31/03/2017

:00:08. > :00:09.Hello, it's Friday, it's 9am, I'm Victoria Derbyshire -

:00:10. > :00:18.A longer wait for routine operations in England.

:00:19. > :00:21.NHS bosses say it's a "trade-off" for improvements in other areas.

:00:22. > :00:22.There are a significant proportion of people

:00:23. > :00:25.who don't need to be there, who don't want to be there,

:00:26. > :00:29.and if we could get them out that would free up something like 2000

:00:30. > :00:32.to 3000 beds in the NHS, which can be used more

:00:33. > :00:36.effectively for providing quicker elective surgery.

:00:37. > :00:40.Will tough new sanctions against adults who send explicit

:00:41. > :00:47.messages to children be enough to stop the problem of grooming?

:00:48. > :00:50.One woman tells us what happened to her.

:00:51. > :00:54.I didn't want to cause trouble and, like, not be believed.

:00:55. > :00:57.But yeah, I knew I had to say something.

:00:58. > :01:01.And we'll have a special report on why some young voters in France

:01:02. > :01:24.Hello, welcome to the programme, we're live until 11am this morning.

:01:25. > :01:26.Are you waiting for a non-urgent operation?

:01:27. > :01:29.If so, we'd love to hear from you this morning about how long

:01:30. > :01:33.Are you one of the many people who've arrived at hospital only

:01:34. > :01:35.to have your operation cancelled on the day?

:01:36. > :01:38.Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning -

:01:39. > :01:43.If you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.

:01:44. > :01:50.We are going to go and live now to hear from Donald Tusk, the president

:01:51. > :01:54.of the European Council. You can see the podium there, he is waiting to

:01:55. > :01:57.speak in Malta in the next few minutes, he will of course be

:01:58. > :02:01.talking about those Brexit negotiations, so we will go back to

:02:02. > :02:04.that live as soon as it happens, you won't miss anything at all.

:02:05. > :02:09.Our top story today - patients will have to wait longer

:02:10. > :02:11.for routine operations, such as hip and knee replacements

:02:12. > :02:14.as a "trade-off", so that improvements can be made in other

:02:15. > :02:19.That's according to the Head of NHS England, Simon Stevens,

:02:20. > :02:22.who says "choices have to be made" because of increasing patient demand

:02:23. > :02:31.Iris Ram is 96 and is recovering from a recent illness.

:02:32. > :02:40.Her GP called a local NHS service based in Nottinghamshire

:02:41. > :02:43.to give her the right care in the right place.

:02:44. > :02:46.The treatment at home has been absolutely wonderful.

:02:47. > :02:50.Iris is well cared for - a priority for the NHS.

:02:51. > :02:53.But it's acknowledged the system is under pressure, and tough

:02:54. > :02:59.Today, NHS England leaders are taking stock of progress

:03:00. > :03:04.since their five-year plan was published in 2014.

:03:05. > :03:09.Aims set out in the new strategy include improving cancer survival

:03:10. > :03:11.rates, increased access to mental health therapies and

:03:12. > :03:28.But with limited resources it means the 18 week target for planned

:03:29. > :03:33.operations is increasingly likely to be missed. Many of these procedures

:03:34. > :03:41.are life changing, some are life-saving. We know that people

:03:42. > :03:47.sometimes die on waiting lists, waiting for heart surgery. The

:03:48. > :03:51.longer you wait, the more likely that is to happen. We know that

:03:52. > :03:52.people are waiting for gall bladder operations, the longer you wait, the

:03:53. > :03:57.more likely it is. Today is about setting out

:03:58. > :04:00.what is possible with the money allocated by the Government

:04:01. > :04:02.to the NHS in England. But, at a time of increased demand,

:04:03. > :04:13.what is not addressed Let's go straight to Malta now where

:04:14. > :04:18.Donald Tusk has begun speaking. As you know, the treaty gives us

:04:19. > :04:24.only two years to reach an agreement. Allow me to outline the

:04:25. > :04:30.main elements and principles of my proposal. We treat them as

:04:31. > :04:39.fundamental and will firmly stand by them. Our duty is to minimise the

:04:40. > :04:44.uncertainty and disruption caused by the UK decision to withdraw from the

:04:45. > :04:50.EU for our citizens, businesses, and member states, as I have already

:04:51. > :04:58.said in essence it is about damage control. We need to think of people

:04:59. > :05:06.first. Citizens from all over the EU live, work and study in the UK. And

:05:07. > :05:14.as long as the UK remains a member, their rights are fully protected.

:05:15. > :05:17.But we need to settle the situation after the withdrawal with

:05:18. > :05:25.reciprocal, enforceable, and non-discriminatory guarantees.

:05:26. > :05:31.Second, we must prevent a legal vacuum for our companies that stems

:05:32. > :05:40.from the fact that, after Brexit, EU laws will no longer apply to the UK.

:05:41. > :05:45.Third, we also need to make sure that the UK offers all financial

:05:46. > :05:54.commitment and liabilities it has taken as a member state. It is only

:05:55. > :06:00.fair towards all those people, communities, scientists, farmers and

:06:01. > :06:08.so on to whom we, all the 28, promised and Bob This Is Money. I

:06:09. > :06:14.can guarantee that the EU, on our part, will honour all under

:06:15. > :06:18.commitments -- all other commitments. Fourth, we will seek

:06:19. > :06:24.flexible and creative solutions aiming at avoiding a hard border

:06:25. > :06:28.between Northern Ireland and Ireland. It is of crucial importance

:06:29. > :06:33.to support the peace process in Northern Ireland. These four issues

:06:34. > :06:43.are all part of the first phase of our negotiation. Once, and only

:06:44. > :06:46.once, we have achieved sufficient progress of the four can we discuss

:06:47. > :06:51.the framework of our future relationship. Starting parallel

:06:52. > :07:00.talks on all issues at the same time, as suggested by some in the

:07:01. > :07:04.UK, will not happen. And when talking about our future

:07:05. > :07:10.relationship, we obviously shared the UK's desire to establish a close

:07:11. > :07:16.partnership between us. Strong ties reaching beyond the economy and

:07:17. > :07:24.including security cooperation remain in our common interest. Let

:07:25. > :07:28.me conclude by saying that the talks which are about to start will be

:07:29. > :07:36.difficult, complex, and sometimes even confrontational. There is no

:07:37. > :07:43.way around it. The EU 27 does not and will not pursue a punitive

:07:44. > :07:50.approach. Brexit in itself is already punitive enough. After more

:07:51. > :07:54.than 40 years of being united, we owe it to each other to do

:07:55. > :08:00.everything we can to make this divorce as smooth as possible. This

:08:01. > :08:05.is also why Prime Minister May and I have agreed to stay in close and

:08:06. > :08:10.regular contact throughout this process. I intend to visit Theresa

:08:11. > :08:17.May in London before the April European Union Council. As rotating

:08:18. > :08:25.presidency, we see the guidelines that have just been submitted by

:08:26. > :08:31.President Tusk as constructive. It will be a very tough negotiation, an

:08:32. > :08:39.unprecedented negotiation for the European Union since previously, in

:08:40. > :08:46.all such negotiations, it was about getting closer, not getting further

:08:47. > :08:52.away from each other. It will be a tough negotiation, but it will not

:08:53. > :08:59.be a war. At the end of the day, the two sides will need to remain close

:09:00. > :09:06.to each other as friends, but it is obvious for the 27 that membership

:09:07. > :09:11.of the European Union is the superior option. The priority, as

:09:12. > :09:16.set out in the draft guidelines which will now be discussed and are

:09:17. > :09:27.just now starting being discussed in Brussels, show very clearly that the

:09:28. > :09:32.first priority is the settling of issues relating to citizens. We need

:09:33. > :09:36.to make sure that our citizens, European citizens in the United

:09:37. > :09:41.Kingdom and British citizens in the European Union, are not used as

:09:42. > :09:47.bargaining chips by any side, so I do believe that there is a wide

:09:48. > :09:55.ranging commitment to settle this issue as quickly as possible. As

:09:56. > :10:01.President Tusk was saying, and has already declared in our initial

:10:02. > :10:06.statements, the 27 see no room for parallel negotiations. First, there

:10:07. > :10:15.needs to be an agreement on the principles of the United Kingdom's

:10:16. > :10:20.orderly withdrawal from the European Union, but once those principles are

:10:21. > :10:26.agreed, and before actually going on with those negotiations, once there

:10:27. > :10:33.is sufficient progress that it will be determined by date European

:10:34. > :10:38.Council alone, negotiations on a new phase, a new relationship, will be

:10:39. > :10:47.able to start by council giving a mandate to the negotiator to do so.

:10:48. > :10:54.It is imperative to stress that, while the European Union and member

:10:55. > :11:01.states are showing flexibility in making it clear that they are ready

:11:02. > :11:09.for transition periods as necessary, those transition periods need to be

:11:10. > :11:15.governed by European institutions, since those are the institutions

:11:16. > :11:25.that would be sovereign in taking decisions. Finally, the issue of

:11:26. > :11:30.Northern Ireland is being given serious and special consideration by

:11:31. > :11:38.the 27. We know the sensitivities that exist on the Irish issue, and

:11:39. > :11:45.we are looking at creative and pragmatic solutions to see that

:11:46. > :11:55.peace and stability on the Irish aisle are not ended. Thank you.

:11:56. > :12:00.Chris Morris from the BBC. President Tusk, your document talks about the

:12:01. > :12:05.fact there will be no separate negotiations between individual

:12:06. > :12:09.member states and the UK. You have talked a lot about unity in the past

:12:10. > :12:13.week, this makes it sound like you are worried that the UK will try to

:12:14. > :12:18.pick of individual countries and have those negotiations. How can you

:12:19. > :12:23.be sure that won't happen? Secondly, the document talks about not moving

:12:24. > :12:26.onto the second phase of the negotiation involving trade talks

:12:27. > :12:34.and future trade relationships until sufficient progress has been made

:12:35. > :12:36.the initial phase, what does sufficient progress mean? Is it

:12:37. > :12:39.simply the European capitals will to find that? And Prime Minister must

:12:40. > :12:48.step, your thoughts on those issues as well, thank you. This is my first

:12:49. > :12:59.divorce and I hope the last one. This is why I want to be very

:13:00. > :13:04.cautious and precise. First of all, when it comes to our unity and

:13:05. > :13:08.solidarity I have no doubt, especially after our summit in Rome

:13:09. > :13:19.and the Rome declaration, that this is not only a declaration, this is

:13:20. > :13:22.the truth, that all 27 will be united during the negotiations, and

:13:23. > :13:31.I have no doubt this is our common interest but also in the interest of

:13:32. > :13:37.the UK. If they want to achieve a constructive agreement, it means

:13:38. > :13:41.that they should discuss and negotiate only with the 27 as a

:13:42. > :13:49.union. This is the only way to achieve anything in this very

:13:50. > :13:54.difficult process. From my side, it is obvious that the British

:13:55. > :13:58.Government is in contact with all member states. I don't think that

:13:59. > :14:07.there is any instruction from Brussels or any institution not to

:14:08. > :14:11.have regular and normal relationship with our British counterparts, so we

:14:12. > :14:16.will continue to engage with the United Kingdom, and I think all

:14:17. > :14:22.member states will, but, and this is a clear demarcation line, when it

:14:23. > :14:27.comes to negotiations on this issue, on Brexit and on future

:14:28. > :14:31.relationships, there is a clear commitment by the 27 to have just

:14:32. > :14:39.one point of contact, and that point of contact is Mr Barnier, that is

:14:40. > :14:47.led exclusively from the European side and I do believe, as Donald has

:14:48. > :14:53.just said, this is not something of a lip service but this is true

:14:54. > :15:02.political commitment from each side. When it comes to your question on

:15:03. > :15:06.sufficient progress, yes, we are seeing that sufficient progress is

:15:07. > :15:10.determined exclusively by the European Council. Yes, I want to be

:15:11. > :15:21.very clear and support Joseph. It must be clear that the EU as 27

:15:22. > :15:23.decides it's sufficient progress has been achieved. Probably in the

:15:24. > :15:41.autumn, at least I hope so. Robin amateur from Reuters.

:15:42. > :15:44.President Tusk, in the guidelines there is envisaged some sort of

:15:45. > :15:49.transition period in which Britain would continue to pay into the EU

:15:50. > :15:53.budget and be under the jurisdiction of the ECJ. -- Robin Emmett from

:15:54. > :16:03.Reuters. Both of these reasons why people voted to leave the EU, I

:16:04. > :16:14.wonder why you included them? Let me say just one thing about

:16:15. > :16:23.money and some impressions on both sides of the Channel. There is no

:16:24. > :16:35.such thing as a Brexiter bill or penalty for leaving. If you want to

:16:36. > :16:41.talk about finance and commitment I have no doubt that for both sides it

:16:42. > :16:47.is really important to demonstrate that we want to be fair to reach the

:16:48. > :16:55.chewing the negotiations. I will add to that that there is no, as someone

:16:56. > :17:02.said, Brexiter bill. I think the letter that Prime Minister Mae has

:17:03. > :17:07.sent acknowledges that the UK has commitments, so what we are setting

:17:08. > :17:13.out in the draft guidelines, and I think there is a broad agreement on

:17:14. > :17:19.the document that Donald has put forward, OK, some things might be

:17:20. > :17:29.added and subtracted, but the essence is there. I do believe that

:17:30. > :17:35.the idea is one which shows and says that those commitments must be

:17:36. > :17:42.respected, and the idea is that we have to come up with the methodology

:17:43. > :17:49.that shows and calculates those commitments and also what Britain

:17:50. > :17:58.needs to take from European assets, as a balance sheet. I do believe

:17:59. > :18:03.that this is very, very obvious. On the ECJ and other European

:18:04. > :18:06.institutions governing transition period, in our books transition

:18:07. > :18:14.period means that you are still Amber, or at used to have access --

:18:15. > :18:18.are still a member or at least still have access to and Bishop situation.

:18:19. > :18:24.If you have such access it goes without saying that the institutions

:18:25. > :18:28.we have agreed upon need to government. We would obviously not

:18:29. > :18:33.intrude on what happens afterwards within the United Kingdom. Then,

:18:34. > :18:37.when it comes to a free trade agreement, we would have to have

:18:38. > :18:42.negotiations, and those would then determine what type of institutions

:18:43. > :18:54.will govern that new type of arrangement. REPORTER: One last

:18:55. > :18:58.question. Television Malta, to date there has been concerned following

:18:59. > :19:04.Prime Minister May's letter on the link between the trade agreement and

:19:05. > :19:09.future security cooperation. Is this acceptable? Have you received any

:19:10. > :19:18.concerns from member states about Prime Minister May's letter?

:19:19. > :19:28.Know, especially after the terrorist attack in London. -- no, especially

:19:29. > :19:35.after. It is to be clear that terrorism is our common problem and

:19:36. > :19:41.security is our common problem. I know Theresa May well enough and I

:19:42. > :19:51.know her approach to this issue. This is why I rule out this kind of

:19:52. > :20:03.interpretation and speculation to be used as a bargaining chip. It must

:20:04. > :20:07.be a misunderstanding. Our partners are wise and decent partners, this

:20:08. > :20:14.is why I am absolutely sure that no one is interested in using security

:20:15. > :20:20.cooperation as a bargaining chip. I would like to confirm that even

:20:21. > :20:26.though it was something that hit the headlines and really and truly many

:20:27. > :20:33.people, including ourselves, noted, we have had reassurances from the

:20:34. > :20:38.British Government that this is a misinterpretation. We will take, at

:20:39. > :20:43.least my Government, will take the word of the British Government. We

:20:44. > :20:47.do believe that they are decent partners, people who will not

:20:48. > :20:52.bargain on security of any of our citizens, and I do believe that we

:20:53. > :21:03.will start negotiations in this spirit of sincere cooperation. Thank

:21:04. > :21:09.you very much. STUDIO: That was the president of the European Council,

:21:10. > :21:13.Donald Tusk, speaking with Maltese Prime Minister -- the Maltese Prime

:21:14. > :21:16.Minister. They are talking about the Brexit negotiations. He outlined an

:21:17. > :21:19.interesting number of points, he says there will not be

:21:20. > :21:22.conversations, parallel conversations about trade and

:21:23. > :21:26.commitments. That seek to Europe correspondent

:21:27. > :21:31.Damian Grammaticas in Brussels. Interesting that he outlined those

:21:32. > :21:34.four areas that he wanted to be sorted, Donald Tusk, before

:21:35. > :21:39.contemplating a decision about trade. Take us through those? This

:21:40. > :21:46.is what PE you site has identified as the most pressing issues to be

:21:47. > :21:52.settled first of all in this Article 50 exit process -- this is what the

:21:53. > :21:57.EU side has identified. There has been lobbying from citizens, it use

:21:58. > :22:03.it as an living in the UK, UK citizens living in the EU -- EU

:22:04. > :22:09.citizens living in the UK. Those people have rights to live, work,

:22:10. > :22:12.study. What will happen to those rights in the future? The second

:22:13. > :22:20.thing he talked about was preventing a vacuum of laws, that talks about

:22:21. > :22:26.businesses, what certainty they will have, EU, the guidelines we have now

:22:27. > :22:30.here talking about those benefiting from EU money, project extending

:22:31. > :22:35.into the long-term. Backers into the third issue, the UK's financial

:22:36. > :22:40.commitments, he says both sides must honour those. Donald Tusk made the

:22:41. > :22:46.point that this is not a Brexiter bill, this is a settling of

:22:47. > :22:52.accounts. -- this is not a Brexit bill. He said this is payment

:22:53. > :22:56.promised to farmers, scientists, people that obligations have been

:22:57. > :22:59.made to that must be met. The last thing was the Ireland/ Northern

:23:00. > :23:03.Ireland border, we have seen a bigger effort by the Irish

:23:04. > :23:11.Government to press this, it is identified as a key priority. There

:23:12. > :23:14.was recognition that these could be difficult conversations, sometimes

:23:15. > :23:18.confrontational, Donald Tusk said those words. Talking about security

:23:19. > :23:23.cooperation, he said there was misunderstanding about the letter

:23:24. > :23:26.from Theresa May? He said this is a common problem for priority to

:23:27. > :23:32.tackle terror, that is something that must be done together. But I

:23:33. > :23:36.think the take from this whole thing, this document, what we heard

:23:37. > :23:44.Donald Tusk say, which is that the EUG side is very clearly setting the

:23:45. > :23:49.agenda now -- the EU side. The timetable the EU was setting, saying

:23:50. > :23:54.exit talks, there must be sufficient progress, we heard them in that

:23:55. > :23:58.press conference saying it is the EU side, the 27, who will decide when

:23:59. > :24:00.that has been sufficient, where they are happy that enough detail has

:24:01. > :24:05.been nailed down on the Exeter agreement and they will move on to

:24:06. > :24:11.the future relationship and the transition. -- on the exit

:24:12. > :24:15.agreement. From the EU side, they made very clear if there is a

:24:16. > :24:19.transitional period during which the UK continues to access the single

:24:20. > :24:26.market, it will be on the EU's rules, they said. Payment into the

:24:27. > :24:29.EU budget, rules of the Court of Justice applying, the EU laying down

:24:30. > :24:36.its principles and we will see the EU trying to enforce what it sees as

:24:37. > :24:42.how the negotiation must proceed. Donald Tusk very clearly said that a

:24:43. > :24:46.person or people in the UK have been advancing the idea of parallel

:24:47. > :24:49.negotiations on the future status for the UK, along with the

:24:50. > :24:54.withdrawal agreement. The person advocating those is the UK Prime

:24:55. > :24:59.Minister, Theresa May. He said absolutely that will not happen. A

:25:00. > :25:04.very clear message from the EU who now, I think, will be in control of

:25:05. > :25:14.a lot of the dynamic of this. Thank you very much, Damian.

:25:15. > :25:15.We'll also get reaction throughout the programme, we are live until

:25:16. > :25:18.11am. Another story we will talk about is

:25:19. > :25:22.the NHS. Are you on a waiting list for a routine operation? Have you

:25:23. > :25:26.had a routine operation cancelled on the day you have arrived at

:25:27. > :25:29.hospital? You can get in touch with us on Twitter. We want to hear and

:25:30. > :25:33.share your stories as ever. Across the country thousands

:25:34. > :25:36.of children are groomed each year, and while the Government created

:25:37. > :25:39.a law to make this illegal 2 years ago they never put it into force

:25:40. > :25:41.in England and Wales. From Monday that will all change

:25:42. > :25:44.and will mean any message sent by an adult to a child that relates

:25:45. > :25:47.to sexual activity will be considered grooming

:25:48. > :25:49.and therefore illegal. Earlier I spoke to to Molly,

:25:50. > :25:52.which isn't her real name and wants to remain anonymous, who was groomed

:25:53. > :25:55.when she was 15 years old, she's now 21, and Tony Stower

:25:56. > :25:57.from the NSPCC who campaigned So, Molly, just start by telling us

:25:58. > :26:05.how old you were when this began. And who was the person

:26:06. > :26:12.who approached you, It was an adult, a volunteer

:26:13. > :26:18.at a youth club I used to attend. Well, first off,

:26:19. > :26:28.he befriended my dad. Then we used to go

:26:29. > :26:32.round his house and stuff. Then we all added each

:26:33. > :26:34.other on Facebook. And what were the sort of messages

:26:35. > :26:39.that he was sending you? At first, it was just

:26:40. > :26:45.normal conversation. How's your family, how's

:26:46. > :26:48.your dad, all of that. Then it started getting more,

:26:49. > :26:51.where he was using names for me, And then one morning

:26:52. > :26:57.I got up for school, checked my Facebook,

:26:58. > :27:00.as I used to do, and he messaged me, saying he was doing stuff

:27:01. > :27:06.to himself, while his partner So, you know, I just closed my

:27:07. > :27:16.laptop down and went to school. That must have been quite

:27:17. > :27:23.frightening, at 15, to read that? But I just sort of closed my laptop

:27:24. > :27:28.down and carried on with my day. Well, he got my number

:27:29. > :27:39.through Facebook, off So I started getting

:27:40. > :27:48.messages from him when I was He would text me, saying

:27:49. > :27:53.he was outside my house in his car. He used to try to get me to go out

:27:54. > :28:02.and meet him, outside my house. One time I had to get my sisters

:28:03. > :28:04.to close my curtains, so I could crawl around

:28:05. > :28:07.on the floor, so he But he would always do it

:28:08. > :28:12.while my dad was out. Somehow he knew that

:28:13. > :28:16.my dad wasn't home. At what point did you start

:28:17. > :28:18.to feel uncomfortable, Pretty much from the

:28:19. > :28:26.Facebook incident. But the last lot of texts that

:28:27. > :28:30.I got, he was telling me he had feelings for me and stuff,

:28:31. > :28:32.that he had to try Telling me that I looked

:28:33. > :28:37.beautiful, the night before, when I went to the youth club,

:28:38. > :28:40.stuff like that. I just said to him,

:28:41. > :28:45.I don't want this. Telling him this is not what I want,

:28:46. > :28:53.I don't want to be a part of this. I told my best friend at the time,

:28:54. > :28:58.I let it slip to my brother. Between him, my best

:28:59. > :29:00.friend and another friend, they all bullied me into telling my

:29:01. > :29:05.dad what was going on. Did you realise you

:29:06. > :29:07.should tell someone? Was it that you were frightened,

:29:08. > :29:12.or you felt embarrassed? I just didn't want my

:29:13. > :29:15.dad to lose a friend. You know, I didn't

:29:16. > :29:18.want to cause trouble. This is a man who had children

:29:19. > :29:26.the same age as you? So, you told your dad

:29:27. > :29:34.and how did your dad react? He said I should have told him

:29:35. > :29:39.sooner and he could have got But he was calm, he had

:29:40. > :29:42.his head screwed on. He rang the child protection

:29:43. > :29:47.of the youth club that I went to. They got us straight down

:29:48. > :29:50.into the headquarters. They had a read through the messages

:29:51. > :29:58.that I had saved on my phone. Then they advised us

:29:59. > :30:02.to go to the police. How difficult is that,

:30:03. > :30:04.when you are 15, you're worried about whether you're going to be

:30:05. > :30:11.believed, showing those messages? And you went to the police,

:30:12. > :30:17.and the police took your The day that we went to the police,

:30:18. > :30:28.they took a recorded interview. Then I had to go back

:30:29. > :30:31.for video interviews. They had all my logins

:30:32. > :30:33.for my social media, What was that process

:30:34. > :30:44.like, as a 15-year-old? Yeah, considering I was

:30:45. > :30:47.going through my GCSEs and stuff at school,

:30:48. > :30:50.it did have a knock-on I just cracked on with

:30:51. > :31:00.what I had to do. At the end, was at the police

:31:01. > :31:04.who said to you, we can't do Yeah, the CPS, I got a letter

:31:05. > :31:08.from the CPS saying he's What reason did they

:31:09. > :31:15.give you for that? Because there wasn't

:31:16. > :31:24.enough evidence. I think they said they could have

:31:25. > :31:27.got him done for harassment, but it had taken too long

:31:28. > :31:29.for the police to go through all the phone

:31:30. > :31:31.and my social medias. Tony, people listening

:31:32. > :31:35.to this will be amazed that a story like Molly's,

:31:36. > :31:37.where there is obvious It's astonishing to think that it's

:31:38. > :31:44.still not illegal for an adult to send a sexual message to a child

:31:45. > :31:47.in England and Wales, unlike in Scotland

:31:48. > :31:48.and Northern Ireland, where this protection for children

:31:49. > :31:51.is already in place. The NSPCC has been campaigning

:31:52. > :31:54.for three years to change the law to finally make it illegal

:31:55. > :31:58.for adults to send We are really pleased the Government

:31:59. > :32:02.has finally listened. From Monday, children

:32:03. > :32:04.will be protected, just Today, if somebody sends a sexually

:32:05. > :32:07.explicit message to a child, The police just haven't got

:32:08. > :32:16.the tools to step in, until the abuse progresses to be

:32:17. > :32:19.something more dangerous. So, until an adult asks a child

:32:20. > :32:22.to commit a sexual act, We're really clear that

:32:23. > :32:27.waiting until that abuse Children need to be protected

:32:28. > :32:32.from the moment that they go online. You say that this is currently

:32:33. > :32:34.a crime in Scotland Do you have a sense of how many

:32:35. > :32:39.cases have been prevented, how many children have been

:32:40. > :32:44.protected from this? Certainly, in Scotland it has been

:32:45. > :32:51.in operation for about five years. Over the time there, they have

:32:52. > :32:54.recorded about 1500 offences. That means in England,

:32:55. > :32:56.if we scale that up, we think maybe 4000 offences

:32:57. > :32:58.could have been recorded That is 4000 cases that

:32:59. > :33:01.could have been recorded, where the police could have

:33:02. > :33:06.taken action earlier. How did you feel when the police

:33:07. > :33:14.or the CPS turned around to you, Molly, and said,

:33:15. > :33:17.When you'd been through all of that, the interviews,

:33:18. > :33:19.I was heartbroken, really heartbroken.

:33:20. > :33:25.Presumably that's the sort of thing you hear reasonably regularly

:33:26. > :33:30.We know that it can be very distressing for children to get

:33:31. > :33:37.That's exactly how online predators work, by building

:33:38. > :33:39.a relationship of trust, sending increasingly sexual

:33:40. > :33:41.messages with an aim of eventually meeting the child.

:33:42. > :33:44.We need to make sure that the police have the tools and resources

:33:45. > :33:48.so they can step in as early in the process as possible.

:33:49. > :33:51.It's really clear that there are things that parents and children

:33:52. > :33:57.can do to help protect themselves, by making sure they have the right

:33:58. > :33:59.privacy settings, especially in their social media accounts

:34:00. > :34:02.That is what Molly was saying, he got her phone

:34:03. > :34:05.You didn't even realise he could access that?

:34:06. > :34:12.There are steps that parents can take.

:34:13. > :34:15.There's loads of advice on the NSPCC website about it.

:34:16. > :34:18.If anybody's concerned about a child, they can always phone

:34:19. > :34:21.the NSPCC helpline and we will talk them through how they can take steps

:34:22. > :34:25.Molly realised this was wrong, she put a stop to it,

:34:26. > :34:28.there were never any meetings or anything like that.

:34:29. > :34:31.Are we doing enough, as parents, society, teachers, whatever,

:34:32. > :34:40.Because it's an awkward conversation to have with kids, isn't it?

:34:41. > :34:42.They are quite difficult conversations, about the risks

:34:43. > :34:45.of online behaviour and how to protect yourself.

:34:46. > :34:48.We are trying to support parents through the provision of the NSPCC

:34:49. > :34:51.helpline to make sure that parents can have some of those

:34:52. > :34:57.Where those relationships are built and parents can have those

:34:58. > :34:59.conversations in advance, that is the way to help protect

:35:00. > :35:05.children from these predators before the abuse escalates.

:35:06. > :35:08.Because you don't want to frighten young people and say,

:35:09. > :35:10.don't use social media, don't reach out to people.

:35:11. > :35:12.But, from your perspective, Molly, what would have helped you before

:35:13. > :35:14.so that you could have protected yourself better?

:35:15. > :35:17.I mean, it's clearly not your fault, but you understand what I'm saying?

:35:18. > :35:19.Did you feel you had enough information?

:35:20. > :35:24.To recognise the signs of what is going on would

:35:25. > :35:31.If anyone is watching this now, and they think this may

:35:32. > :35:35.be happening to them, it may be in the early stages,

:35:36. > :35:38.what would you say to that young person, or indeed to a parent

:35:39. > :35:40.who may fear it is happening to their child?

:35:41. > :35:55.It's that first step, isn't it, that's often the hardest, to say

:35:56. > :36:00.And that's fantastic advice, actually.

:36:01. > :36:03.If you, as a child, are concerned about any of this,

:36:04. > :36:05.speak to a responsible adult and they'll help you take action.

:36:06. > :36:08.Of course, any of these kind of sexual messages

:36:09. > :36:10.from an adult to a child will be illegal from Monday.

:36:11. > :36:12.It's really important they are reported to the police

:36:13. > :36:16.so the police can step in and stop the abuse before it escalates.

:36:17. > :36:20.How many children do you think this could potentially protect?

:36:21. > :36:22.Is this law going far enough, in your view?

:36:23. > :36:25.Well, this is a really big step forward and we are

:36:26. > :36:28.As I say, we think about 4000 offences could have been recorded

:36:29. > :36:32.But there is clearly more that we can do.

:36:33. > :36:34.We're really pleased that the Government starting to take

:36:35. > :36:36.action on relationships and sex education in schools.

:36:37. > :36:38.And there are organisations, like the NSPCC, who can help

:36:39. > :36:41.with some of the difficult online safety issues for

:36:42. > :36:52.Well, it affected my school life and my GCSE grades.

:36:53. > :37:04.At first it did, I was angry, I used to cry a lot about it and take it

:37:05. > :37:14.But now I don't really think it's had that much of a knock-on effect.

:37:15. > :37:17.Thank you both for coming on, I'm very grateful to both

:37:18. > :37:28.Lots of you are getting in touch about the NHS, the changes which are

:37:29. > :37:34.coming, the head of NHS England has been talking about a trade-off for

:37:35. > :37:40.better facilities and reducing waiting times at A Road but that

:37:41. > :37:43.means waiting longer for operations. Katz said, cancellation of my

:37:44. > :37:49.aneurysm operation twice, I turned up and waited for seven hours and

:37:50. > :37:52.then it was cancelled, my family had taken time off work to look after

:37:53. > :37:58.me, I'm 88. Mark says, I've been waiting for a

:37:59. > :38:03.follow-up appointment with a specialist since April 2016, it has

:38:04. > :38:06.been put back to April 2018 committee-macro years.

:38:07. > :38:10.This one says, my dad have been waiting for a second hip operation

:38:11. > :38:15.the six years, NHS staff do a fabulous job on the ground but this

:38:16. > :38:19.needs sorting out. Ahead of next month's French

:38:20. > :38:20.presidential elections, the Front National has been

:38:21. > :38:22.attracting increasing It's the country's main far-right

:38:23. > :38:25.party, led by Marine Le Pen, who's been a divisive figure

:38:26. > :38:28.in French politics for many years. James Reevell has been spending time

:38:29. > :38:31.in northern France with young activists in order to gain

:38:32. > :38:33.an insight into why they're drawn The contributors in this film

:38:34. > :38:37.express some frank views Front National are

:38:38. > :39:14.France's increasingly They have big hopes of winning next

:39:15. > :39:19.month's presidential election. More and more they are

:39:20. > :39:25.attracting young people, too. We spent a week in northern France

:39:26. > :39:28.with those fighting for the FN, We've been invited out

:39:29. > :39:35.on a protest with the FN's They're supporting the presidential

:39:36. > :40:18.candidate Marine le Pen. Hi, I'm Christophe,

:40:19. > :40:38.I'm 26, and I'm the head Christophe is part of the new

:40:39. > :40:43.generation of activists all believing that the FN's future is

:40:44. > :40:47.now mainstream. Over the last few years, the FN has rebranded itself.

:40:48. > :40:53.They say they are not fascist or racist but realists, they claim the

:40:54. > :40:54.fight is for everyone now. Christophe has taken to a school to

:40:55. > :42:10.spread the message. Hello, I'm Camille, and 22 years

:42:11. > :42:15.old, I'm a law student and I joined Front National more than two years

:42:16. > :42:17.ago. Camille is one of the FN's rising stars, collected as head of

:42:18. > :42:53.the area's youth division. Camille is off to show the area

:42:54. > :42:55.around university, it is diverse, raw, and to her it symbolises what

:42:56. > :43:21.is broken in France. But beyond this, what seems to

:43:22. > :43:24.really resonate with Camille is the FN's widely discredited claim that

:43:25. > :44:10.migrants get a better deal than white French people.

:44:11. > :44:23.Say hello to a group of extreme far right activists. They like Front

:44:24. > :44:27.National but think they are soft on Muslims. Their speciality is making

:44:28. > :44:28.slick videos as they stormed public buildings and display provocative

:44:29. > :44:56.banners. The citadel is basically an old

:44:57. > :45:00.right white Power members cup. It opened in September. -- members

:45:01. > :45:31.club. I just cracked on with

:45:32. > :45:41.what I had to do. Orioli and is short on details of

:45:42. > :45:43.his system. But it seems to boil down to getting Muslims to leave

:45:44. > :46:00.France voluntarily. When you speak to them about the

:46:01. > :46:04.election, you can feel the excitement. They clearly believe

:46:05. > :46:27.that the FN and Marine Le Pen is their big chance.

:46:28. > :46:34.Everyone I had spoken to so far had accused immigrants, and specifically

:46:35. > :46:39.Muslims, of failing to integrate or to really embrace being French. I

:46:40. > :46:44.decided to head to feel's largest Muslim neighbourhood. I wanted to

:46:45. > :46:50.find out what it felt like to be told you do not belong. I am Marian,

:46:51. > :46:55.I'm 25 years old, I am Muslim and I think France is becoming a racist

:46:56. > :47:00.country. Marian was born to immigrant parents

:47:01. > :47:04.in France. She is educated, works for a charity supports the French

:47:05. > :47:10.national football team. We don't have to hide. French is the biggest

:47:11. > :47:14.racist country in Europe -- Francis. They are making many laws against

:47:15. > :47:21.the hijab, mainly against the Muslims. It is racist. The Front

:47:22. > :47:29.National is an extreme party, racist. I don't have words. It is a

:47:30. > :47:35.racist party who thinks that France belongs to the white, but it is not.

:47:36. > :47:41.We used to just be friends, no matter our religion, but now the

:47:42. > :47:43.first question, for example when we choose friends is what is your

:47:44. > :48:02.nationality? Are you French? Face hello, I am William, I am 25

:48:03. > :48:08.years old. I think the Government have forgotten the people. William

:48:09. > :48:13.is a recent convert to the FN, joining two years ago. A pharmacist,

:48:14. > :48:17.he has swiftly risen through the ranks and is the back-up candidate

:48:18. > :48:21.for his area, a rule and industrial place where the party has always

:48:22. > :48:28.done well. Migration is one key issue, despite the area being

:48:29. > :48:31.largely white. We could be killed right now, it is a remote

:48:32. > :48:36.possibility that it could happen. That is horrible. I don't want to

:48:37. > :48:40.live in fear, I want everyone to be happy. Muslims, Christians,

:48:41. > :48:44.whatever, I don't care. What has become clear after meeting

:48:45. > :48:50.the FN is that their appeal is not just about Islamophobia or racism,

:48:51. > :48:55.it is about loss of jobs, identity and hope. William wants to show me

:48:56. > :49:01.his hometown, unemployment runs Haider and there is little positive

:49:02. > :49:08.about the future. -- unemployment runs high. We are going to the

:49:09. > :49:13.village where I live, it is a village of 1500 people. It is a

:49:14. > :49:21.small village, as you can see, it used to be a place where lots of

:49:22. > :49:27.people left, they were working in the textile industry.

:49:28. > :49:31.This place is a former factory of textiles, textile factory. Long ago

:49:32. > :49:36.they used to be lots of people were working here. You would have come...

:49:37. > :49:39.I was not born, you would have come 40 years ago, there would have been

:49:40. > :49:46.a lot of people right here in the city. Look now, it looks like it is

:49:47. > :49:53.a dead place. That is sad. The village is dying. I really think

:49:54. > :49:59.that what I'm doing is good for me, it is good for my family and friends

:50:00. > :50:06.and the people of France. I do it for a better future. What happens if

:50:07. > :50:11.that future does not come? Well... I think that politicians, most of them

:50:12. > :50:16.are here to give us hope. Because I think without hope we would be

:50:17. > :50:23.drowning in sorrow. We need hope, the human mind needs hope. To think

:50:24. > :50:34.of a good future, a brighter future. NHS bosses warn of delays to routine

:50:35. > :50:46.operations in England - We could see improvements in other

:50:47. > :50:49.areas like Cancer care is waiting times for A We will get the

:50:50. > :50:51.reaction from patients and doctors. Workers on the Government's National

:50:52. > :50:54.Living Wage will see their pay go up Over two million people currently

:50:55. > :50:58.receive the National Living Wage. At the moment, if you're over 24

:50:59. > :51:02.years old, you get ?7.20 an hour. From tomorrow, that will go

:51:03. > :51:06.up to ?7.50 an hour. The National Minimum Wage will also

:51:07. > :51:09.increase for those under 24 and it could boost the earnings

:51:10. > :51:11.of a typical full-time worker by ?600 a year,

:51:12. > :51:21.which some low paid workers say With us now are Catherine Chapman,

:51:22. > :51:28.director of the Living Wage Foundation, Sarah Steel,

:51:29. > :51:30.director of a small business and Solomon Smith, a youth worker

:51:31. > :51:38.on the National Living Wage. Solomon, just explain the difference

:51:39. > :51:45.this increase will make. It is 30p an hour, will it be significant? It

:51:46. > :51:51.is 30p and hour, you know? At least there is a bit of a change. But

:51:52. > :51:56.there still needs to be more. Even though a lot of people will be like,

:51:57. > :52:03.you know, the money has gone up, it will not really go up as people

:52:04. > :52:09.think it is. You have children, explained the struggle? I have two

:52:10. > :52:16.kids, once payday comes it comes and goes straightaway. How do you get

:52:17. > :52:21.by? Just learning what to pay for, you know? I pay my rent, I pay my

:52:22. > :52:30.school fees. I have been living on the red Koran two years. I want to

:52:31. > :52:38.bring in Sarah, she is an employer. Is this 30p an extra -- extra per

:52:39. > :52:42.hour challenging? It hurts some sectors really hard. We would not

:52:43. > :52:46.doubt that our stuff the King Arthur and educating young children deserve

:52:47. > :52:50.a higher wage. There are two issues, one is about keeping the

:52:51. > :52:53.differential, although we will be moving everybody up to meet the

:52:54. > :52:58.living way, it is important that people who have done more

:52:59. > :53:02.qualifications, we can keep the pay differential between the unqualified

:53:03. > :53:07.and well-qualified. For nurseries, lots of income comes from Government

:53:08. > :53:09.funding for three and four-year-olds, the Government

:53:10. > :53:14.effectively price fixes that, local authorities tell us what they will

:53:15. > :53:18.pay, they will not pay what it costs us. So when the living wage goes up,

:53:19. > :53:23.in order to pay staff more we have to pass on the Costa parents because

:53:24. > :53:29.government will not pay a so the fees go up. That has a knock-on

:53:30. > :53:34.effect. And it will not help people like Solomon... It ends up not worth

:53:35. > :53:38.going to work, it is a complicated system. You are at the other

:53:39. > :53:43.rendered you need the money but it is challenging for employers?

:53:44. > :53:47.Definitely, I have lots of friends who own businesses. I spoke to a

:53:48. > :53:55.friend yesterday and said this is going to absolutely kill my pocket

:53:56. > :54:00.-- and he said. Even though people want more money, the umpires had to

:54:01. > :54:05.pay more. It is a knock-on effect on both sides. -- the employers had to

:54:06. > :54:13.pay more. This is what you have campaigned for, you want a national

:54:14. > :54:18.Living Wage that is sensible. 30p an hour, it is enough of an increase?

:54:19. > :54:22.It is great that there is an increase, it will benefit low paid

:54:23. > :54:27.workers, but for millions of low paid and please the increase is not

:54:28. > :54:31.enough. We calculate a real living way completely separate to this

:54:32. > :54:38.minimum wage, based on what it actually costs to live, that is

:54:39. > :54:45.currently ?8.45 an hour in the UK and ?9.75 an hour in London. That is

:54:46. > :54:50.different to ?7.50, the difference of about ?45 a week in the UK and

:54:51. > :54:56.?95 in London, which makes a huge difference to those on low incomes.

:54:57. > :55:00.We already work with thousands of businesses who are choosing to go

:55:01. > :55:04.forward than the Government minimum wage, this is to the absolute legal

:55:05. > :55:08.floor, you are not breaking the law with this increase. We have

:55:09. > :55:11.employers choosing to go further because they want to make sure that

:55:12. > :55:16.everyone working for them has enough to live on. We have heard it is a

:55:17. > :55:21.challenge and nurseries so how can some businesses say they will pay

:55:22. > :55:25.more? We are increasingly hearing about some of the business benefits

:55:26. > :55:30.of paying better wages, some research tomorrow has fantastic

:55:31. > :55:33.statistics. When people are working for an employer that pays them well

:55:34. > :55:40.and they feel valued, motivation goes up, staff retention rates

:55:41. > :55:43.improve, absenteeism and sickness rates go down, real business

:55:44. > :55:48.benefits as well as being good for stuff, so it can be a win-win for

:55:49. > :55:54.business and society. -- being good for staff. We have seen real

:55:55. > :55:58.movements recently in low paid industry. A few years ago people

:55:59. > :56:03.thought paying the living weight would be really difficult on retail,

:56:04. > :56:09.for example. IKEA had signed up, we have added around 3000 of their

:56:10. > :56:15.co-workers. There is scope for further growth and to pay these

:56:16. > :56:20.higher wages. That is not realistic in your business, Sarah? I would say

:56:21. > :56:24.lots of nurseries already pay... We pay lots of our staff more than the

:56:25. > :56:29.living way. In order to push everybody up and keep those pay

:56:30. > :56:34.differentials, in some areas it is not realistic, in some areas it is.

:56:35. > :56:39.Maybe in nurseries and health care, social care, it is very difficult.

:56:40. > :56:44.For as it is about getting fair funding from the Government, that

:56:45. > :56:47.would make the difference. I agree about the benefits of treating your

:56:48. > :56:52.staff well and wanting them to stay with you. In nurseries, early years,

:56:53. > :56:57.retention of good stuff is a real issue. We pay better, we get better

:56:58. > :57:01.people and they want to stay with us, but it is very hard trying to

:57:02. > :57:05.put that as a blanket across everybody. One size will not fit

:57:06. > :57:11.all. What difference would ?9.45 an hour

:57:12. > :57:21.make to your lifestyle? Are to be absolutely fantastic. Despite me

:57:22. > :57:24.having a degree and a Masters, I never think about degree and Masters

:57:25. > :57:28.wages, I just think about real wages. Can it pay my rent? Just so I

:57:29. > :57:34.can just look into my bank account and I am not in the red. That will

:57:35. > :57:42.be mind blowing. Doing everything I am doing and still feeling like

:57:43. > :57:47.where I am now is absolutely not a good feeling. Sometimes I might go

:57:48. > :57:52.to work and I am just like... You know? Where is the motivation? One

:57:53. > :57:57.of the main things is about motivating staff. I run a homeless

:57:58. > :58:01.organisation and we are strictly on all volunteers. Because I know I

:58:02. > :58:05.can't pay my staff I will do other things, even if it is benefits like

:58:06. > :58:11.the cinema, doing little things like that, you start to see how your

:58:12. > :58:16.staff treat you. Imagine if I could start paying them, you know? It is

:58:17. > :58:20.good for me who experiences this knowing that this is what I would

:58:21. > :58:32.not want for my stuff. But presumably it is dreamland to pay ?9

:58:33. > :58:37.45? That is the London living wage. But Solomon lives in London.

:58:38. > :58:41.Absolutely. We have seen real growth in London living wage and players.

:58:42. > :58:44.Thousands of those small businesses, small independent firms choosing to

:58:45. > :58:48.pay the higher rate. They want to make sure that people work for them,

:58:49. > :58:52.not having to worry about these challenges you just mentioned. They

:58:53. > :58:55.have the time to devote to the job, nothing to worry about paying the

:58:56. > :59:01.bills all the school uniform at the start of term. It is great to see an

:59:02. > :59:04.increase in the minimum wage, but there is further to go.

:59:05. > :59:07.I am sure it is a conversation that lots of people will get in touch

:59:08. > :59:11.about. Matthew Taylor has the weather.

:59:12. > :59:23.A grey, damp start boss. The rain is soon to depart. It will rain for

:59:24. > :59:26.much of the day in Scotland, showers will arrive later in Northern

:59:27. > :59:30.Ireland, West Wales and Cornwall. Not as warm as the 22 Celsius saw

:59:31. > :59:35.yesterday but pleasant enough for this stage in March. Showers

:59:36. > :59:39.tonight, mainly in the West. Eastern areas will be dry, fairly clear and

:59:40. > :59:43.cooler than recently. Temperatures into the start of the weekend into

:59:44. > :59:46.single figures. A slightly fresh start than over the past few

:59:47. > :59:50.moorings. Morning sunshine for quite a few of view but showers in the

:59:51. > :59:57.West initially will develop more widely through the day, lighter

:59:58. > :00:00.winds so slow-moving, could be heavy inventory, particularly across parts

:00:01. > :00:03.of England and Wales. Between the showers we will see sunshine, in

:00:04. > :00:06.that sunshine temperatures still in the mid to high teens at the very,

:00:07. > :00:10.very best. Cooler through Saturday into Sunday,

:00:11. > :00:14.a chilly start to the second half of the weekend, but much, much drier,

:00:15. > :00:22.showers few and far between, most with sunshine.

:00:23. > :00:35.The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk,

:00:36. > :00:37.rejects Theresa May's request for Brexit negotiations to run side

:00:38. > :00:40.by side with talks on the UK's future relationship with the bloc.

:00:41. > :00:45.Starting parallel talks on all issues at the same time, as

:00:46. > :00:50.suggested by some in the UK, will not happen.

:00:51. > :00:51.We will get the Government's reaction and be live in Malta for

:00:52. > :00:53.the fallout there. A longer wait for routine

:00:54. > :00:56.operations in England. NHS bosses say it's a "trade off"

:00:57. > :01:08.for improvements in other areas. We will get the views of

:01:09. > :01:10.professionals and those on the waiting list in the next hour.

:01:11. > :01:12.And the schoolgirl code breakers taking the cyber

:01:13. > :01:16.Find out why they're poised to become the next James Bonds

:01:17. > :01:36.The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has been

:01:37. > :01:39.outlining how the EU intends to carry out Brexit negotiations.

:01:40. > :01:43.Speaking in Malta he warned the talks would be complex and sometimes

:01:44. > :01:47.confrontational, and he said negotiations on future trade

:01:48. > :01:51.relations can only began after sufficient progress has been made on

:01:52. > :01:52.disentangling Britain from the obligations of its 44 year

:01:53. > :02:01.membership of the EU. Only once we have achieved

:02:02. > :02:04.sufficient progress on the withdrawal can we discuss the

:02:05. > :02:08.framework of our future relationship. Starting parallel

:02:09. > :02:16.talks on all issues at the same time, as suggested by some in the

:02:17. > :02:21.UK, will not happen. And when talking about our future

:02:22. > :02:28.relationship, we obviously shared the UK's desire to establish a close

:02:29. > :02:33.partnership with Europe. Strong ties reaching beyond the economy and

:02:34. > :02:41.including security cooperation remain in our common interest. Let

:02:42. > :02:45.me conclude by saying that the talks which are about to start will be

:02:46. > :02:53.difficult, complex, and sometimes even confrontational. There is no

:02:54. > :02:54.way around it. The EU 27 does not and will not pursue a punitive

:02:55. > :02:57.approach. Waiting times will be longer

:02:58. > :03:00.for routine operations, such as hip and knee replacements,

:03:01. > :03:03.as a trade-off for improvements in A performance and better

:03:04. > :03:10.treatment in other areas. That's according to the Head of NHS

:03:11. > :03:14.England, Simon Stevens, who is unveiling a strategy

:03:15. > :03:17.for the NHS over the next two years. He says increasing patient demand

:03:18. > :03:20.and the growth in new treatments MPs say it's unacceptable that

:03:21. > :03:24.residents who pay their own fees at care homes in England are charged

:03:25. > :03:27.on average 43% more than those The Communities and Local Government

:03:28. > :03:33.Committee blames a lack of funding, which it says is threatening

:03:34. > :03:35.the viability of adult The Government says it's already

:03:36. > :03:44.given councils an extra ?2 billion. Hotels, restaurants and tourist

:03:45. > :03:46.attractions have warned ministers of the possible consequences

:03:47. > :03:47.of restricting the movement The British Hospitality Association

:03:48. > :03:53.predicts a shortfall of 60,000 workers a year if immigration

:03:54. > :03:59.is limited from the EU. The Government says it will design

:04:00. > :04:01.a new immigration system That's a summary of the latest BBC

:04:02. > :04:14.News - more at 10:30am. Lots of you getting in touch with us

:04:15. > :04:20.this morning about routine operations being delayed, cancelled.

:04:21. > :04:23.An e-mail, I was the victim of a hit-and-run accident in January,

:04:24. > :04:27.left with a double fracture of the collarbone and four broken ribs. The

:04:28. > :04:30.hospital sent be home the same day and told me to come back the next

:04:31. > :04:34.day to see if a bed was free, there was still no bed the next day.

:04:35. > :04:37.An anonymous text, my son has been waiting for an operation at

:04:38. > :04:41.Birmingham Children's Hospital for two years, he was ready for the

:04:42. > :04:54.operation this week only to be told it was cancelled less

:04:55. > :04:58.than 24 hours before it was due to start because they had no sterile

:04:59. > :05:00.equipment to use in his operation. Keep those coming in, your

:05:01. > :05:01.experiences of routine operations being delayed, we will talk more

:05:02. > :05:03.about that in the next few minutes. If you text, you will be charged

:05:04. > :05:07.at the standard network rate. What a couple of seasons it's been

:05:08. > :05:11.for Manchester City Women. They did the league and cup double

:05:12. > :05:13.last year, now they're through to the semifinals

:05:14. > :05:15.of the Champions League Lucy Bronze headed home

:05:16. > :05:19.the only goal of the match against Fortuna Hjerring,

:05:20. > :05:21.to give them a 2-0 aggregate win Next up City face the

:05:22. > :05:24.reigning champions Lyon. And their captain Steph Horton

:05:25. > :05:35.is excited by the challenge. We don't stop here, we're excited to

:05:36. > :05:38.be involved in the semifinal, we know that Leon are a very

:05:39. > :05:42.experienced team and they have a team full of world-class

:05:43. > :05:43.individuals, but so have weak, and it's going to be an exciting game

:05:44. > :05:45.for sure. A shocking claim from Stoke City

:05:46. > :05:48.striker Saido Berahino. He served an eight week doping ban

:05:49. > :05:51.earlier this season whilst at his former club West Brom,

:05:52. > :05:54.but he says it was because his drink Berahino insists that there was such

:05:55. > :05:59.a small amount in his system, it proves he couldn't have taken

:06:00. > :06:11.the drug intentionally. For me to get banned for something

:06:12. > :06:14.that I really haven't Because if I was going to get high,

:06:15. > :06:20.like talking about whether you wanted to get high,

:06:21. > :06:22.maybe the numbers would have came higher,

:06:23. > :06:25.if it was found in my system. But it was really, really low,

:06:26. > :06:28.so why would you want to take But because I'm in the Premier

:06:29. > :06:34.League, the FA have And you can watch the the full

:06:35. > :06:53.interview on Football Focus clubs feel aggrieved at the lack of

:06:54. > :06:56.recognition for their community work according to Richard Scudamore. He

:06:57. > :07:00.was speaking at the launch of an event to provide resources to

:07:01. > :07:04.thousands of primary schools. We have a power that motivates

:07:05. > :07:07.people, motivate young people particularly, and therefore because

:07:08. > :07:11.we can, we should, and that is what it is about and why we are doing it.

:07:12. > :07:14.The campaign above the line is to make sure schools engage and begged

:07:15. > :07:17.the programme a success, and hopefully hearts and minds will

:07:18. > :07:20.alter in terms of some of the perceptions towards some of the

:07:21. > :07:20.things the Premier League stands for.

:07:21. > :07:27.Tennis now. Joanna Konta continues to impress -

:07:28. > :07:30.she's become the first British woman Konta beat Venus Williams

:07:31. > :07:34.and will now play Caroline Amazing to think Konta was just six

:07:35. > :07:38.years old when Williams first won Konta has said Venus is one

:07:39. > :07:42.of her all time heroes, but dispatched her opponent

:07:43. > :07:52.in straight sets. I'm very happy to have come through

:07:53. > :07:56.that, I wasn't able to serve it out the first time but the second time

:07:57. > :07:59.around I was able to, so I think, yes, relief and obviously excitement

:08:00. > :08:01.that I get to be part of the last day of the tournament.

:08:02. > :08:08.England's Charley Hull is in contention at the first

:08:09. > :08:10.women's major of the year, the ANA Inspiration in California.

:08:11. > :08:18.But the woman grabbing the headlines is this golfer,

:08:19. > :08:19.South Korean amateur Seong Eun-jeong.

:08:20. > :08:24.And she made a hole-in-one at the fifth.

:08:25. > :08:32.What about that? She is only 17, look at her reaction. Brilliant,

:08:33. > :08:35.fabulous to see that from her. That is all the sport by now, I will be

:08:36. > :08:40.back with a headline that about 10:30am.

:08:41. > :08:48.Talks between the EU and UK on Brexit will be difficult and

:08:49. > :08:57.sometimes confrontational according to the president of the European

:08:58. > :09:01.Council, Donald Tusk. He has said there is no desire to punish Britain

:09:02. > :09:03.and has said that parallel negotiations can only begin once

:09:04. > :09:09.sufficient progress is made in the divorce proceedings.

:09:10. > :09:13.Citizens from all over the EU live, work and study in the UK, and as

:09:14. > :09:17.long as the UK remains a member, their rights are fully protected.

:09:18. > :09:20.But we need to settle the status and situation

:09:21. > :09:21.after the withdrawal with reciprocal, enforceable,

:09:22. > :09:33.Second, we must prevent a legal vacuum for our companies that

:09:34. > :09:36.stems from the fact that, after Brexit, EU laws will no

:09:37. > :09:42.Third, we will also need to make sure that the UK honours

:09:43. > :09:44.all financial commitments and liabilities it has

:09:45. > :09:57.It is only fair towards all those people, communities,

:09:58. > :09:59.scientists, farmers and so on, to whom we, all the 28,

:10:00. > :10:15.I can guarantee that the EU, on our part, will honour

:10:16. > :10:25.Fourth, we will seek flexible and creative solutions aiming

:10:26. > :10:27.at avoiding a hard border between Northern

:10:28. > :10:31.It is of crucial importance to support the peace process

:10:32. > :10:43.These four issues are all part of the first phase of our negotiation.

:10:44. > :10:48.Once and only once we have achieved sufficient progress of the four can

:10:49. > :10:57.we discuss the framework of our future relationship.

:10:58. > :11:00.Starting parallel talks on all issues at the same time,

:11:01. > :11:04.as suggested by some in the UK, will not happen.

:11:05. > :11:06.And, when talking about our future relationship, we obviously share

:11:07. > :11:15.the UK's desire to establish a close partnership between us.

:11:16. > :11:17.Strong ties reaching beyond the economy and including

:11:18. > :11:30.security cooperation remain in our common interest.

:11:31. > :11:34.Our political correspondent Iain Watson is in Westminster.

:11:35. > :11:42.Is this a rebuff to Theresa May? The language from Donald Tusk is

:11:43. > :11:47.firm, rather than anything else, but we heard from him saying, look, at

:11:48. > :11:51.times the talks would be confrontational. When it comes to a

:11:52. > :11:55.rebirth, remember this, this is what Theresa May asked of the European

:11:56. > :11:59.Union Council, of which Donald Tusk is president, with the letter

:12:00. > :12:02.triggering Article 50. She said, we believe it is necessary to agree the

:12:03. > :12:09.terms of a future partnership alongside those of our withdrawal

:12:10. > :12:13.from the EU. Today, Donald Tusk has said, almost in terms, no chance,

:12:14. > :12:17.there will be no parallel negotiations. He said the first

:12:18. > :12:21.phase would be the untangling of the relationship with the rest of the

:12:22. > :12:24.EU, and only then would move onto a second phase, which would be looking

:12:25. > :12:28.at the future relationship with trade and so on. But the people who

:12:29. > :12:32.will decide whether that second phase will be triggered will be the

:12:33. > :12:36.European Council themselves, not some independent body, not the UK,

:12:37. > :12:44.but the European Council. No final trade deal will be until Britain has

:12:45. > :12:47.left the European Union, and in addition to that, if there is any

:12:48. > :12:51.transitional arrangement, Britain would have to accept a supervisory

:12:52. > :12:56.role as they do currently as a member, these are not things that

:12:57. > :13:00.Theresa May is in favour of, she wants to leave the European Court of

:13:01. > :13:03.Justice and what's negotiations to run in parallel, and Donald Tusk is

:13:04. > :13:07.very clear that will not happen. In the last few minutes we had Downing

:13:08. > :13:10.Street's reaction, a statement following that press conference by

:13:11. > :13:15.Donald Tusk and following the publication of the draft guidelines.

:13:16. > :13:19.In it they say, effectively stressing these are draft

:13:20. > :13:22.guidelines, we look forward to beginning negotiations once they are

:13:23. > :13:26.formally agreed by the 27 remaining members of the European Union.

:13:27. > :13:30.Downing Street goes on to say, it is clear both sides which to approach

:13:31. > :13:33.the talks constructively and as the Prime Minister said this week we

:13:34. > :13:37.wish to ensure a deep and special partnership between the UK and

:13:38. > :13:41.European union, so Downing Street doing nothing at this stage to fan

:13:42. > :13:46.the flames. They say, in effect, this is a negotiation, this is the

:13:47. > :13:49.opening salvo but we hope to move onto more constructive talks later.

:13:50. > :13:54.To be further, there is some constructive progress, both sides

:13:55. > :13:57.clearly want to sort out the status and rights of EU citizens, they

:13:58. > :14:01.recognise the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of

:14:02. > :14:04.Ireland require special attention, but that the issue, can you have

:14:05. > :14:09.talks on trade going alongside if you like the divorce settlement, the

:14:10. > :14:13.bill we have to pay to leave the European Union, they are in two

:14:14. > :14:16.different places, Theresa May want it to happen together, Donald Tusk

:14:17. > :14:18.and the European Council clear today that they do not. Ian, thank you.

:14:19. > :14:22.Our correspondent Chris Morris is in Malta.

:14:23. > :14:29.You were in the press conference with Donald Tusk, we saw you asking

:14:30. > :14:35.a question there. The tough talk has really started now, hasn't it?

:14:36. > :14:39.Yes, it has. Cast your mind back two days, when Donald Tusk appeared in

:14:40. > :14:43.Brussels with Theresa May's letter, he sounded emotional, genuinely

:14:44. > :14:47.upset. Today it about all about business, this is our response and

:14:48. > :14:52.it will be tough. Clear indication from this press conference, the big

:14:53. > :14:56.thought is that the EU now believes it is in control of the process. For

:14:57. > :15:01.nine months, since the referendum, Theresa May had the timing in her

:15:02. > :15:05.hands, it was her decision went to trigger Article 50. Now that it has

:15:06. > :15:09.been done, it is the EU which says, we are going to set the tone, we

:15:10. > :15:12.will spend another month debating the draft guidelines then have the

:15:13. > :15:24.summit of the 27 leaders to approve them, possibly slightly amended,

:15:25. > :15:26.then they have to be turned into a form of the associated directive,

:15:27. > :15:29.and only then will negotiations start, and they have to start on our

:15:30. > :15:31.terms. The UK could say, we don't accept that, but if the other 27

:15:32. > :15:33.countries are united in sailing, divorce and separation first then

:15:34. > :15:37.when sufficient progress is made, and they will judge what that means,

:15:38. > :15:40.then we talk about the future, and only when we have made progress on

:15:41. > :15:45.that will we talk about transition from one to the other. That is the

:15:46. > :15:50.EU saying, this is our process, our treaty that the process is being

:15:51. > :15:55.done under, and we are considering things in a cooperative way, very

:15:56. > :15:58.polite and constructive, as a third country with which we are

:15:59. > :16:01.negotiating -- we are considering you in a cooperative way.

:16:02. > :16:04.The woman who found out she was autisic at 45.

:16:05. > :16:06.Find out how the diagnosis changed her life and what's

:16:07. > :16:09.she's doing now to deal with her condition.

:16:10. > :16:14.Waiting up to 18 weeks for surgery, often in pain,

:16:15. > :16:18.But now NHS patients in England are being warned they may have

:16:19. > :16:21.to wait longer for routine operations such as hip and knee

:16:22. > :16:23.replacements, cataract removal, hernia operations and laparoscopies.

:16:24. > :16:26.Speaking to Today on Radio Four, Simon Stevens, the head of NHS

:16:27. > :16:32.England, says it is a "trade off" for improvements in other areas,

:16:33. > :16:35.such as the four hour A target and better cancer care.

:16:36. > :16:37.He says increasing patient demand and the growth in new treatments

:16:38. > :16:42.mean that radical choices have to be made.

:16:43. > :16:45.The NHS has made huge strides over the course of the last ten or 15

:16:46. > :16:48.years in cutting long waits for operations, and we are

:16:49. > :16:54.So people, I think, would be surprised to remember that,

:16:55. > :16:57.15 years ago, you might be waiting 18 months for your hip

:16:58. > :17:02.or your knee operation, now nine out of ten people it is 18

:17:03. > :17:06.weeks, the average wait for an operation is ten weeks.

:17:07. > :17:09.What we're saying is that, over the next couple of years,

:17:10. > :17:13.we want to have more funded operations on the NHS,

:17:14. > :17:16.but we recognise that the rate of growth is probably going to have

:17:17. > :17:19.to be a little bit slower than it has been at points in the past,

:17:20. > :17:22.because we also want to make big improvements in cancer care,

:17:23. > :17:29.in GP services, and in mental Health Services as well.

:17:30. > :17:32.But you will know that Claire Marks of the Royal College of Surgeons has

:17:33. > :17:39.said that there is a risk that you will have unacceptably long

:17:40. > :17:42.waits, a return to that, and suggesting that the 18 week

:17:43. > :17:43.target has now effectively been jettisoned.

:17:44. > :17:46.The reality is that there are pressures right

:17:47. > :17:48.across the health service, they are well known,

:17:49. > :17:54.and under those circumstances we have to make a start on sorting

:17:55. > :17:57.out particularly those pressures in A departments which we've seen

:17:58. > :18:01.It's right that we start with the most urgent

:18:02. > :18:04.and pressing problems, but then over the course of the next

:18:05. > :18:07.several years we want to be able to expand or continue to expand

:18:08. > :18:14.the amount of surgery that's being done so that waiting times

:18:15. > :18:19.The fact is that we are already looking

:18:20. > :18:21.after, providing 5000 more operations a day now

:18:22. > :18:23.than we were in 2010, and we've got one of the lowest

:18:24. > :18:25.waiting times for routine nonurgent operations of any

:18:26. > :18:30.Under the current NHS guidelines, 92% of patients with non-urgent

:18:31. > :18:32.conditions should be treated within 18 weeks of

:18:33. > :18:38.The maximum waiting time for suspected cancer is two

:18:39. > :18:45.If a hospital or service cancels your appointment at the last minute,

:18:46. > :18:56.they should offer another date within 28 days.

:18:57. > :19:03.WE were hoping to speak to Hugh Pym, who is not with us now. We can speak

:19:04. > :19:09.to Christine Moon, she is on an NHS waiting list for a single coronary

:19:10. > :19:15.bypass. And we can speak to Tim Briggs, an orthopaedic surgeon and

:19:16. > :19:21.the NHS National clinical director for efficiency and quality.

:19:22. > :19:27.Christine, what is your situation? I saw my cardiac surgeon last

:19:28. > :19:31.November. I was told 18 weeks. At the end of the 18 week period I

:19:32. > :19:38.phoned the hospital to try to find out when I might be admitted and was

:19:39. > :19:42.told they could give me no idea at all, they were completely

:19:43. > :19:45.backlogged, people in critical care beds were blocking beds and I was

:19:46. > :19:51.told nobody in the hospital could give me any idea when my operation

:19:52. > :20:01.was likely to take place. So you just sit and wait for the hospital

:20:02. > :20:05.to give you a date? I have decided to go privately because I just

:20:06. > :20:10.cannot carry on my life waiting for this to happen. It is like having a

:20:11. > :20:14.sword hanging over my head. Are you feeling unwell or is it the simple

:20:15. > :20:21.logistics of feeling like you are in limbo? It is feeling I am in limbo,

:20:22. > :20:25.I am taking six tablets a day to alleviate my systems. I guess lots

:20:26. > :20:30.of people are in much worse position than I am, they have probably been

:20:31. > :20:38.waiting longer than me. 18 weeks means absolutely nothing. I want to

:20:39. > :20:43.bring in Tim Briggs, you are a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. I

:20:44. > :20:47.guess many of your patients are the very people who might be affected by

:20:48. > :20:51.this announcement today? If you look at what the NHS has done in the last

:20:52. > :20:56.50 years to bring down waiting times to the historical lows of the

:20:57. > :21:01.moment, it has been an amazing job by many people. If you look at the

:21:02. > :21:06.National joint Registry founded in 2003, when there were 47,000 joint

:21:07. > :21:12.replacements registered in one year, last year it was over 200,000, it

:21:13. > :21:16.shows you the rising demand, and with the ageing population and the

:21:17. > :21:19.demands on the health service. I think the health service should be

:21:20. > :21:23.congratulated on the actual work it has done in the last few years to

:21:24. > :21:31.bring the waiting times down to the historical lows that we see now, and

:21:32. > :21:36.patients, in terms of quality, timing of the operation is not the

:21:37. > :21:40.only aspiration. It is also getting the best quality outcome. It is a

:21:41. > :21:45.mixture of the two components that produces the best result for

:21:46. > :21:49.patients. That does not help the likes of Christine, she is pulling

:21:50. > :21:54.faces and shaking her head, clearly disagreeing with what you are

:21:55. > :21:58.saying. Lots of people have got into it talking about the delays they are

:21:59. > :22:02.facing already, this will get worse. For people in pain it is no comfort

:22:03. > :22:08.at all. We had to look at what is happening

:22:09. > :22:11.at the moment in the accident and emergency departments, they are

:22:12. > :22:15.under huge pressure. More patients are being admitted to hospitals,

:22:16. > :22:19.delayed transfers of care which I hope has been resolved with the

:22:20. > :22:23.Chancellor's announcement in the budget of the ?2 billion. This means

:22:24. > :22:29.there has been a lot of pressure on beds. If we are going to provide a

:22:30. > :22:33.sustainable health service going forward, to provide excellent,

:22:34. > :22:37.timely care for patients, we have to free up those beds, and we do that

:22:38. > :22:41.by increasing the discharge rates of patients from hospital which has

:22:42. > :22:45.been announced in the Budget with increased funding of ?2 billion for

:22:46. > :22:50.social care, but we also have to sort out the front end of the

:22:51. > :22:56.hospital A departments, reducing the number of patients coming to

:22:57. > :23:00.hospital, to A, the number of patients admitted, sometimes not

:23:01. > :23:04.necessarily. And we have to resolve that to have the bed capacity to

:23:05. > :23:10.provide elective care for the patients. I welcome the report in

:23:11. > :23:14.many ways, I'm an orthopaedic surgeon at the front line, I treat

:23:15. > :23:18.patients, I think patients will understand that we had to try to

:23:19. > :23:23.sort out the system so we can maintain the frequency at which we

:23:24. > :23:28.can deliver the 18 week target for patients, I don't believe it is

:23:29. > :23:32.being jettisoned, actually. What we are trying to do is sort out the

:23:33. > :23:37.system to maintain it as we go forward. Professor Briggs, I would

:23:38. > :23:43.def Chris Dean understands. You say most patients will understand this,

:23:44. > :23:49.Christine, feel free to speak to Tim Briggs. -- Professor Briggs, I

:23:50. > :23:52.wonder if Christine understands. I don't understand, you say you are

:23:53. > :23:57.trying to sort out problems and A, in the area where I live I

:23:58. > :24:02.understand that A is under immense pressure. There is a walk-in unit

:24:03. > :24:06.being established in Corby which I read with absolute horror is now due

:24:07. > :24:14.to close due to lack of NHS spending. Why? To respond to that, I

:24:15. > :24:19.have been in the privileged position in the last two years of visiting

:24:20. > :24:23.every single hospital in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern

:24:24. > :24:26.Ireland, overall the pressure on A departments is huge, they have had

:24:27. > :24:30.huge pressure over the winter months, as we all know. We had to

:24:31. > :24:34.try to resolve that, because the more patients coming through the

:24:35. > :24:38.front door and getting admitted to hospital with delays of transfer

:24:39. > :24:45.means there are not the beds available to do the collective

:24:46. > :24:50.planned surgery. Over the next 24, 36 months, we need to try to resolve

:24:51. > :24:54.that issue. Simon Stevens said today that no one is jettisoning the 18

:24:55. > :24:58.week targets, we want that to be the norm for patients, but we have to

:24:59. > :25:02.sort out the service at both the front and back end is to mean that

:25:03. > :25:08.we have got the elective capacity and the beds in order to get these

:25:09. > :25:12.elective cases done. I think you should not inform

:25:13. > :25:16.patients about this magical waiting time when clearly it means nothing.

:25:17. > :25:23.I would rather be told you might have your surgery in a year, if we

:25:24. > :25:29.can bring its -- forward we will. Why not be honest upfront? Why not

:25:30. > :25:35.say 18 weeks, when it means nothing? What I would say to that is that I

:25:36. > :25:39.work, as I say, in a provider hospital, all the NHS staff are

:25:40. > :25:45.working tirelessly and very hard to try to make sure that they maintain

:25:46. > :25:49.the elective servers as efficiently and effectively and as high-quality

:25:50. > :25:53.as they can. But we have been under a lot of pressure and we have to

:25:54. > :25:58.have a bit of a breathing space and time to sort out the front and back

:25:59. > :26:04.end of the hospital to free up these beds. I do not want to see, and what

:26:05. > :26:09.will not happen, is going back to historical times of the past when

:26:10. > :26:14.people were waiting three years, 18 months for surgery, but I believe we

:26:15. > :26:19.need breathing space in order to sort out the system so that we can

:26:20. > :26:23.maintain the elective capacity to do elective surgery at the appropriate

:26:24. > :26:30.time, that is what we are trying to do. Thank you, Professor Tim Briggs,

:26:31. > :26:33.and Christine, best of luck. That look the best of luck in getting a

:26:34. > :26:38.date. The NHS says it wants to stop

:26:39. > :26:39.children and young people having to travel far from home to get mental

:26:40. > :26:42.health care. Let's talk now to Marjorie Wallace

:26:43. > :26:45.of the mental health charity Sane. Sally Burke's teenage daughter

:26:46. > :26:47.Maisie was admitted to ten hospitals in the last three years and none

:26:48. > :26:56.of them near her home. Sally, I want to come to you first.

:26:57. > :27:00.Give us a sense of how difficult that has been for you, coping with

:27:01. > :27:04.Maisie being in so many places around the country? It is

:27:05. > :27:09.horrendous, as a family we have not been able to support Maisie at her

:27:10. > :27:14.most vulnerable. It has been very difficult as a parent to know that

:27:15. > :27:18.your child needs you but is at least an hour away, some of the photos I

:27:19. > :27:21.have had from Maisie or the police or the unit I read it difficult to

:27:22. > :27:25.deal with and not be able to take part in trying to help her through

:27:26. > :27:33.that -- some of the phone calls I have had. Presumably you had to

:27:34. > :27:39.travel each time, there is a cost indication? Always a cost. What

:27:40. > :27:46.about the cost to Maisie of being in so many places, was that problematic

:27:47. > :27:51.for her? Absolutely, each admission has caused more problems, none has

:27:52. > :27:56.been helpful in helping her get over her problems. She has become

:27:57. > :28:00.homesick, lost touch with friends in the community, it has had a knock-on

:28:01. > :28:06.effect on all of the aspects in her life including school. Marjorie, you

:28:07. > :28:09.are nodding, is this just about more money, more beds, more units so that

:28:10. > :28:16.people like Maisie can be treated closer to home? Lots of it is but it

:28:17. > :28:19.is about attitude to mental illness as well, so it is treated with the

:28:20. > :28:25.same seriousness as physical illness. We are hearing about

:28:26. > :28:28.waiting times of 18 weeks, in Melton -- in mental illness it is sometimes

:28:29. > :28:32.years and sometimes there are no beds available at all. Sometimes

:28:33. > :28:38.there are no local beds available, we have lost half the number of

:28:39. > :28:44.psychiatric beds 2000. 25,000 beds have been closed down. That means a

:28:45. > :28:49.person who becomes critically ill, like Maisie was, who is self harming

:28:50. > :28:53.and suicidal, they go to A and sent home and it is on a wing and a

:28:54. > :28:58.prayer that the community mental health team comes. Sally, how did

:28:59. > :29:02.you access that care for Maisie? Sometimes we have had to wait up to

:29:03. > :29:07.two weeks for Maisie to be admitted to a bed, it has just been cope at

:29:08. > :29:12.home, if you are not coping, ring the police, that has a knock-on

:29:13. > :29:19.effect because the police are not happy because it is a mental health

:29:20. > :29:25.problem. Really, I have had to fight every system is apparent, challenge

:29:26. > :29:29.every decision. It is not just more money, sending Maisie away to a bed

:29:30. > :29:34.costs a lot more than if they provided proper care at home and

:29:35. > :29:38.supports to keep her at home in the community with the right support and

:29:39. > :29:43.care that she needs. What support and care which you need to stay at

:29:44. > :29:47.home in the community? Experience, trained staff working around the

:29:48. > :29:53.clock with her. At the moment to get her to a steady ground so she can

:29:54. > :29:57.reintegrate back into routine and life. Marjorie, would that be

:29:58. > :30:03.cheaper than sending Maisie to a unit? Not necessarily, you have to

:30:04. > :30:09.have an intensive investment in that person. We are finding again and

:30:10. > :30:12.again at Sane, we get so many calls, people are not admitted to the

:30:13. > :30:16.hospital or units and they are put under the care of the crisis

:30:17. > :30:20.resolution teams, the rate of suicide amongst mental health

:30:21. > :30:27.patients under these teams has trebled in 13 years and is three

:30:28. > :30:30.times as much as in hospital. These community teams, they are having

:30:31. > :30:34.cutbacks, it is not just the closure to beds but the cutbacks in the

:30:35. > :30:36.teams, they don't have the time to spend with people. It puts people

:30:37. > :30:47.who need that time at risk. For you, Sally, what difference will

:30:48. > :30:50.be the extra beds and units make to Maisie if there is another situation

:30:51. > :30:53.where she needs to be admitted? If there was a Bedene. Home, what

:30:54. > :30:59.difference would it make to you and your family? -- a bed near your

:31:00. > :31:03.home. It would mean people could visit her daily, she could come out

:31:04. > :31:06.into the community, take part in a family event instead of feeling

:31:07. > :31:12.isolated and lonely, she could access school, so her routine would

:31:13. > :31:17.continue. Plus, the people in her care when she didn't need a bed

:31:18. > :31:19.would be in our community, so that experience and those professionals

:31:20. > :31:28.would always be at Maisie's doorstep. How is she now? She just

:31:29. > :31:31.came out of a unit last week, she is trying to transition back into

:31:32. > :31:37.normal life, she is up and down, very sad at the moment. Sally, thank

:31:38. > :31:43.you for coming on, best of luck to Maisie, and thank you also Marjorie

:31:44. > :31:47.for joining us. We had an e-mail from healthy about

:31:48. > :31:50.the NHS, I live in Northern Ireland and suffer from glaucoma which could

:31:51. > :31:55.lead to blindness if not managed properly. I was due to see my

:31:56. > :31:59.consultant in December 20 for a once a year checkup. When I rang this

:32:00. > :32:02.morning to see why I have not received an appointment, I was told

:32:03. > :32:06.the consultant had retired and no-one had been put in place to take

:32:07. > :32:12.over the running of the clinic. I was told to consult my GP if I had

:32:13. > :32:14.any further with my eyesight. We have no sitting Government in

:32:15. > :32:17.Northern Ireland at the moment because the elected representatives

:32:18. > :32:20.will not sit down with each other to talk about running the country. My

:32:21. > :32:22.problem is minor but there are others not getting treatment with

:32:23. > :32:25.greater need. Thank you very much, keep those

:32:26. > :32:27.e-mails coming. Diagnosed with autism at 45 -

:32:28. > :32:31.we'll talk to a woman who struggled with the condition for most

:32:32. > :32:34.of her life, without knowing why. And the young girls shaping

:32:35. > :32:36.the future of cyber Find out how their codebreaking

:32:37. > :32:39.skills are impressing the GCHQ The President of the European

:32:40. > :33:00.Council, Donald Tusk, has been outlining how the EU

:33:01. > :33:02.intends to carry out Speaking in Malta, he warned

:33:03. > :33:15.the talks will be 'complex and sometimes confrontational'

:33:16. > :33:17.and he said negotiations on future trade relations can only begin

:33:18. > :33:19.after 'sufficient progress' has been made on disentangling

:33:20. > :33:21.Britain from its 44-year Once and only once we have

:33:22. > :33:24.achieved sufficient progress on the withdrawal can we discuss

:33:25. > :33:31.the framework of our Starting parallel talks

:33:32. > :33:36.on all issues at the same time, as suggested by some in the UK,

:33:37. > :33:51.will not happen. The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

:33:52. > :33:56.has been giving his reaction. The UK's commitment to the defence

:33:57. > :34:02.and security of this region of Europe is unconditional, and it is

:34:03. > :34:07.not some bargaining chip in any negotiations that may be taking

:34:08. > :34:10.place elsewhere in this capital. We may can unconditional commitment to

:34:11. > :34:14.the defence, to the security of Europe, because we profoundly

:34:15. > :34:15.believe it's in the interests of stability and prosperity of the

:34:16. > :34:17.whole transatlantic area. Waiting times will be longer

:34:18. > :34:19.for routine operations, such as hip and knee replacements,

:34:20. > :34:22.as a trade-off for improvements in A performance and better

:34:23. > :34:25.treatment in other areas. That's according to the Head of NHS

:34:26. > :34:27.England, Simon Stevens, who is unveiling a strategy

:34:28. > :34:30.for the NHS over the next two years. He says increasing patient demand

:34:31. > :34:33.and the growth in new treatments MPs say it's unacceptable that

:34:34. > :34:41.residents who pay their own fees at care homes in England are charged

:34:42. > :34:44.on average 43% more than those The Communities and Local Government

:34:45. > :34:50.Committee blames a lack of funding, which it says is threatening

:34:51. > :34:52.the viability of adult The Government says it's already

:34:53. > :35:00.given councils an extra ?2 billion. Hotels, restaurants and tourist

:35:01. > :35:02.attractions have warned ministers of the possible consequences

:35:03. > :35:04.of restricting the movement The British Hospitality Association

:35:05. > :35:13.predicts a shortfall of 60,000 workers a year if immigration

:35:14. > :35:16.is limited from the EU. The Government says it will design

:35:17. > :35:18.a new immigration system China is closing almost half

:35:19. > :35:25.of its official ivory carving factories and shops today,

:35:26. > :35:27.with the rest due to close The news has been welcomed

:35:28. > :35:33.by conservationists in their ongoing battle against the illegal

:35:34. > :35:35.trade in ivory. Despite a global ban

:35:36. > :35:37.on international sales, a surge in demand has resulted

:35:38. > :35:39.in the deaths of tens of thousands of African

:35:40. > :35:41.elephants in recent years. That's a summary of the latest

:35:42. > :35:55.news, join me for BBC Lots of your comments still coming

:35:56. > :35:59.in about the NHS and those delays which are going to occur to routine

:36:00. > :36:04.operations. An e-mail from Linda, I was diagnosed with severe arthritis

:36:05. > :36:08.in both knees almost 15 months ago, I am in constant pain and still

:36:09. > :36:12.waiting. I will be 70 in June and have been paying income tax and

:36:13. > :36:17.national insurance since I was 15, I have owned the rights to better

:36:18. > :36:19.treatment. Instead I get the feeling it is my fault for living so long.

:36:20. > :36:34.Kathy says, waiting times could be met if

:36:35. > :36:36.patients who are not accident or emergency were diverted to their GP.

:36:37. > :36:39.Blocked beds are due to closing down care of the elderly which allowed

:36:40. > :36:41.people to be discharged and allow rehab to take place.

:36:42. > :36:41.Let's get some sport now with Jessica.

:36:42. > :36:43.Manchester City's women are through to the semi-finals

:36:44. > :36:45.of the Champions League after beating Fortuna Hjorring.

:36:46. > :36:48.Lucy Bronze headed home the only goal of the match.

:36:49. > :36:51.It followed their 1-0 victory over the Danish side in the first leg.

:36:52. > :36:53.Big match up next in the last four, reigning champions Lyon.

:36:54. > :36:57.Johanna Konta's incredible run continues.

:36:58. > :36:59.She beat Venus Williams in straight sets overnight to reach

:37:00. > :37:07.Amazing to think she was just six years old when Venus won this

:37:08. > :37:11.Konta will play Caroline Wozniacki in the final.

:37:12. > :37:13.England's Charley Hull is in contention at the first

:37:14. > :37:19.She was 2-under-par through seven holes before high winds

:37:20. > :37:21.stopped play at the ANA Inspiration in California.

:37:22. > :37:24.Shot of the day though came from South Korean teenage

:37:25. > :37:32.She made a hole-in-one at the fifth.

:37:33. > :37:34.And world number one Mark Selby is into the quarter-finals

:37:35. > :37:38.The defending champion edged out a tense final frame decider

:37:39. > :37:47.Judd Trump and Ding Junhui are also through.

:37:48. > :37:52.That is all the sport for now, I will see you soon.

:37:53. > :37:55.Laura James was 45 with four kids, a loving husband and great career

:37:56. > :37:58.when a surprise diagnosis changed her life.

:37:59. > :38:01.She was told she had autism, and suddenly she felt she had

:38:02. > :38:03.answers after spending years, as she describes it,

:38:04. > :38:06."trying to hide her weirdness from others."

:38:07. > :38:09.From rigid routines like lining up nail polishes in order of colour

:38:10. > :38:11.to struggling with bright lights, many things Laura had come

:38:12. > :38:15.to think of as normal were suddenly explained.

:38:16. > :38:27.And now she's written about her diagnosis in a new book.

:38:28. > :38:32.alongside Tom Purser from the National Autistic Society.

:38:33. > :38:38.Do you think, saying you were spending years covering your

:38:39. > :38:42.weirdness, did you have an inkling? No, I was unbelievably surprised

:38:43. > :38:45.when autism was diagnosed. I had spent so long trying to work out why

:38:46. > :38:50.I was different, wondered whether I had a mental health problem, it was

:38:51. > :38:55.because I was adopted, I wandered all sorts of things, but eventually

:38:56. > :39:00.life takes over and work happens, kids happen, so I just worked hard

:39:01. > :39:07.every day to try and appear to be nearer typical, really. I read that

:39:08. > :39:16.you found life generally confusing? I think I had to work three times as

:39:17. > :39:18.hard to get through the day as neurotypical people. I didn't

:39:19. > :39:23.understand what people meant when they were not clear about what they

:39:24. > :39:26.were saying, so vague things that happen, when people say, we might do

:39:27. > :39:30.that on Wednesday but we might not, I find that incredibly, incredibly

:39:31. > :39:35.hard to get my head around. Or just other things like having to do

:39:36. > :39:38.boring things like go round the supermarket, it always left me

:39:39. > :39:42.feeling utterly exhausted and completely confused. I was so

:39:43. > :39:47.confused by the sheer array of choice, looking at washing powder,

:39:48. > :39:50.hundreds of them, it overwhelms me. Something like doing the weekly

:39:51. > :39:54.shopping would just completely take it out of me and make me feel

:39:55. > :39:58.utterly overwhelmed and confused, and as if I was failing because

:39:59. > :40:02.surely that is a simple thing everyone can do easily. And things

:40:03. > :40:07.like scenes of socks would come out and feel very prominent to you? Yes,

:40:08. > :40:10.I have a think about clothing, I have to wear very comfortable

:40:11. > :40:12.clothes otherwise I cannot concentrate on anything other than

:40:13. > :40:20.the irritation the clothing is causing. As he said, on the outside,

:40:21. > :40:24.married, four kids, successful career, were people surprised when

:40:25. > :40:27.you got the diagnosis, for example your husband? I think he was

:40:28. > :40:32.initially surprised, lots of people in my life were as well, but I think

:40:33. > :40:35.that is because, lots of people are aware of autism now but we don't all

:40:36. > :40:42.understand what it means. I thought it was very much the stereotype, the

:40:43. > :40:45.boy with his trains, it did not occur to me someone who is a

:40:46. > :40:50.journalist, who communicates for a living, could possibly be autistic

:40:51. > :40:53.but once I started meeting of the autistic women online, reading more

:40:54. > :40:57.about it, it was just so obviously me, as if they had written a

:40:58. > :41:00.description of me, and I think my husband came to terms with it after

:41:01. > :41:07.he read more about it as well. You wrote that it was like -- he broke

:41:08. > :41:11.that it was like coming on the same first aid for 20 years, constantly

:41:12. > :41:16.getting to know you. Yes, he says that, I think I am very easy to

:41:17. > :41:20.know, but because I'm not a neurotypical person and most people

:41:21. > :41:25.are used to neurotypical people, I think he finds me a bit confusing.

:41:26. > :41:29.Like what? I don't really know! And he is not here to answer the

:41:30. > :41:33.question! It was a line that I wrote in the Telegraph a couple of years

:41:34. > :41:37.ago and people keep asking me, and I keep asking him, and he said he

:41:38. > :41:41.can't put his finger on it, but I think we should make him answer the

:41:42. > :41:45.question! You also talked about school being a confusing time for

:41:46. > :41:51.you, trying to understand how to behave as a girl? Yes, I found other

:41:52. > :41:54.girls really confusing because there were all of these unwritten rules,

:41:55. > :41:57.they would be really nice to one person, then she would wander off

:41:58. > :42:02.and they would be really mean about her, and I just couldn't get my head

:42:03. > :42:06.around that sort of thing, I didn't understand the games girls wanted to

:42:07. > :42:10.play, I am not competitive so I didn't understand wanting to win, I

:42:11. > :42:13.didn't get the sporty girls. I couldn't understand wanting to play

:42:14. > :42:24.with dolls or make-believe because it seemed really bizarre because it

:42:25. > :42:27.is not the real world, so I didn't want to do that, and I couldn't

:42:28. > :42:29.understand why everybody in the playground wasn't sitting in the

:42:30. > :42:32.corner reading a book, like I was. Did you feel isolated grubbing up? I

:42:33. > :42:35.did, but I am self-contained so I did not feel it in a hurtful way but

:42:36. > :42:38.I know other autistic women struggle with that, feeling that they wanted

:42:39. > :42:43.to belong. It was less important to me. When people were bullying at

:42:44. > :42:46.school, if it was scary and I thought they might punch me then it

:42:47. > :42:50.was a big deal, but if they were just being mean to me I was lucky

:42:51. > :42:56.that somehow, I could know if it is autism or a personality thing, but

:42:57. > :42:59.somehow I was quite protected from that, I just wanted to be away from

:43:00. > :43:02.them. You said you always had your head in books when you were growing

:43:03. > :43:06.up but you'd used an interesting author to learn about human

:43:07. > :43:10.behaviour? Jilly Cooper is my favourite author, I adored her, she

:43:11. > :43:13.is the first person I ever interviewed, which was awesome, but

:43:14. > :43:20.I genuinely believed her books were a handbook for life! What did you

:43:21. > :43:25.think we were all doingLAUGHTER. Did you find it helps to understand

:43:26. > :43:29.people's behaviour better? She is a brilliant writer, if you read her

:43:30. > :43:34.work you learn an awful lot. I learned about poetry from reading

:43:35. > :43:39.her book, a book about a TV station, and one of the presenters was making

:43:40. > :43:43.the documentary and I learned so much about poetry, she sparked a

:43:44. > :43:46.real passion, but I also learned about human behaviour and

:43:47. > :43:49.relationships, but I think it was confusing because obviously they are

:43:50. > :43:57.not balls and they are grown-ups. My 14-year-old self thought that

:43:58. > :44:04.someone would come in on a horse to rescue me! -- obviously they are

:44:05. > :44:07.novels. You have written about meltdowns that you had and it was

:44:08. > :44:14.actually one of those meltdowns that was in some way what led to the

:44:15. > :44:17.diagnosis? Yes, I have a genetic condition called Ehlers-Danlos

:44:18. > :44:22.syndrome which often occurs with autism, it is starting to be seen,

:44:23. > :44:26.and I was having tests for that and the tests were really quite invasive

:44:27. > :44:30.and difficult and it was the hottest day of the year in London, I

:44:31. > :44:33.couldn't eat for 24 hours before the tests. I went to my room and it was

:44:34. > :44:38.really claustrophobic, there was meant to be a tuna sandwich, the

:44:39. > :44:46.famous tuna sandwich, waiting for me because I had not eaten for so long

:44:47. > :44:49.and it was very bright, there was a child crying, it was just an massive

:44:50. > :44:54.sensory overload and I had an epic meltdown and burst into tears and

:44:55. > :44:58.kind of got, needed to get out, so I announced to the nurse that I was

:44:59. > :45:02.leaving and she said, we should have sorted it out, I'm so sorry, we see

:45:03. > :45:06.a lot of autistic people here and this is not good enough, we should

:45:07. > :45:09.make it better. I thought it was like that thing where you go into

:45:10. > :45:13.hospital and they mistake you for someone else, so I just left it and

:45:14. > :45:18.had the tuna sandwich when it arrived, but I had to stay overnight

:45:19. > :45:21.so I started googling, as you do, googling autism and there were a few

:45:22. > :45:31.things that sort of raised flags with me, but I googled autistic

:45:32. > :45:33.women and it was like finding myself, every description was so me,

:45:34. > :45:36.and I found some online groups on Facebook and talked to some women,

:45:37. > :45:39.and it became completely apparent that was the case with me. Lots of

:45:40. > :45:40.them have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome as well and our experiences were so

:45:41. > :45:50.similar. Tom, how unusual is it for a woman

:45:51. > :45:54.to get to her mid-40s before being diagnosed with autism? Not that

:45:55. > :45:59.unusual, at the National Autistic Society we have more women coming to

:46:00. > :46:03.us, and, like Laura said, finding each other online sharing

:46:04. > :46:07.experiences, because many are coming to diagnose this very late in life.

:46:08. > :46:11.Partly that is because of an increase in awareness in autism, an

:46:12. > :46:15.increase in the ability of diagnostic services but also because

:46:16. > :46:20.women tend to have been missed at a younger age and have tended to be...

:46:21. > :46:27.Have been misdiagnosed with other things throughout their lives as

:46:28. > :46:31.well. Is it a case that women may be better at masking it than men? There

:46:32. > :46:35.is still a lot of research needs to be done around women and their

:46:36. > :46:40.experiences, we know the experiences of autistic women and girls are

:46:41. > :46:43.different to those of boys and men. That masking element and that

:46:44. > :46:48.learning some of the social rules from sources like the novels of

:46:49. > :46:57.Jilly Cooper, for example, it is a perfect example of what girls are

:46:58. > :47:00.good at, perhaps Bob serving some of the social rules and being able to

:47:01. > :47:03.mimic them, masking their behaviours and learning to hide them. The

:47:04. > :47:07.impact of that can be huge for women and girls because they are trying to

:47:08. > :47:10.keep it inside, trying to fit in and they don't necessarily understand

:47:11. > :47:16.why they feel different to others and why it can be so challenging.

:47:17. > :47:21.How has the diagnosis helped you, your relationship with your husband

:47:22. > :47:26.and children? Has it changed anything? It has changed me because

:47:27. > :47:30.I always felt that I was failing, now I don't any more. I felt like a

:47:31. > :47:38.failing your typical woman, now I feel like a successful autistic

:47:39. > :47:43.woman. We are all quite eccentric so I think we all muddle along, my

:47:44. > :47:47.children, but I think it has helped my husband understands me, I can be

:47:48. > :47:52.difficult at times and I think it has given him a reason, he can pin a

:47:53. > :47:58.reason onto why I behave sometimes and it has made it easier for him.

:47:59. > :48:03.He realises that if I seem for not engaged, it is not to do with him

:48:04. > :48:07.but it is because I am in my head. Thank you ever so much for coming

:48:08. > :48:09.in, it has been lovely to meet you both, Laura and Tom.

:48:10. > :48:12.Laura's book, Odd Girl Out, is out next Thursday.

:48:13. > :48:19.Lots of comments on the NHS, Valerie says I returned home and choose stay

:48:20. > :48:23.from a six-week period in hospital with a badly broken leg. I am

:48:24. > :48:28.receiving carers three times a week. My observation of the system is as

:48:29. > :48:34.follows. Excellent medical care, very kind staff, cleanliness and

:48:35. > :48:38.sufficient medication. But a lack of consistency, a lack of

:48:39. > :48:41.communication, a lack of quarter nation, inefficiency, poor

:48:42. > :48:45.management skills, weaker language skills, constant monitoring to catch

:48:46. > :48:51.people out, no praise when the job is done well. It is a clear maxim

:48:52. > :48:54.that you need to say well done ten times to make one criticism

:48:55. > :49:00.effectively otherwise resentment and a lack of involvement quickly set

:49:01. > :49:01.in. Please keep your comments coming in.

:49:02. > :49:03.From Spooks to James Bond, we're fascinated by the secret world

:49:04. > :49:06.Well, GCHQ, the Government's electronic intelligence unit,

:49:07. > :49:09.is now on the look-out for staff in the real world.

:49:10. > :49:11.They're encouraging more women to consider a career in cyber

:49:12. > :49:13.security and recently held a code-cracking competition

:49:14. > :49:17.Out of the 8000 who entered, it was a team of three girls

:49:18. > :49:23.from Lancaster Girls Grammar School who won the coveted prize.

:49:24. > :49:26.And here they are now - Evie Smith, Lauren McHugh

:49:27. > :49:27.and Emily Shackleton, along with their teacher

:49:28. > :49:35.Gareth Hamilton, and Nicola Hudson from the National Cyber Security

:49:36. > :49:43.-- along with their teacher, Gareth Hamilton. And then we will speak to

:49:44. > :49:47.the people involved in the competition as well. Explain what

:49:48. > :49:51.you had to do? To begin with, and online round of the competition

:49:52. > :49:54.involving solving lots of different puzzles. I think we all really

:49:55. > :49:59.enjoyed that because we got to see your progress as we were doing that.

:50:00. > :50:03.Once we got through to the final it came -- we came down to London on

:50:04. > :50:09.Monday to participate with nine other schools, where we had to

:50:10. > :50:14.discover different clues about the hacker of a fictional school

:50:15. > :50:21.website. A few puzzles, I think you slightly underplay it. What were

:50:22. > :50:26.they? Four categories in cryptography, logic and coding,

:50:27. > :50:32.cyber security and networking. What is cryptography? Ciphers and codes.

:50:33. > :50:36.I don't understand any of this. You got through that and got down to

:50:37. > :50:42.London, and in London, are you nervous or worried at this point? I

:50:43. > :50:48.think we were slightly nervous but thought we would do our best and see

:50:49. > :50:54.how it went. What did you had to do? Find out who had hacked this school

:50:55. > :50:58.website. Find out and details about them, their phone number, their

:50:59. > :51:04.address. How do you go about that? Where do you start? First of all we

:51:05. > :51:09.looked at the page for the normal school website. Then we looked at

:51:10. > :51:14.the hacked page left there by the hacker. We looked at things like the

:51:15. > :51:18.source code and the hackers' Twitter, try to make connections

:51:19. > :51:23.between the hacker and their personal Twitter account. We looked

:51:24. > :51:27.at some of the details like the domain name of the website and how

:51:28. > :51:32.it had been registered, that told us things. Do you learn this all at

:51:33. > :51:36.school or outside of school? We learned parts of it at school, but

:51:37. > :51:41.the competition was a lot harder than what we were used to, we were

:51:42. > :51:47.learning as we went along. Gareth Hamilton is head of computing from

:51:48. > :51:52.Lancaster Girls Grammar School. You must be very proud, they are

:51:53. > :52:00.slightly underplaying... Yes, as a teacher this is the stuff of dreams.

:52:01. > :52:04.It is important to get young people into coding, especially girls? They

:52:05. > :52:09.are massively underrepresented in the UK workforce at the moment, and

:52:10. > :52:15.in places like GCHQ, so place is putting the subject area on the map

:52:16. > :52:20.are important with. Nicola works for the National Cyber Security Centre,

:52:21. > :52:26.party GCHQ. Good that you are a woman, promoting this. Are there

:52:27. > :52:30.many other women in this field? 10% of the workforce, the global

:52:31. > :52:34.workforce are women, that is a massive, massive issue for as

:52:35. > :52:38.collectively. Within the National Cyber Security Centre about a third

:52:39. > :52:43.of the workforce are women, about half of the senior management team

:52:44. > :52:48.are women, we are making strides. But the port in thing is what the

:52:49. > :52:59.talent pipeline looks like not just the now Buttin

:53:00. > :53:03.two, five or ten years, it is a massively growing sector, the stakes

:53:04. > :53:05.are really high and if we don't have that diverse workforce and young

:53:06. > :53:08.girls and women with a completely different skill set, we will not be

:53:09. > :53:15.doing the best possible job that we can. It is an enormous achievement,

:53:16. > :53:19.8500 girls doing it and the final with the three of them, big

:53:20. > :53:24.congratulations to them and everybody who took part. As EV said,

:53:25. > :53:28.this is not just about a project they did at school, it took a bit of

:53:29. > :53:34.oomph, and we will work on this in our spare time -- as Evie said. This

:53:35. > :53:40.is girls are showing an interest in cyber security where people really

:53:41. > :53:44.think boy thing, it is not, these girls have shown it really is not.

:53:45. > :53:49.How long did it take you to crack it? We spent some time on the online

:53:50. > :53:58.round, that took about a week of our time, not solid but, you know... You

:53:59. > :54:04.slept and ate a bit! And the final, nine o'clock to five o'clock with a

:54:05. > :54:08.break for lunch. It took us time to work out what to do at the

:54:09. > :54:14.beginning, but it is that moment of revelation when you realise what you

:54:15. > :54:18.need to do, it is very satisfying. Coding is a big thing, I am of two

:54:19. > :54:25.young girls and so many parents are saying it is really important we get

:54:26. > :54:29.the kids into coding. Why? We all use technology very heavily, but

:54:30. > :54:36.very few of us understand how it works. We need the next generation

:54:37. > :54:40.to understand it so they can keep producing the technology and we can

:54:41. > :54:44.keep using it. When you are teaching, do you get the sense that

:54:45. > :54:53.girls are put off because they see it as something that boys do? To

:54:54. > :54:58.some degree. But I think it is changing. If you are looking at the

:54:59. > :55:02.uptake that we have had over the last few years, definitely computing

:55:03. > :55:08.has been a more popular choice, I think it is changing. You talked

:55:09. > :55:14.about diversity, it is not just girls, you need a mixture of people

:55:15. > :55:17.from across society? Exactly, it is critical, when you look at some of

:55:18. > :55:21.these really complex problems it is how you look at them and the

:55:22. > :55:26.different ways that you look to try to solve those. What was really

:55:27. > :55:30.noticeable about the event on Monday was that out of those ten teams with

:55:31. > :55:34.the same problem, they were coming up with different answers because

:55:35. > :55:38.they were looking at it from different perspectives, which is

:55:39. > :55:40.key. One of the things we were really looking at and judging the

:55:41. > :55:54.teams aren't is teamwork, collaboration and how they work

:55:55. > :55:56.together to draw out each individual strengths, they had that in spades,

:55:57. > :55:59.it was brilliant. Congratulations, Ayew interested in a career in this?

:56:00. > :56:05.I think. Definitely taking it for a level, we will see how it goes.

:56:06. > :56:08.We have had lots of e-mails of people getting into a judge with

:56:09. > :56:14.their stories waiting for hospital operations. Pauline, I suffered a

:56:15. > :56:18.stroke in 2015, luckily it only affected my speech. Three months

:56:19. > :56:21.later I started having difficulty eating and swallowing. I was

:56:22. > :56:26.referred to hospital after various tests which showed that I had a

:56:27. > :56:30.small raised bump which constantly gave me a feeling of something being

:56:31. > :56:35.stuck. I went for the consultation in February and told there was no

:56:36. > :56:39.funding. I could wait for the new financial year and start again. I

:56:40. > :56:44.agreed and went back in May but it might not go ahead then.

:56:45. > :56:47.The boss of NHS England, Simon Stevens, will shortly outline his

:56:48. > :56:52.blueprint for the health service waiting times. Let's get more from

:56:53. > :57:06.our health editor Hugh Pym. We know the highlights,

:57:07. > :57:10.some people are unhappy, routine operations likely to be delayed

:57:11. > :57:12.further, but more money for A and cancer services? That's right, we

:57:13. > :57:15.will get the speech in a few minutes in the Aldershot Centre for health

:57:16. > :57:17.behind me. We are here because Simon Stevens wants to make the point that

:57:18. > :57:20.centres like this could help activity in the community away from

:57:21. > :57:24.hospitals, it is one of the largest of its kind in the country, they

:57:25. > :57:27.have scans, pharmacists as well as GP services. More investment in this

:57:28. > :57:32.sort of facility and he says you won't have to refer so many to

:57:33. > :57:36.hospital. But as you have heard, he has conceded that waiting lists will

:57:37. > :57:42.have to rise routine surgery, which is not popular with those affected

:57:43. > :57:45.by it. You will also talk about how generally community care can be

:57:46. > :57:52.enhanced by health and social care around England.

:57:53. > :57:57.Thank you, Hugh We will be bringing you live coverage of that year. Lots

:57:58. > :58:01.of you have been keeping into edge throughout the morning with your

:58:02. > :58:06.experiences of those delays. Delays to routine operations. It is a

:58:07. > :58:11.concern to many, but as we said earlier there will be improvements

:58:12. > :58:14.to mental health services and also A and cancer services. We will

:58:15. > :58:21.continue with the coverage on the NHS story in Bbc Newsroom Live

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