn, is celebrating

To mark the occasion, a 350-foot image

of her is being projected on to the White Cliffs of Dover.

A pair of wartime spitfires will also do a display over the cliffs.

Dame Vera said she feels "incredibly humbled" by efforts

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10am.

This is from somebody who doesn't wish to use their name to do with

child maintenance - I am far from an absent parent, I have equal care of

my daughter and yet the CSA have taken ?500 off us a month. CSA base

everything upon who gets child benefit so she has greater financial

income that is far greater than mine. The CSA target the parents

that are easy targets. I have not had support from anyone. Please keep

this anonymous, the agency is the issue, they do everything wrong,

they're absolutely useless. Here is the sport.

At the start of our State of Sport week, the head of anti-doping is

alarmed at the results of a poll looking at doping in amateur sport.

35% said they know somebody who has used performance enhancing drugs. In

the Premier League, Manchester City and Liverpool remain third and

fourth after cancelling each other out at the Etihad. Aguero scored

City's equaliser in the draw. Tottenham are clear in second place

after they beat Southampton 2-1 at White Hart Lane. Christian Eriksen

and deli Ali scored their goals. They are ten points behind Chelsea.

Roger Federer's won a title following an 18th major win. A few

months ago, the 35-year-old won the Indian Wells tournament. He beat

fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka. Home care companies have warned that

they're in crisis because they can't recruit enough staff

to meet growing demand. Across the UK 800,000 home care

workers help elderly and disabled people live independent

lives at home. The majority are employed

by private companies Research by the BBC's Panorama

programme reveals that nearly 100 councils have had home care

contracts handed back to them. In their investigation they found

nearly one in four home care companies are at risk of shutting

down and that 69 have closed Amanda Hopewell is a home care

worker and she described what a working day

looks like for her. When you're with them every day

of the week it's easy to get to know them and

their routine, really. In the mornings, you go in and,

like, help them get out of bed, make them breakfast,

and help them get dressed and stuff. I could see up to about ten

or 11 people a day. If I do a long day's work

I would put ?20 a day in this camp If I do a long day's work

I would put ?20 a day in this car Most probably a quarter

of my wages goes on to fuel. Even though they pay

more, and you get a contract off them, but I don't think

I'd be sitting behind the till, I feel good about myself when I've

given them that care as well, I know And that they tipped up in bed

and the door's locked then... Let's talk now to Colin Angel

from the UK's Home Care Association and Zoe Anderson who is

a home care worker. Welcome both of you. We saw Amanda's

story. Tell us about your own daily routine as a home care worker? Well,

it's fairly typical what she was talking about, we get up very early,

don't usually get paid for travel time so we have to work very long

hours in the day to make up a seven-hour day that would be normal.

So you would have to do like 14 visits at least in a day to make it

like a normal day's work which would take you from maybe six in the

morning until eight in the evening to get the calls in with only a

couple of hours break for the hole day. You get half an hour with each

client, is that right? For most, yes. For a straightforward personal

care visit helping wash and dress, make breakfast, help can medication,

you would get half an hour which means you don't have any time for

any extras, it's straight in and straight out, no time to spend with

people or do the odd little bits and pieces that people need to stay

comfortable. It's very difficult. Can you do all that you are supposed

to do in that 30 minutes? No, no, no. Well, most of the time, but if

you go over slightly, 35, 40 minutes, you don't usually get any

extra for that so it eats into your day and the more you do, the less

you get paid basely so the more you care the less you get paid. Colin

your organisation says they should get ?16.70 an hour to provide decent

care and pay staff a legal wage. What is the reality? Home care

providers are receiving significantly less than our minimum

price for home care. How much less? So on average about ?2 an hour less.

That means care providers are having to ration the number of staff they

have in the office, reducing the number of supervisors available. We

are seeing the creation of a system that Zoe's described of not having

enough time to meet people's needs, they're very rushed and it's an

undignified service for many which it shouldn't be. This relates to how

councils are underfunding care, their budgets themselves are under

stress. You know the Government's injected this ?2 billion extra or is

going to, I'm not sure how it's going to pay for that yet but it's

going to inject ?2 billion into social care in the next couple of

years, how is that going to help? It's going to help, it's over two

years. It will stop further deterioration, it will keep the

system stable while the Government comes up with a long-term solution

for funding older people's care. That's urgently needed and it's

going to be the state picking up the cost of people's care, or will that

need people paying through national insurance or taking on insurance or

using the value in their own homes? What What is your motivation for

doing this job, Zoe? It's not the money. I especially like the elderly

and caring for them. When the job is good, it's the best job in the

world, the rewards are immense, you really can make a difference to

people's lives when you are able to do your job properly. Unfortunately

at the moment, the business is being held together by a hard core of

people doing it for love and care and specifically for our clients. We

are not doing it for anybody else and we are not getting supported in

that. We are slowly leaving. The staff, we can't retain good staff,

unless you are really dedicated to the job nobody does it for more than

a few weeks. Are you leaving? I'm going to work in a care home, yes,

in a couple of weeks, it's better hours, I'm getting paid for all the

time that I'm working, it's a less care-based role as well so I'm

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

much. You can see more on this story

in Panorama on BBC One Vera Lynn, the World War II

singer, turns 100 today. Events across the UK

will celebrate her life. Is it okay for a complete stranger

to tell you, as a new mum, A small study today suggests that

new mums feel judged and scrutinised when it comes to parenting -

judged by strangers and family members, and it puts them

under undue pressure. We can speak now to Anna Whitehouse

who is 6 months pregnant and has Ven Wong is here with her

one-year old Kyler. And Skye Blake with

seven-month-old Reggie is here. Rosamund Dean is Mum to Ezra

and three-week-old Eden. Hello, everybody! Sorry about the

rush. Thanks for getting here. Congratulations, this must be Eden.

Yes. There she is. So, Rosamund, is it

true that recently you felt you had to lie about breast-feeding to a

total stranger? Yes! That did happen actually at the swimming pool at the

weekend. Eden and I were in the viewing gallery watching my husband

and toddler Sam splashing around in the pool and a woman came over and

said what a lovely baby. Breast-fed? And this time around, my second

child, I stopped breast-feeding earlier so she's formula fed now.

Ridiculously, I said yes. I felt I didn't want to be judged by this

stranger. Wow. Do you mind me asking how old the stranger was out of

interest? She was in her 20s I would say or early 30s max. She didn't

seem... So did you do that, you said because you didn't want to be judged

but also was it easier because you didn't necessarily want to get into

the conversation about the decision you had taken?

I felt if I said no it would have been a whole conversation. Of course

and you would have had to justify your decisions. She knows nothing

about you or Eden. Who else can relate to that? So he's breast fed,

but I get asked when I'm putting him on formula. Really? Because it works

for us, I don't have a plan any time soon. Why do you think you get asked

that? Is it because you're young or look young or what? I think it's me

being young definitely comes into it. But I think people think that

breast, you breastfeed for a certain amount of time and then you just

switch to formula, but if it works for me, I don't see why I need to, I

mean he's perfectly happy and healthy and putting on weight. And

what do you think of complete strangers asking you about how you

feed your child? I get complete strangers asking me as well. People

on the bus. Just people I see at other play groups. I mean everyone

is different. Extraordinary. Anna, why does everyone have an opinion? I

don't know because there is so much more information out there. When my

mum went through it all, there wasn't the internet and this

abundance of how to parent, you just got on with it. I was in a pub

garden with May when she was really young in the sun, just drinking. Had

half apple juice and half soda, but in a pint glass and the judgement

around me, it was actually from a younger generation like, "Should she

either be here? Should she be drinking it that" I was like I love

my kid. I'm just drinking apple juice. There is also a kids play

area at this pub. The pub understands you have children and

that it's not suddenly a place of shame. I feel more judged at the

moment on what I'm eating because I'm six months pregnant from

everybody from somebody in a restaurant. Are you sure you want

medium steak? Is that the waiter or the waitress? Without meaning it.

They might be checking because they don't want to be held liable if

something goes wrong? People feel they care about it, but also there

is an implication that we're not. Do you have something to say about this

What do you want to say? My mummy eats all of my food! Does she?

Alyour fish fingers? We all do it! Hello. What about your experience? I

mean I really agree with the sentiment that social media as kind

of made. It amplifies everything. Why does it? For me, I mean, I

guess, it's information is more out there and more like easily

accessible and for me it was more about the stories that I read, you

know, on Facebook or online of incidents where people had, you

know, issues breast-feeding in public. For me, I did breastfeed for

six months and for me the biggest issue was worrying that people are

looking at me and judging me for the way I'm breast-feeding or people

walking out, people being judgemental about it because I had

read so many stories. Did you actually experience it or were you

worried about experiencing it? The thing is, I was so worried about it

to the point where I didn't want to do it in public. Right. For me, I

actually just hardly even left the house for six months because I was

so worried of what other people would think that I just fed him at

home. You see those comments on Facebook. Comments all the time. I

think you just think that's a representation of maybe what

outsiders are thinking. It might be, but it doesn't help your mindset. My

mum didn't have that. She didn't have that kernel planted in her mind

that somebody might think it's terrible I'm feeding my newborn

formula aged three weeks. I think it's really funny because parents

and that generation will say to you, you guys have it so easy, we didn't

have any of the stuff you've got now. I think it is more complicated

now with social media ampifying everything and they didn't have

that. It's crazy whether you're breast-feeding or bottle-feeding

your baby you can feel worried about doing it in public because of the

way you will be judged. What about being judged or scrutinised or put

under pressure by your own parents or siblings, relatives and close

friends? Does that happen? I don't know about you guys, but I didn't

experience that. My family were very, very supportive and very

reassuring. My mother and mother-in-law said, you know, I

didn't breastfeed for very long and my friend said, you know in a couple

of years when you've got a toddler running around you're going to think

I can't believe I spent any time worrying about giving me baby a

bottle. So my family are very supportive. I found it more

midwives. It's awful really, healthcare professionals weren't

reassuring in that way. They were very, very, you know, they were very

convinced about breast-feeding and that being the best thing. And that

put pressure on you? Yes, absolutely. When my son who is now

two-and-a-half, when he was three weeks old, I was really struggling

with breast-feeding and I cracked nipples and had by expressing milk

into a bottle and I thought it is fine because it's still breast milk

and the midwife said you shouldn't do that because your son wouldn't

get antibodies he needs unless it comes from the breast. I researched

that and there is no evidence for that, what a thing to say to an

emotional, vulnerable new mum who is desperate to do the best thing for

her baby. Who saw a mum fill up a baby's bottle with Dr Pepper

recently? I was on a bus in Lleyton. It drew quite a interesting feeling

of myself as a mother because I thought how easy is to for me to

just judge that straightaway? But I have had days where I've fed her

mainly chocolate because I've had a very difficult day and she won't eat

anything else. I've had days where I have been throwing up so much

because of HGV, morning sickness and the only thing I can eat for my bump

is, you know, three Mars bars. You don't know that circumstance and

while that's not great and obviously not to advocate, I just felt

actually, I can't judge that. Yes. It's not, for me, to judge. I don't

know the circumstances that have led to that and I'm going to make that

mother feel worse and ultimately, you need to be in an OK frame of

mind as a mother, whatever is going on around you, that's more

important, I think. Thank you so much for coming in with

your delicious children. Thank you, I really appreciate it and good

luck. All the very best, thank you. Vera Lynn, the World War II

singer, turns 100 today. Events across the UK

will celebrate her life. A seven-year-old tells us

how her junior first aid training saved her toddler brother's life

when he suffered a seizure. Roxy took the dummy out of Harvey's

mouth and put him in the recovery position. She just won a national

award. We can speak to them both now. Roxy, tell us what you did. I

put him in the recovery position. He just do that with one hand and then

you do that with the other hand and then you bend your leg like that and

then like, you put the straight leg on to the bent leg and you twist

them on their side. If they're a baby, you take their dummy out. How

did you know how to do all that? St John's. You had training with St

John's, had you? Yes. Wow. And what was happening to Harley that led you

to do all of that? He was having a fit. He was like blue and then like

and then he couldn't breathe and then like we had to talk to him. So

it didn't block his airway and he was being sick and we had to do

something. Wow, you saved his life, Roxy. Yeah. That's incredible. Kate,

I mean, does Harley often have the seizures? Is it something that your

family would know how to deal with or was this unusual? Well, this was

actually Harley's third seizure that he'd suffered. He'd suffered two

previously and then this was the firsted one. Third one. You start to

deal with them, but obviously we weren't with him when he had his

third seizure, he was staying with his grandparents. But they're so

traumatic to watch for him. You just feel so helpless. Had you

deliberately got some training for Roxy? Or was it a coincidence with

the work she has been doing with St John's? No, she'd actually been

learning to do recovery positions with St John's probably well months

before so actually she had been using me and her dad as guinea pigs

to put us in recovery position after she'd learnt the sort of skill there

with them, but they're always sort of upgrading with their first aid

and stuff. She is is always learning new things with the St John's. Of

course, just because you learn it, it doesn't mean actually remember

what to do when you might need to bring forward the training that

you've had? Absolutely because, I mean, when Harley sort of sufferths

suffers his convulsions, it is panic stations really, but luckily Roxy is

very much like her dad. She is a very cool, calm and collected little

girl and so is her dadment they deal with the situation and obviously she

has got a cool mannerism about her. She had learnt, that's how she

learnt to deal with Harley on this particular occasion. What do you

think of her actions? Oh, amazing. Me and her dad can't begin to tell

you how proud we are of her, and not just us but her grandparents and

their nanny and grandad, and many family members and friends, you

know, they're overwhelmed by what she has done and her teachers in

primary school. She has up in Assembly and she look a letter in

when she had the nomination. She took that in and went up in front of

the Assembly and the children. She took her award to show them all. So

yeah, she is quite a little superstar around here at the moment

to say the least. Well, quite right too. Thank you so much both of you.

Thank you, Roxy. Thank you Kate. Thank you very much for talking to

us this morning. No problem, thanks a lot. Bye. We recorded that before

Roxy went to school! Let's get the latest

weather update with Carol. Not as spring-like as it should be?

We have had temperatures way love average. This week, they will be

below average. If you have been planting in your garden bear that in

mind... Not it this weekend, no. This morning we've got varied

weather. Look at this lovely picture taken by one of our Weather Watchers

in Durham. In Wales it has been a wet morning, but for us things will

improve as a weather front sinks south. So you can see where we have

the earlier holes. All this cloud sinking south. The bright white is a

weather front. That weather front is producing rain and the rain will

continue its journey moving towards the South East through the course

kft day accompanied by gusty winds. Behind it, brighter skies already

across Scotland and Northern Ireland will filter down into Northern

England and Wales. But with them comes the colder weather that

Victoria as alluding to. Colder and showery at that. So it is the far

south-east that will hang on to the highest temperatures as we go

through the early part of this week. Even so they are going to be coming

down. There is the rain continuing its journey, when you see yellows

and greens that denotes heavier bursts of rain. It is a windy day

particularly windy this morning across the Western Isles, but by

this afternoon the strongest winds will be across the Northern Isles,

particularly Shetlandment here too, there will be showers. Showers and

sunshine across the rest of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and some

getting into Northern England. Maybe a little bit of hail mixed in, but

any snow will be on the hills. Brightening up after this morning's

rain across Wales. Here is our weather front draped acrosses East

Anglia and through the Midlands and into the South East and extending

down into the Channel Islands. Behind it, it will slowly start to

brighten up across the south-west, but there will be showers this

afternoon. These are the temperatures you can expect if

you're stepping out. Seven to ten Celsius in the north. Still 13

Celsius or 14 Celsius, but not feeling particularly special in the

South East with the rain. That rain clears away on to the near Continent

leaving clearer skies and a real rash of showers coming in. Some of

the showers across Northern Ireland, Scotland, Northern England too will

be of snow. Some of them even at lower levels. There is also the risk

of ice. Any showers, southern England and Wales are more likely

going to be of rain, but it will be a cold start to the day. Much colder

than it was this morning, but a lot of sunshine. Now, tomorrow we carry

on with the showers, some of those wintry, but the wintry flavour will

be largely on the hills, but look at those temperatures, four Celsius in

Glasgow and six Celsius in Newcastle, but 11 Celsius in London.

Hello it's Monday, it's 10am, I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

More than a million single parent families are chasing thousands

of pounds in unpaid child maintenance; the total owed

And some have been chasing that money for years.

I just didn't have the money to look after him. I don't understand how a

father can get away with not paying it. How can he sleep at night? How

can he sleep at night when that's his whiled that he owes money to? I

don't know how he sleeps, I really don't.

We'll be speaking to a mum who says she's owed money

as well as a charity and an MP who can tell us how

It's not just professional athletes who dope; a third of amateur sports

people say they know someone personally who has doped according

Were you ever scared of getting caught?

Like I say the real thing for wasn't racing.

I didn't do a lot of racing on those substances.

Vera Lynn, the World War II singer, turns 100 today.

Events across the UK will celebrate her life.

# There'll be blue Birds over # The Whitecliffsofdover #

Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering

a one-year-old boy at a flat in North London.

The man will also be questioned on suspicion

of attempting to murder a girl, thought to be the boy's twin sister.

The boy died in the early hours of Sunday and the girl remains

in a critical condition in hospital.

Care companies have cancelled contracts with 95 UK councils,

saying they cannot deliver services for the amount they are being paid.

A BBC Panorama investigation found some firms said

they could not recruit or retain the staff they needed.

The Local Government Association said the situation was the result

of "historic under-funding" and an ageing population.

Figures obtained by this programme show 1.2 million single-parent

families are owed child maintenance in the UK.

Many of those families have been chasing the payments for years,

and government figures suggest the total child maintenance debt

At least 17 people have been killed in Ghana when a huge tree was swept

over a waterfall and crashed down onto a group of swimmers below.

The tree had been uprooted during a powerful storm.

Most of those killed were high school pupils.

A public toilet in Japan has inserted a facial recognition system

to stop people taking large amounts of loo roll home.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text, you will be charged

We can join Olly at the BBC Sport Centre now.

At the start of our State of Sport week across the BBC,

the head of UK anti-doping Nicole Sapstead says she's alarmed

at the results of a BBC Poll looking at Doping in Amateur sport,

Over a 1000 sportsmen and women took aprt and 35 percent said they knew

Certainly the figures are incredibly alarming. That said, they do confirm

what UK anti-doping has long suspected and also seen through some

of our intelligence-led testing. The problem with amateur sport is that

people don't think they're going to be tested.

lost ground on the Premier League leaders Chelsea after a 1-1 draw

James Milner had given Liverpool the lead from the penalty spot

but Sergio Aguero equalised for City midway through the second half.

Tottenham have gone clear in second place, 2 points ahead of City but 10

Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli scored the goals that beat

Southampton 2-1 at White Hart Lane yesterday Celtic are 25 points clear

Southampton 2-1 at White Hart Lane yesterday.

With 9 games to go one more win will do for the title They won

With 9 games to go one more win will do for the title.

Some really tragic news from Irish football and the Derry City captain,

Ryan McBride, has died suddenly at the age of 27.

On Saturday he led his side to a 4-0 win over Drogheda United

in the League of Ireland Premier Division.

Leicester Tigers have won the Anglo Welsh Cup

Tom Brady scored their only try in a 16-12 win over

The win ends a four year trophy drought for the Tigers,

whilst it was the second year running that Exeter

Roger Federer's Indian summer continues.

After an 18th Major win at the Australian Open in January

he's become the oldest player to win an ATP Masters title.

Federer, who is now 35 years old, missed a lot of last year

with a knee problem, but he is a rejeuvenated player,

and he's won the prestigious Indian Wells tournament

This programme can reveal that amount of unpaid child maintenance

parents are currently chasing stands at ?3.8 billion.

The money is owed by non-resident parents, or absent parents,

and has built up over the last 23 years.

It affects 1.2 million people across the country.

Our reporter Nicola Rees has been speaking to some

We played you her full report an hour ago.

Laura lives in Sheffield. Her son is ten years old. His dad has been

assessed and should be paying maintenance. Bought him a couple of

books. ?50 at the beginning in 2009. We are now in 2017 and the total

amount that he owes Louis is ?9,000. What was it like for you

particularly early on to survive on one income? I'm sort of taking him

to the park, get a picnic every single day, take a book, you know, I

did my best. I would have liked to have done more. When couples split

up, they are both expected to condition tribute to the cost of

bringing up their children. Almost 1.2 million parents in the UK have

failed to pay a total of ?3.8 billion in child maintenance. The

Child Support Agency was set up to help families in 1993, but it's been

dogged with problems. Computer systems didn't work properly and

parents who didn't pay up weren't tracked down.

Shouldn't just be able to walk away and say it's history when it's due

to their errors and their poor practice that money hasn't been

collected. That's wrong and the Government should pay for that. Over

23 years, a multibillion pound arrears debt has accumulated. It's

money that should have been available for children. I'll pop you

on hold a moment... For Laura, the fight is far from over.

Right, I've got ?9,109. OK, that's the figure I've got. So what's

happening with that money? Laura's former partner is a children's

entertainer in Brighton. We asked him why he hasn't paid maintenance

for Louis and he declined to comment. In a statement, the

Government said: In 2012, the child maintenance

service replaced the CSA with new IT systems and it was supposed to solve

the arrears problem. It's already clocked up ?93 million in

maintenance debts. At the moment, there are still questions to be

asked about how much effort it's put into chasing those who choose not to

pay. We don't think as yet it's got that right. I don't understand how a

father can get away with not paying it. How can he sleep at night? How

can he sleep at night when that's his whiled he owes money to? I don't

know how he sleeps, I really don't. If your ex partner isn't

paying child maintenance Really keen to hear how you cope

without it and what've As you'd expect, we asked

the Department of Work Pensions Let's talk to Heather,

a mum who's spent 6 years chasing almost ?3000 in child maintenance

arrears for her daughter. Conservative MP Heidi Allen

who is part of a group of Mps who've been investigating child maintenance

arrears; their report Janet Allbeson from the single

parent charity Gingerbread And Michael l Lewkowicz,

from the charity There is ?93 million

of unpaid maintenance under Heather, hello, you're still

fighting for the arrears, what has it been like getting that money?

It's been horrendous, I've had to do all the chasing and investigating.

I've had to get my MP involved to assist because they've never done

anything about it, the Child Support Agency. Because he's self-employed,

they would only go on what he'd say they were earning and I was

obviously convinced he was earning more money and I wanted them to

carry out a financial investigation but they wouldn't do it. So after a

year of chasing them, I had to get my MP involved who wrote a letter to

them and then they carried out a financial investigation and found

that he had more money in his bank account than he was declaring. He

was allowed to appeal and we went to a tribunal. The tribunal dismissed

his appeal and awarded me, well my daughter the sum that the CSA said

he owed. On top of that, I had already swapped over to the child

maintenance service and obviously I had to get them to recalculate the

payment that he should have been making from them once we got the

figures correct for his earnings. At first, they said they wouldn't back

date the arrears to the start of my claim so again I got my MP involved

who wrote to them again and they then agreed to back date them which

is why we have got the arrears they've got now. But they will not

do anything to force him to pay the arrears. They say that their

objective is to get a regular maintenance payment but the arrears

come second. They do have a priority in how they collect the money, they

say, and their fees, their 4% charge I pay is more important to them and

hiring their priorities than my ayears. Do you think the child

maintenance service is what went before, the Child Support Agency? We

are very worried it's taking the same approach which is to say that

as long as you pay something that's good enough. They seem very slow,

very Le that are tick to collect back money. That creates a hole in

single parents' budgets. There are bills they can't pay, they savings

get run-down. That debt really matters. It's not just paying money

this week and promising to do it in future, it's the money you owe from

the past and they should be doing more to collect that. We'll talk to

Heidi about that in a moment. Michael on behalf of fathers, the

dads who're paying child maintenance, what are they saying

about how they're treated? They have a similar experience, contacting the

RSA or CMS, faced with dozens of phone calls and they say, the

computer says we can't listen to your point -- the CSA. The formula

that CMS uses doesn't take into account the essential

cost-of-living, the basic threshold at which they start to make payments

hasn't been reviewed since 1998 which means that they get pushed

into a place where with cost ofleying having increased

dramatically over that time they, however much they would like to

contribute more, the large number cannot and we know that there are

56% of all the arrears cases are actually for people owing less than

?1,000. These are people who simply don't have the money to pay it even

though they would very much wish to support their parent... Their

children? Yes. Do you accept that some exes do lie about their incomes

so they don't pay as much as they should? That happens in any system,

people try to minimise what they owe, whether it's tax or child

maintenance. We believe that both parents really should be supporting

their parents both financially and non-financially and the people we

get 25,000 calls to the helplines from fathers every year and these

are people who desperately want to maintain their involvement with

their children, want to be able to support them, but when we carried

out a large scale survey of our service users, what really shocked

and surprised us, we weren't expecting this as a response, was

just how many people were saying, I can't afford it, I'm feeling

suicidal, I'm having to live with my parents without whose help I

wouldn't be able to pay maintenance. Heidi you and your fellow MPs have

been looking at this. What can you do to make the child maintenance

service for efficient and more effective when it comes to

collecting maintenance now and arrears? We have to understand what

we want the system for because we found time and time again in our

evidence where there is an amicable split parents get on with it and

they do the best thing for the children. If the Government is going

to have a system because when these arrears aren't collected and the

real issue with self mroult, I'm self-employed, declared earnings,

this is fraud to HMRC. From that point of view the Government does

have a role, I believe, also to keep these mums in employment, not

claiming benefits. They should be out there so it is a double cost to

the taxpayer. We need a system that has effective enforcement powers and

let's the court do the job if the court is the more effective way of

identifying what somebody should owe, but at the moment the CMS seems

to be causing more of a blockage in some instances. Example of court

awarding or saying that a parent should pay ?3500 a month in arrears,

very wealthy and by the time it got into hands of the CMS it was ?11.

What? We are talking about, not everybody, of course, behaves, there

are the rotten apples that are out there. At the minute I'm

self-employed again, you need to reassess my income. So people are

deliberately moving between employment and self employment

because they know they'll get reassessed so they are playing the

system? It is one of the most fundamental flaws in the system.

What recommendation can you come up with in your report which is due

next week to stop that? One basic thing we'd like to see, if the old

CSA system there was a thing called lifestyle incompatible with income.

Look at the house, the cars, the holidays, this parent isn't earning,

you know, minimum wage. That used to be taken into account. That's been

removed in the new CMS system and that's a fundamental tool that we

need. I'd like to see greater enforcement powers, more staff

chasing up and those arrears are so important. There seems to be, I

understand prioritisation with resource in the DWP, but these

arrears, ?500 and ?1,000 might seem a small amount to many in the grand

scheme of things, but when we are talking families on low incomes,

this is a huge amount of money. Some of the things coming in the report,

will they work? Is that what's needed? She's right that they have

gone from a model which is simple and cheap to operate, but it is not

giving a fair deal and when it comes to arrears, that can take effort and

resources. Particularly when someone is self-employed. It is easy to hide

and it is almost like if it becomes too difficult, they won't bother and

that's not acceptable because children of traders and business

people they need child maintenance like everyone else. That's right

when they're self-employed they don't want to know. It is too much

like hard work for them to do any investigations and they just let it

go and they just listen to what they're saying, what their earnings

are. I have been told that we can only work things out on what he's

telling us that he's earning. I know he's earning more money than that, I

know, he is. HMRC under the new system will be able to look at what

the tax return is. If they're fiddling the tax figures... They

don't. That's not on there. Let Michael finish. The other thing

which is, there is a second fundamental flaw of the assessment

system which is how it works in shared parenting arrangements.

Currently, we have a system which effectively divides parents into the

old-fashioned way of looking at provider, father, and carer, mother.

It doesn't take into account that a lot of people would and do have

shared parenting arrangements and it discourages them. So for example, if

the parent more or less share equal parenting after they've separated

between them then actually all of the benefits and allowances for the

child go to the one parent who has got slightly more time than the

other. Which can be five, ten, ?15,000 a year. They will on top of

that be expected to make child maintenance payments. So although

they're both caring for their child and giving their love and attention

and care as well as practical, physical care for their children,

the formula actually doesn't reflect it and it undermines the principles

of the 2014 Children and Families Act which encourages shared

parenting. It obstructs it. Let me read some messages. Michelle

e-mailed to say, "My children's father has religious paid paint nans

for our three children for the past 13 years. He has provided ?50. He is

a self-employed painter and decorator and he earns ?200 a month

according to his accountant. This isn't true. I asked Government

authorities for help. They, the CS and the tax authorities ask me to

investigate him and provide evidence. My children's father and

the Government have let us down." Grace says, "I never received a

penny towards the cost of bringing up my children. Their father could

afford new cars and frequent holidays while we were watching

every penny and buying from discount and second-hand shops. He never

looked after them or did any work connected with their upbringing."

What was it, lifestyle incompatible with income and if you're driving a

Ferrari and say you're only on ?200 a month, something doesn't add up.

It is in the CMS' interest... We've had people ringing us say they rung

the abuse helpline and the guy on the end of the phone said, "What do

you expect us to do about it? We're getting inundated with calls from

ex-partners demanding we investigate income. We haven't got the

resources." Unless HMRC work by the biggest bang for the buck and these

are small traders, small businessmen, they are not a priority

and that means children are losing out. Thank you so much all of you.

Thank you for coming on the programme. Cheers, Heather as well.

Thank you for your time, we appreciate it.

Since the murder of the MP Jo Cox last June,

police have investigated 53 crimes against Members of Parliament.

We will hear from one MP who is installing security systems in his

home because he is worried. Drug use at every level of sport

is "fast becoming a crisis"- that's the verdict of UK

Anti-Doping, who have described a BBC poll which shows widespread

doping in amateur sport It found more than a third

of amateur sports people say they personally know someone who has

doped, and 8% say they Half believe performance enhancing

substance use is "widespread" among I'm calling to sports within the UK

to help fund a robust and extensive anti-doping programme.

Former amateur cyclist Dan Stevens was banned

He told BBC Sport it wasn't about winning,

Were you ever scared of getting caught?

And like I say, I think the real thing for me wasn't really about

racing, I didn't do a lot of racing on these substances.

The main thing was curiosity. What does this do?

How much of a benefit does this give you?

And how does that change perceptions of what you need to do

I think it's widespread in all ranks.

I think it's widespread in celebrity,

I think it's widespread in the beauty industry,

I think it's certainly widespread

I also think it's just a way of modern-day life.

So how widespread is doping in amateur sport?

We can speak to Professor John Brewer who is a professor of Sport's

We can speak to Professor John Brewer who is a professor of sports

science at St Mary's University, London.

He's also a board member at UK Anti-Doping.

We also have Michelle Verroken from our Oxford news room,

Why do you think it is as widespread as it is in amateur sport? I think

it is. The figures are shocking. We have known for sometime there has

been a lot of use of banned substances. There are a number of

reasons and it does vary from one sport to another. Some athletes,

individuals, will try to improve their performance and want to get in

the first 15 and want to do better in road races or cycling events and

there are others who do it for the image. They want to have that great

six pack and build up the muscle bulk and look good. We have called

it amateur, but we must remember even at that level, people can earn

substantial amounts of money at the weekend winning races, playing for

their rugby team doing well at sport. The incentive to do that and

to continue doing so for as long as you can is great. The substances

available through the criminal punned world and in gyms, and the

internet and people can access those substances and use them to enhance

their performance. Michelle, do you think this is a big deal? Well,

certainly, I don't think it is a surprise because we've always known

that at amateur level certainly there has been the interest in

trying to supplement or enhance performance, but we've seen in this

country particularly a change in the sports culture to a really a no

compromise, anything to win, medals are so important and so we shouldn't

be surprised that people a the community lel of sport are looking

to the elite sports people and thinking, "Well, how do I get to be

as good as them?" Do you buy that? Yeah, I do. Michelle is right and I

think that the problem is the incentive is there to do so and I

agree with Nicole Sapstead who says we need for substantial funding of

the anti-doping authorities. If you compare one medal that Team GB won

at the Rio Games. OK, so you say more money for testing including

testing amateurs? Again, it is how you define amateurs and it is that

level where you have aspiring athletes who want to get on to the

performance pathway and earn the bigger money. Amateur doesn't exist

at that level where we're seeing a lot of the drug taking. You play

rugby for your local team today. You can earn money in a greater way than

you could 10, 15 or 20 years ago. So there is that incentive to do so.

There are the other reasons, there is the body beautiful image factor,

the incentive and the ability is there, we need to work closely with

the national governing bodies of sport that runs sport from

grass-roots level up to elite level to get them to support the targeted

testing at recreational level which only happens at the elite level

because that's all the funding allows us to do. Would you agree

more cash to do targeted testing? What I'm concerned about is that

this particular research has been turned into a cry for more money for

anti-doping. I actually think we have to be quite honest and say

well, testing is quite limited in its effectiveness and do we really

want to extend testing down to amateur level so that actually we

could be dissuading people from getting involved in sport and I mean

it would be inappropriate in a society where we've got an obesity

crisis, a concern with the lack of physical activity, that sudden we

start sanctioning and testing at the amateur level and in fact fact

people are dissuaded from taking part in activities. In countries

like Denmark, Norway, they do test in the gyms and that's part of what

you sign up to, but I think it's vital we think about what we really

need to do because we don't know at the elite level how much testing is

enough. We tested Lance Armstrong, Marian Jones extensively and never

ever tested them positive. So, smarter testing by all means, but

also we need to break this monopoly. We have one national anti-doping

organisation trying to now extend its tentacles into recognisery

rational level sport when in actual fact this could become something

that is more about the integrity of the way we live our lives. Thank you

both. Thank you very much. Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of the news. Police have arrested a man

on suspicion of murdering a one-year-old boy at a flat

in North London. The man will also be

questioned on suspicion of attempting to murder a girl,

thought to be the boy's twin sister. The boy died in the early hours

of Sunday and the girl remains in a critical condition

in hospital. Care companies have cancelled

contracts with 95 UK councils, saying they cannot deliver services

for the amount they are being paid. A BBC Panorama investigation

found some firms said they could not recruit or retain

the staff they needed. The Local Government Association

said the situation was the result of "historic under-funding"

and an ageing population. Figures obtained by this programme

show 1.2 million single-parent families are owed child maintenance

in the UK. Many of those families have been

chasing the payments for years, and government figures suggest

the total child maintenance debt At least 17 people have been killed

in Ghana when a huge tree was swept over a waterfall and crashed down

onto a group of swimmers below. The tree had been uprooted

during a powerful storm. Most of those killed

were high school pupils. The director of the FBI,

James Comey, will give evidence today about alleged Russian

interference in the US Appearing before the House

Intelligence Committee, he's also expected to face questions

about a second explosive issue - President Trump's claim

that his predecessor, Barack Obama, authorised a wire-tap

of Trump Tower during the campaign. That's a summary of the latest news,

join me for BBC Newsroom Laura has an 18-month-old daughter,

breast-fed her for seven or eight months. I tried to give her breast

milk from a bottle and I was asked by others in public why I wasn't

breast-feeding. The bigger my daughter got, I was asked why I was

still breast-feeding. You can't win. You maybe want to put Socks on that

child, some youngsters muttered. My child took her own Socks off. The

first time I was in a pub since my daughter had been

born, she was five months, I had a pint of cider. A person muttered

about me. There is nothing wrong with having a pint of cider with

your Sunday lunch even if you have had a baby, it's fine! Now the

sport. Olly Foster has the morning's

sports headlines now. These are headlines this morning

at the start of our state of sport The head of UK anti-doping

Nicole Sapstead says she's alarmed at the results of a BBC Poll looking

at doping in amateur sport. 35% said they have

known someone who used In the Premier League,

Manchester City and Liverpool remain third and fourth in the table

after cancelling each other out Sergio Aguero scored City's

equaliser in the 1-1 draw Tottenham Hotspur are now clear

in second place after beating Christian Eriksen and Dele

Alli scored the goals. They are ten points

behind leaders Chelsea. And the rejeuvenated Roger Federer

has won his second title of the year after an 18th major triumph

at the Australian Open. The 35-year-has become then oldest

man to win an ATP Masters title. He beat fellow swiss Stan Wawrinka

in the Indian Wells final. I'll be back with more

sport on BBC News Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces'

Sweetheart is 100 years old today. A 350-foot image of her

projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover last night

although a flypast by a pair of spitfires over the cliffs set

for 11 am this morning has # The white cliffs

of Dover # The little things that made

you cry # There were angels

dining at the Ritz... # But I know we'll meet

again some sunny day. # England shall be free # If England

means as much to you Dame Vera Lynn says she's thrilled

by the tributes and will be thinking of all those servicemen and women

who'd glanced back at the White Cliffs of Dover

they'd headed off to war. This is her speaking

with her daughter Virginia on a special programme for her 100th

birthday on BBC Two on Saturday. What decided you to go to Burma?

Well, I just wanted to go somewhere that nobody had been before. Yes. So

they said, no-one's gone to Burma yet. So I said, right, that's where

I'll go. Because it was very hot and humid out there. Very hot? Very hot.

Couldn't wear make-up, only a lipstick. That was the first mistake

I made, putting make-up on. And the other one was? Having a perm wasn't

it? Oh, yes, I shouldn't have had a perm. I had terrible trouble. It

would have been easier to control with my hair straight. It went all

phrasy. There's Len on the left. You just had Len on piano didn't you?

Yes. We used to carry that around with us. Not literally. In a little

truck. It didn't suffer an awful lot when you consider in the state of

the roads. We did have trouble at one time when we just started a

concert and the sides fell off. The sides of the piano fell off and the

boys had to rush up and hold the sides on before we could continue

the programme. A lot of flies around out there

weren't there? Oh, yes, they used to settle on my bowl of soup and I

useded to have to skim them off with my spoon and try and duck underneath

the flies so I could get some soup. The Queen wrote to her to mark

her birthday saying, "You cheered and uplifted us

all in the war and after the war, and I am sure that this evening

the blue birds of Dover will be flying over to wish you a happy

anniversary, Elizabeth R." Full coverage of the tributes to her

throughout the day on BBC News. Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson

has warned that the party is facing a battle for its existence

because of what he's labelled a "secret plan" by the Unite union

to support the left-wing Our political guru Norman Smith

is at the Unison headquarters Remind us who Momentum are? Jeremy

Corbyn's number two says there is a secret plot by Momentum to take over

the Labour Party and, says Mr Watson, they are poised to get large

amounts of funding from Labour's biggest union, Unite. He says,

following a tape-recording of a conversation by the man in charge of

Momentum, John Lanceman, there are apparently plans to take over

regional Labour Parties to get rid of critical local councillors to

take over the machinery of the Labour Party, to reintroduce

mandatory reselection to get rid of MPs opposed to Jeremy Corbyn. There

is an orchestrated campaign, he says, to take over the Labour Party.

Now, it's one thing to believe that, but Mr Watson's chosen to go public

with such concerns which underlines I think A the seriousness of his

fears, but B, the level of in-fighting now within the highest

reaches of the Labour Party. Who have you been speaking to about

this, Norman? Well, I spoke to Mr Watson this morning who was adamant

that this is more serious, he says, than the 1980s when you had

militant. Mr Corbyn's team seem to be aghast at the claims. Mr Corbyn

himself when arriving for an away-day here, well have a look, he

wasn't saying much. Is there a plot to take over

the Labour Party Mr Corbyn? So not much joy. His close allie and

Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell was a bit more talkative when I got

hold of him. What he's trying to do

is influence the election of the general secretary

of Unite and he's dragged the Labour

Party into this, completely From what I've seen, Momentum

is like the organisation Tom's associated with, like Labour First

and Progress and others who want trade union support, of course

they do, and they want trade union At this point in time

to be raising it In the week that the ballot papers

go out for the Unite election I think this is about Tom's

interference in the Unite election. Well, he obviously wants to install

the candidate of his choice. Is it part of a move

against Mr Corbyn? Len McCluskey is a big

backer of Jeremy. I think it's all about Tom

and the internal battle Dragging the party into this

is disappointing. Mr McDonnell insists, this is not

Civil War, but you have to say, looking at it from the outside, it

looks remarkably like it when you have the Deputy Leader talking about

an orchestrated campaign led in part by the leader of the biggest union

supporting the Labour Party to take over the machinery of the Labour

Party and move it in another direction all together. These are

very, very serious allegations. The response of team Corbyn is to say

this is all part of Mr Watson trying to innawns a leadership contest

going on within Unite. As for Momentum, they say there's nothing

wrong about trying to shift the direction of the Labour Party,

they're quite open about their beliefs, yes, they do organise the

Labour Party, they want to promote their candidates, what's wrong with

that, they say. Thank you very much, Norman.

Facebook said it would work with organisations to flag up articles

making spurious claims and warn users when they posted the stories.

It seems to have put that into practise. One article about claims

that thousands of Irish people were taken to the US as slaves now

attracts an on screen warping that the claims have been widely disputed

-- warning. Ben Thompson is here with us now. Fill us in? I've tried

to post that fake news article and it allowed me to do that without any

warning whatsoever. About the Irish? And the fake slave trade that was a

fake news article, yes. This is very much in the early stages as far as

Facebook is concerned. You talk about November when we heard from

the boss of Facebook, he said look, we have a duty to make sure what we

share online is real. They talked about different proposals, saying

they were working on eseven different proposals to make sure

what we share online is accurate. It came to line during the EE

referendum campaign and the US elections, those were two big

criticisms for Facebook -- the EU. The most scandalous headlines and

the most wild chimes are the ones that often get shared most. Facebook

say they have now, if you post something that they think is fake,

you will get a warning and it says that the authenticity of this

article's been disputed, do you want to read why and it gives you links

to fact-checking websites. You can still post that if you want to but

it will come with a warning, we are told. And they've done this because

they've worked with two organisations that are checking the

accuracy of articles. If they think it's disputed, they'll flag up a

warning meaning we should know if what we are sharing is true. How do

they work out that the fakeriness of an article? This is when it gets

difficult. They are working with different organisations, they have

pure fact-checking statistics making sure the data is right. When it's

based on news, it's whether the news article is accurate, so

organisations like the Associated Press, for example. So they want

that from two sources. You need to have two sources to dispute it. What

is really interesting, Facebook doesn't say it's not true, they

don't say it's fake, they say the authenticity is disputed so it won't

go as far as saying it's not true. The big question then comes into

Facebook's definition of what is Facebook, is it a publisher of

information, a news source or a platform that allows us to share

information? And I think if we view it very much as a platform to share

information, they have maybe less responsibility over the accuracy of

that data, but if they're a publisher, many people say they

should be much more aware of what is being published on their website and

whether it's true. If you want to post an article on Facebook and the

notice disputes it, are you as likely to share that? Or do you not

want your mates to go, it's disputed, what are you posting it

for? If it will come with a warning saying it might not be true, you can

click on the links to find out why, it's that second set of eyes, isn't

it, it's that thing that might make us stop for a moment and think, is

what we are publishing really true because Facebook, Twitter, all of

the social media channels are great because we can share information but

I think it's so easy to do that nowadays that you don't probably

think about how true it is if you are clicking on share now. Maybe you

are right, it gives you that second pause for thought to think, is this

true and if not do I real hi want to post it -- really want to post it.

That could be enough to make people think about it, and to think about

whether that bit of gossip is true before you click share.

Death threats, hate-filled messages, harassment and criminal damage,

a small snapshot of the kind of abuse MPs have received

in the six months after the murder of MP Jo Cox in June.

A specialised police team set-up to investigate crimes against MPs

says it's looking at 50 complaints in the last six months.

So to give us an insight into the kind of abuse MPs get