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I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
There should be a crackdown on the cash-in-hand economy | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
according to the author of a Government-backed | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
He also wants to see far more rights for people in low | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
There are too many people treated at work like they are cogs in a | :00:21. | :00:30. | |
machine, rather than human beings, and there are too many people who do | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
not see a route from their current job to progress and do better and | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
earn more. Do you accept cash in | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
hand and pay tax on it? One of the richest women | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
in the world, Melinda Gates, joins us to explain why millions | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
more women in the poorest parts of the world need better | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
access to contraception. When you travel the world, you meet | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
so many women who will tell you that if they can space the births of | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
their children, they can feed and educate them, and that is what they | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
want to do. You can hear that full | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
interview after 10 o'clock. And for the first time | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
in more than 30 years, Great Britain will be represented | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
in the ladies Wimbledon Johanna Konta says she's just | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
focusing on winning the match. She is delighted she has got this | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
far. Cash jobs like window cleaning | :01:19. | :01:33. | |
and decorating are said to be worth up to ?6 billion a year, | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
so we want to hear from you this morning if you get paid in cash | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
of if you've paid for jobs in cash Do get in touch on all the stories | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
we're talking about this morning - And if you text, you will be charged | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
at the standard network rate. Ending cash-in-hand jobs | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
and changing the rules on the gig economy, where workers get paid | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
per task, are two of the recommendations in a major | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
report into the way we work. The Matthew Taylor review also says | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
there are too many people who are being treated like cogs | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
in a machine, rather Our economics correspondent, | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Andy Verity, reports. In the last ten years, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
the economy's generated record numbers of jobs and the lowest | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
unemployment rate in nearly But according to the man who led | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
a government-commissioned review, more jobs hasn't always | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
meant more good jobs. In my view, there's too much work, | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
particularly at the bottom end of the labour market, | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
that isn't of a high enough quality and there's too many people not | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
having their rights fully respected and there are too many people | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
treated at work like cogs in a machine rather than being human | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
beings and there are too many people who don't see a route | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
from their current job to progress The review will recommend that | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
if someone is controlled and supervised, then they're | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
classified as a worker, or dependent contractor, | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
rather than self-employed. Those workers may be entitled | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
to benefits like holiday pay and employers may have to pay | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
national insurance at 13.8%. That's broadly in line | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
with a landmark court ruling in a case brought by this former | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Uber driver, Yaseen Aslam. I don't think it helps me | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
as a worker for what I've been fighting for in tribunal, | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
and that's what's concerning because the workers have not been | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
involved in the process The review also makes a bigger point | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
that self-employed work, from plumbers to painters, yields | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
far less tax for the Treasury, especially if the work | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
is cash in hand. For consumers, though, | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
the recommendations are likely to mean inexpensive services | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
will no longer be as cheap. Our political guru, Norman Smith, | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
is in Westminster this morning. This report could affect so many | :03:46. | :03:58. | |
people, but I wonder how much change it will really bring about? The mind | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
behind it thinks it will be the biggest step change in employment | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
rules in a generation. He certainly thinks it will be a very big deal | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
and what it is trying to do is address the grey area that gig | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
workers inhabit because they are not quite self-employed, they do not | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
have complete control over their working lives, often beholden to | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
these companies. At the same time, they are not really employees | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
either, not absolutely locked into companies like Uber. They are in a | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
twilight world. What Matthew Taylor is suggesting there ought to be a | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
new category of worker called independent contractor which would | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
enjoy some but not all the rights of employees. They would get holiday | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
pay, sickness benefits, potentially the minimum wage too. Two things | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
strike me. Will it happen? That seems to me a little bit vague | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
because although some people in government are saying, this is a | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
good report, we like it, there is no firm commitment to implement it, to | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
actually make it happen. When you look at the reaction of unions and | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
business, they are not terribly enthusiastic either. The real danger | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
is whether the report will end up like so many reports, there is a big | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
hoo-ha at the time but then it just gets pushed back down the agenda and | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
ends up not being implemented. She is, Norman. Thank you very much. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
President Trump's eldest son is facing further allegations | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
about a meeting he held with a Russian lawyer | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
The New York Times says Donald Trump Junior was informed | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
in advance by email that the information offered | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
by the woman was part of a Russian government effort | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
The Senate Intelligence Committee says it wants to speak to him | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Rescue teams searching for a missing 12-year-old boy have found a body in | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
the River Trent. Specialist boat rescue crews were caught the search | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
is stretch of the river at 6pm on Monday. Just after 10pm, police said | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
they had found a body in the water. An American military aircraft has | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
crashed in the state of Mississippi, It crashed about 100 miles north | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
of Jackson, the state capital. Officials say all 16 victims | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
were on the Marine Corps aircraft A man has been charged over an acid | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
attack on a woman and her cousin John Tomlin, who's 24, | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
is alleged to have thrown acid at Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
through their car window. Both suffered severe burns | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
to the face and body. A day after the Iraqi Prime Minister | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
declared victory in the battle to retake Mosul from so-called | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
Islamic State, hopes and worries about what happens next | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
are already forming. Members of a 72-nation coalition | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
are meeting in Washington later to work out how a stable future can | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
be secured and the US top general in Iraq has warned of the dangers | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
of allowing a new version So-called Islamic State appears | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
to be on the back foot. TRANSLATION: Our victory today | :07:01. | :07:12. | |
is a victory against darkness, against brutality, | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
and against terrorism. In Syria, US-backed forces | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
are closing in on Raqqa. But this is not | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
the end of the battle. Meetings are planned | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
in Washington this week to stop victories turning | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
to defeat and chaos. Even if IS do lose | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
cities, it doesn't mean The group could go underground, | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
which could create a One of the first questions | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
diplomats will want to know is, what will be done | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
to rebuild after IS? There is worry that | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
if power-sharing is handled badly, more people might | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
become IS converts. There is also concern that | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
as IS pulls out, Iran will be Iraq's government will need to take | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
action, according to the coalition's If we are to keep the next | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Isis, Isis 2.0, from emerging, the Iraqi | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
government is going to have to do something pretty | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
significantly different. They are going to have to reach out, | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
reconcile with the Sunni population. Much of Mosul in ruins with no | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
water or electricity. Nearly 1 million of | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
its people have fled. As aid agencies call | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
out for money, the memories of Iraq in 2003 will be ringing | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
in many people's ears, but who will be paying for the peace | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
and what will be the price if no one A conference begins in London later | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
which aims to improve access to contraception for large numbers | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
of women in the world's It's thought that more | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
than 200 million women worldwide who want access to family planning | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
services still don't have it. We'll hear from the philanthropist | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
Melinda Gates and the Development Secretary, Priti Patel, | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
just after ten o'clock. Two new studies have found | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
that people who drink Scientists say they've uncovered | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
the clearest evidence yet that the beverage could be | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
beneficial to health, with those drinking more | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
than three cups a day seeing But others have urged caution, | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
as Sarah Smith reports. It's the news every coffee addict | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
will be delighted to hear. Their daily, or better still thrice | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
daily, brew might be a reason Previous research has suggested | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
drinking coffee can reduce the risk of heart disease, | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
diabetes and some cancers. Now two studies, one | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
American and one European, have both come up with results | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
that seem to show coffee The study of more than 500,000 | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
people from ten European countries found men who downed at least three | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
cups of coffee a day were 18% less likely to die from any cause | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
than non-coffee drinkers. Women drinking the same amount | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
benefited less but still experienced What the study doesn't show | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
is what could be causing It's thought it could be | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
the antioxidants The results came out the same | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
for people who drank The figures don't prove that | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
drinking coffee will make you live longer, there's no cause | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
and effect shown, just a study of the life spans | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
of an awful lot of coffee drinkers. Plans to almost double | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
the number of Welsh speakers The Welsh Government wants | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
1 million people to be There will be more teaching | :10:42. | :10:51. | |
at an earlier age, and more Welsh-speaking teachers in primary | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
and secondary schools, as our Wales At Ysgol Glan Morfa, children's | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
lessons are taught through Welsh. Members of the Welsh Government came | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
here to spread the word about their new goal | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
for the language, supported We've laid down the gauntlet, | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
if you like, it's a big task, If we really want to do it | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
and we believe we can do it, then Expanding Welsh medium education | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
is at the heart of the strategy. It includes creating 150 Welsh | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
language nursery groups over the next decade and increasing | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
the number of Welsh speaking primary But it's recognised that there must | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
be opportunities to learn and use There's also a recognition | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
that they need support from parents. Some parents will say, you know, | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
if my kids go to a Welsh medium school, can I help them | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
with their homework? Will all the correspondence be | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
in Welsh from the school? So of course we want | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
to take parents with us. The Welsh language is | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
celebrated every year at the National Eisteddfod, | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
a cultural festival which welcomes The Welsh Government wants more | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
people to be able to communicate in Welsh, but the public's appetite | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
for change remains to be seen. Now take a look at this dashcam | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
footage of a driver who seems It's been released | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
by police in Norfolk. I wonder if he's going | :12:21. | :12:42. | |
to go through a red. He shouldn't even be driving | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
the rate that he has been driving. He's watching the | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
EXPLETIVE on his phone! He's watching the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
football on his phone. Norfolk Police said | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
the driver concerned The force wants other people to send | :12:57. | :13:15. | |
in dashcam footage which shows That's a summary of | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the latest BBC News. A warning letter? On the subject of | :13:21. | :13:36. | |
sextant which we will talk about in a moment, Becky says, if it is | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
children as young as five, it must be learnt behaviour. Parents need to | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
take responsibility. No child needs to see anything inappropriate for | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
their age. Shame on the parents. If you have a child who has sent or | :13:49. | :13:58. | |
received images, seminaked images, Snapchat images with tassles on your | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
private bits, we know what we are talking about, let us know how you | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
have handled it as a mum or dad. On the cash economy, why is paying cash | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
for jobs part of the report at all? The smell of a rat is strong. Steve | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Young Twitter says, this report by the UK Government is nothing more | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
than a cash grab. Interesting. Cash in hand economy, suggestions today | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
from this report that will be cracked down upon because it means a | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
lot of tax goes unpaid. If you pay cash in hand, receive cash in hand, | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
let me know the reasons why. Somerdale says, I receive cash in | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
hand, the best way to work, cutting out the corrupt middle person. -- | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
someone says. No time for the sport. Two British players | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
are through to the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon singles | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
for the first time in 44 years. So can Johanna Konta go one better | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
by reaching the last She takes on the number two seed | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
Simona Halep after a really tough three-set win over | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
Caroleen Garcia yesterday. Andy Murray isn't back | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
in action until tomorrow. But there'll be no third Wimbledon | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
title for Rafa Nadal. He was beaten in a near | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
five hour epic by Giles Striker Romelu Lukaku | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
is now a Manchester United player after officially | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
joining from Everton. He met up with his new | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
teammates for preseason And after a rest day, the Tour de | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
France starts again today Chris Froome holds the overall lead | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
but he'll be without team-mate Geraint Thomas who crashed out | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
on Sunday with a broken collarbone. It's where someone sends | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
naked or semi naked photo to someone else using a phone, | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
tablet or online. In the UK it's illegal to do it | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
if you are under 18 - yet the BBC has learned that more | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
than 4,000 children under the age of 17 have been investigated | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
for sexting since 2013. And nearly 500 of those children | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
were aged 12 or under. Our Newcastle BBC reporter has been | :16:15. | :16:34. | |
investigating. Tell us more? We found there were thousands of | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
under-17s that has been dealt with for sexting, including a number of | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
ten-year-olds and a few older teens that have ended up on the Sex | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
Offenders' Register for it. There are hundreds of primary school age | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
children. We put in Freedom of Information requests to all forces | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
in England and Wales. We found that Greater Manchester Police returned | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
the highest instances of children they dealt with for sexting. Norfolk | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
and Essex have provided us with quite high numbers. The Met police | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
weren't able to respond to our request, saying it would take too | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
long for a member of staff to go through all the records they had. We | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
got some context from some places such an an 11-year-old sending a | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
message via Snapchat to a 12-year-old or a messenger message | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
to an 11-year-old. You have been working on this story for months. | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
What is the most surprising thing you draw from it? I think it's that | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
it's not surprising - everybody I've spoken to when I've said sexting in | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
under-17s, they've rolled their eyes and said sort of, we know what you | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
are talking about. The most alarming thing, there is a five-year-old in | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
County Durham found to be sexting by police. They were using an iPad. A | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
five-year-old can use an iPad, you could give them an iPad for five | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
minutes to entertain themselves but in this case it's been there for a | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
bit longer. We learned the average age for sexting was 13-14-year-olds | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
soI visited a youth club in Sunderland to find out what they | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
knew about sexting. This is what they told me. | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
It's when someone asks you, like, sexual pictures of yourself, or | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
Is where you either like send like dirty | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
messages or, like, nude pictures of yourself. | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
Normally, like, your boobs, your bum. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
And, like, your private areas which no one asks you to. | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
If it's like a girl it will be, like, your boots, or, like, your | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
If it's like a boy it will be, like, you're down belows. | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
I don't know if it's illegal but certainly | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
I think a lot of people do because that's what people | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
I think a few of my mates have done it. | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
I do know someone that had sent an inappropriate image and | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
basically there was just a lot of trouble in school. | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
Teachers had to get involved with things like that | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
that has happened and went on because it just got sent around | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
People at school were basically just, like, laughing about | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
it and saying like just like it's really like, | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
like, basically they called her a slag. | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
So it's just, like, really upsetting for her. | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
She didn't realise what consequences would actually come from it because | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
she didn't expect him to send it about. | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
She sent a picture to her boyfriend and they fell out and then | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
the pictures got around and she got badly bullied for it. | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
Sexting could lead to put in your name on the sex | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
It can go to the police and it can carry on and stop you from getting | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
It could like ruin your career because if you want | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
to be a teacher or something and if it goes, like, | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
or social media then people will remember | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
Let's talk to Kerry Smith who is from one of the world's | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
largest children's charities, Plan International UK. | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
And Natalie Smith who is the education director of ARC theatre. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Their shows tour primary and secondary schools and teach | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
pupils about the consequences of sexting. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Hello both of you. Thank you very much for coming on the programme. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Your reaction to the fact that so many under-17s have been | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
investigated by the police, including a five-year-old? I think | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
it's true that it's unsurprising that so many under-17s have been | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
investigated. The five-year-old is an extreme example. If you heard | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
your reporter, she was talking about 500 under the age of 12. It shows | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
that we really need to talk to our children at a very young age about | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
both sex and relationships education but also technology and what you do | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
about taking pictures and sharing those images. They're getting mixed | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
up and confused and we need to start the conversations early. There is a | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
real difference between a five-year-old potentially sending an | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
image of themselves naked presumably innocently and perhaps a 14-year-old | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
girlfriend sending it to her boyfriend or vice versa? But if a | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
child has the technology, there isn't a difference and young | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
children want to be like their peers, like the older teenagers so | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
although yes it's probably innocent, if it's got a come radio, video, | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
they're curious -- camera. They're curious about it. Something naughty | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
sets your adrenaline going so it's exciting, especially if you think | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
other people don't know or it might be something you have not done | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
before, it makes it exciting. There is a disconnect between it being | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
against the law and kids doing it. Send a pic in your bedroom, your | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
boyfriend or girlfriend receives it, they might send something back, why | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
would you think that is illegal, what do you say to children about | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
that when you take your show around? One thing that surprises me is that | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
people think their phone is their property, but it's the parent that | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
is liable because they're paying the bill. So we tell them very little is | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
private anyway especially when it comes to the Internet and anything | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
they share on their phone their parents could have access to it and | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
be able to see. That is enough toe make them think about what they're | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
doing but they haven't even twigged that yet. So thinking about this is | :22:57. | :23:06. | |
something they would want to... Anthony says a five-year-old having | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
access to a phone to take photos in the first place. As for | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
criminalising the act of sexting between children, I'm in two minds. | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
Potentially he could be in favour of that. The way the police approach | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
this at the moment is pretty sensible isn't it? Yes. It's a | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
criminal offence so it already is criminalised. He means taking it | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
further? Yes, I mean the police are being sensible. If it's not | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
malicious, the police are going, OK, a crime has been committed but we | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
are not going to take any action. Although some teenagers who've done | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
this "innocently "requests, yes they're breaking the law but they've | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
ended up on the Sex Offenders' Register. We have seen a change in | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
the way in which police are taking forward these cases because of the | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
prevalence of it and the rising number and I think that really | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
speaks to one critical issue which is the sex and relationships | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
education that we have in our schools, the guidance is being | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
reviewed in September this year to be introduced next year and we | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
really need to make sure that children are learning about consent, | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
what it means to get someone's agreement to do something with them | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
but also about technology, so sexting and pornography and there | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
was a survey done this year with parents and the British public. | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
Seven out of ten people said yes, we want our kids to know about sexting, | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
so people know that there is an issue, they want that knowledge | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
shared with children and we've really got to make sure that that is | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
what is happening in schools. Your charity did some work focussing on | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
sexual assaults in schools in this country. How did that come about and | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
is it relevant to the sexting debate? I do think it is. We did a | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
piece of research that showed that in four years, reports of sexual | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
offences doubled and we also did a Freedom of Information request from | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
the Mors, but what it shows to us because what we are hearing from the | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
young people we work with, especially girls, is that they're | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
being sexualised, girls are being pressured, sexting is a gendered | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
issue, more girls are being asked to share and there's double standards, | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
as we saw from the film. The girls are shamed, but not the boys who're | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
holding the phones, but just the girls being shamed. There is a an | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
issue about what is happening in the environments and the streets and how | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
do we educate our people and the communities around them. Parents | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
also need to be confident and understand what is happening with | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
their children and understand what their children are being taught in | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
schools and take that conversation home. | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
So let us talk about parents then because absolutely crucial in how | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
you bring your kids up and what technology you give them access to. | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
What is the advice to parents, Natalie? One question we ask | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
students we work with on our broadcast programme is hands up if | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
you think you know more about social media, mobile phone technology than | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
you parents and every hand went up. Even teachers that spend all their | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
days with these young people are sometimes shocked and horrified and | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
surprised at some of the answers that they're giving us. I think | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
technology's often used as a baby sitting tool, as a peace-keeper, but | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
I think in the ways that adults would use technology, children are | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
using it very similarly but also quiet differently, it gives | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
something different to a young person when they are so connected | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
amongst their friends. So what do we do? Do we make sure we have their | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
passwords for all their social media apps, do we restrict use of the | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
phone? I think we have to educate. Give me some practical tips then, | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
what does that mean? There is an app that parents with get where they can | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
monitor up to five phones. They can allow children access to the | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Internet or not. They can allow children the ability to play games | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
or not, they can see what is happening on their social media so | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
they are connected. Parents have got to have an interest as well. A lot | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
of parents probably make assumptions about their child's online use that | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
is probably not very close to the truth. We hear especially from young | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
people in secondary schools that they have secret e-mail addresses so | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
they can sign up to them and get pornography accounts and parents | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
don't have a clue about that because they are not doing it themselves. | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
This is a the first generation that we have such a gap. When these | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
children become parents, they'll carry on with that technology and | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
the speed an the change. They share their passwords amongst each other | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
in a way parents don't, so one can carry on their streaks for them if | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
they get their phone taken off them - I'm not speaking from experience | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
here! What you have got to do is work in the school system, work as a | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
family to say what is appropriate behaviour, how do we talk about how | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
we act online and offline and parents actually, we need the kind | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
of information from schools, from providers about how do we talk about | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
sex and relationships and bring technology into that conversation | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
and we also need to create cultures in our families about asking your | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
child if it's OK to take a picture and share it. | :28:22. | :28:23. | |
Thank you both very much. Let me know your thoughts on this. | :28:24. | :28:42. | |
Get in touch. Still to come, Theresa May gives her first speech since the | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
general election. We'll look ahead to some of the things she's going to | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
say. And Jo can that plays in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon. Will | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
she make the semis and the final? More on that later. Time for the | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
latest news headlines with Joanna. An end to cash-in-hand jobs | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
and changing the rules on the minimum wage are just two | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
of the recommendations in a major review into the way we work.The | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
study - led by a former adviser to Tony Blair, Matthew Taylor - | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
recommends that people working in what's known as the "gig | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
economy", where workers get paid per task, should receive new legal | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
protections - and their employers should make national | :29:20. | :29:21. | |
insurance contributions. President Trump's eldest son | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
is facing further allegations about a meeting he held | :29:27. | :29:28. | |
with a Russian lawyer The New York Times says | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
Donald Trump Junior was informed in advance by email | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
that the information offered by the woman was part | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
of a Russian government effort The Senate Intelligence Committee | :29:38. | :29:39. | |
says it wants to speak to him Rescue teams searching for a missing | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
12-year-old boy have found Specialist boat rescue crews | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
were called to search a stretch Just after 10pm, police said | :29:49. | :30:00. | |
they had found a body in the water. An American military aircraft has | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
crashed in the state of Mississippi, It crashed about 100 miles north | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
of Jackson, the state capital. Officials say all 16 victims | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
were on the Marine Corps aircraft A conference begins in London later | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
which aims to improve access to contraception for large numbers | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
of women in the world's It's thought that more | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
than 200 million women worldwide who want access to family planning | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
services still don't have it. We'll hear from the philanthropist | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
Melinda Gates and the Development Secretary, Priti Patel, | :30:32. | :30:33. | |
just after ten o'clock. That's a summary of | :30:34. | :30:42. | |
the latest BBC News. Let's head to Wimbledon now | :30:43. | :30:44. | |
and talk to Sally Nugent. And we have yet another huge | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
match to look forward to, with Johanna Konta | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
in the quarterfinals. There are some impressive | :30:51. | :30:51. | |
statistics regarding British That is right. Sometimes sport | :30:52. | :31:02. | |
reporting can be all about the statistics and I try and keep them | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
out of it, but the statistics around this are brilliant. The first time | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
in 44 years we have had a British man and a British woman through to | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
the quarterfinals. We are used to it with Andy Murray, quite blase now. | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
He has made it through to the stage for the last ten years on the trot. | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
An incredible achievement. This time we can start to get a bit excited | :31:25. | :31:32. | |
about Jo Konta. She is playing brilliantly. She has always played | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
brilliantly. A few tweaks in her game she has been working on, her | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
serve, stance on the baseline, but what she has done which is fantastic | :31:42. | :31:49. | |
is she has conquered her nerves. She comes out very focused on court. In | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
interviews, she only talks about the match she has just played. She will | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
not look forward and think, am I going to make the semifinals? She | :31:59. | :32:01. | |
will never let herself think about that and she will need her wits | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
about her playing Simona Halep. She will need to keep calm and keep a | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
handle on the nerves. She has done it so well so far, she has a great | :32:11. | :32:18. | |
chance of top secret weapon, baking muffins every day. Every day? Only | :32:19. | :32:28. | |
one is left today. After her match, she bakes a batch for the coaching | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
team. White chocolate and raspberry, vanilla muffins, banana and | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
chocolate chip. She has had a request for peanut butter and | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
banana. I know too much about this! It is sad. She is baking and it | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
makes her feel, and the whole team love the cake. -- it makes her feel | :32:46. | :32:54. | |
calm. Are we done with Murray? He got through, did all right? I was a | :32:55. | :33:02. | |
bit blase. He plays tomorrow, he is moving brilliantly, better than we | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
thought. If you watch him in training, he is not. How he is | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
managing on court, I don't know. It must be adrenaline. I stayed up late | :33:11. | :33:22. | |
last night, it took 5 cents and almost five hours. Gilles Muller | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
knocked out Rafa Nadal. It was epic. I was shouting at the telly. Rafa | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
Nadal has played brilliantly, playing all of his shots, and yet he | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
was not winning the points. A mammoth match in the end. 15-13. It | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
was incredible to watch and you have to say, Gilles Muller played | :33:43. | :33:48. | |
fantastically. You might be able to hear a strange noise on centre | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
court. I can exclusively reveal that is the roof coming across. A little | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
bit colder today. Raid in the air. No plans to have the roof on when | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
they start but they tend to move the roof back and forward at certain | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
points in the fortnight. -- there is rain in the air. Live sporting | :34:09. | :34:16. | |
action at 9:30am from Wimbledon, courtesy of Sally Nugent! Thank you | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
very much. Sally every morning from Wimbledon live. Points from you | :34:23. | :34:28. | |
about the cash in hand economy, the review from Matthew Taylor, the way | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
we work in Britain in 2017. We will talk more about it. E-mail from | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
Clare, so many beauty bars on my street that only accept cash. They | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
are full of stuff that do not really speak English, I do not know how | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
they get away with it. It is commonplace throughout London. Roger | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
tweets, let us be realistic, it is not about employee rights, this | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
report, it is about taxes. Simon e-mails, I am a decorator and I | :34:59. | :35:02. | |
spent 18 months working for a very large construction company and I was | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
forced to work ten hours per day, weekends, or lose my job. Holiday | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
pay was taken from me, paying me through an umbrella company and | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
charging me ?1 50 per week simply to administer my wages. The | :35:17. | :35:19. | |
construction industry is ruled by corporate greed at the expense of | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
workers and their rights. The Government will not stop practices | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
like this while umbrella companies exist. Cash in hand is sometimes the | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
only way to make a living wage. Andrew says, I don't mind them going | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
after cash in hand builders, but only if they go after cash in hand | :35:43. | :35:49. | |
corporations -- go after tax avoiding corporations first. | :35:50. | :35:52. | |
One year after taking office, an embattled Theresa May | :35:53. | :35:54. | |
will make her first major speech since losing her majority | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
It's expected the Prime Minster will reaffirm her commitment | :35:59. | :36:01. | |
of governing for all and not just the 'privileged few'. | :36:02. | :36:03. | |
She's also expected to ask for greater cooperation | :36:04. | :36:05. | |
from opposition parties on some of the biggest issues | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
as a "fightback" by Mrs May, but will that convince anxious | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
This morning we're talking to three who say their confidence | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
in the party and Theresa May as PM has shifted since the election. | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
Let's take a look back at her eventful year in charge. | :36:24. | :36:26. | |
Brexit means Brexit and we're going to make a success of it. | :36:27. | :36:28. | |
I have just been to Buckingham Palace where Her | :36:29. | :36:31. | |
Majesty the Queen has asked me to form a new government | :36:32. | :36:33. | |
If you're just managing, I want to address you directly. | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
The Article 50 process is now under way | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
and in accordance with the wishes of the British people, the United | :36:43. | :36:45. | |
Kingdom is leaving the European Union. | :36:46. | :36:47. | |
The only way to guarantee certainty and stability for the | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
years ahead is to hold this election and seek your support for the | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. | :36:58. | :37:04. | |
The Conservative Party has won the most | :37:05. | :37:16. | |
seats and probably the most votes, then it will be encumbant on us | :37:17. | :37:19. | |
to ensure that we have that period of stability and that is | :37:20. | :37:22. | |
Lauren Foskett is a working mum of two who describes herself | :37:23. | :37:39. | |
She says although Theresa May's leadership has been | :37:40. | :37:49. | |
a disappointment, but she's still supporting her, | :37:50. | :37:51. | |
and Adam Fahn is a facilities manager, he's in Brighton, | :37:52. | :37:54. | |
and he says he'd still rather have Mrs May as PM than Jeremy Corbyn. | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
Welcome. Lauren, explain why you are an unhappy Conservative photo. The | :37:59. | :38:06. | |
campaign that Theresa May round was appalling. I think she lacks | :38:07. | :38:13. | |
charisma. As the campaign went on, I felt that she was not somebody who | :38:14. | :38:20. | |
deserved my vote, but I thought the alternative was too horrible to | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
contemplate so I still voted Tory. Appalling? Like a robot, kept | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
repeating the strong and stable mantra. Is this for real? Will she | :38:30. | :38:35. | |
continue to do this? She seemed to do that. She alienate it a lot of | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
core voters. Lorraine, have you been disappointed in her leadership? Yes, | :38:41. | :38:48. | |
I have. She had so much promise. The first woman PM for this century. She | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
came in strong. I liked her approach to Brexit. But it has been | :38:55. | :39:00. | |
undermined. She named a calculated risk which flew in the face of the | :39:01. | :39:04. | |
electorate -- she made. They said they would not be manipulated and | :39:05. | :39:10. | |
the younger votes came out and we are where we are now and she is in a | :39:11. | :39:13. | |
worse position than she was and it will go down in history as an | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
absolute nightmare, really. We will come back in a moment to what you | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
want to see from her in the coming months, let us bring in Adam. Hello. | :39:24. | :39:33. | |
How would you describe Theresa May as Prime Minister and the leader of | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
the Conservative Party? She deserves our support and she needs to stay | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
because the alternative does not bear thinking about for me but I do | :39:41. | :39:43. | |
not then she connected with people enough and explained the policies | :39:44. | :39:49. | |
enough to be able to appeal to more people and it allowed Jeremy Corbyn | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
to attack and win more votes. Is it about her, the way she is, or the | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
Conservative manifesto in the run-up to the general election? I think the | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
last election was more about individual leaders. Whether that is | :40:06. | :40:08. | |
right or wrong, that is what we were seeing. It was both. The way she put | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
it across. But there were things in the manifesto, things discussed in | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
the lead up to the election, that did not need to be discussed and it | :40:18. | :40:23. | |
lost us votes. I can hear you two agreeing. We were talking about it | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
and why did they bring fox hunting into it? Why did they think -- why | :40:28. | :40:34. | |
do you think? Presumably they thought people would be rallied by | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
it but it a near naked people. A lot of the policies seem to be picking | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
on people they know will vote for them and then they alienate them. | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
They did not talk about Brexit which was the thing she went to the | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
country for, Brexit. Lorraine, what do you think about Theresa May's | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
approach to Brexit? Do you know what it is? Yes, I am clear. But I liked | :40:59. | :41:08. | |
her original approach because as a negotiator, you have to go in | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
highly, hard, set out your stall. Then you have got wiggle room to | :41:14. | :41:20. | |
negotiate down. To go in softly, softly, it is not the way. At the | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
end of the day, we have to get the consensus of 26, 27 other countries, | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
that in itself will be a steep mountain to climb. It is about | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
negotiation. The now she is going softer, she recognises the | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
electorate are some of them, they were not quite clued up as to | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
exactly what Brexit meant and what they were giving up. The fact she | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
wants to have some consensus across the party lines, I think that is a | :41:52. | :41:58. | |
move. In the run-up to the election, it was talked about, though more | :41:59. | :42:01. | |
bipartisan approach to discussing what will be best for the country. | :42:02. | :42:08. | |
Forget party lines. Forget that you are Labour, liberal, whatever. Get | :42:09. | :42:11. | |
the best heads together to do what is best for the country. It is not | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
about her running out of ideas. It is about Labour four example has the | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
same ideas in certain quarters as the Conservatives. It is about let | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
us get consensus early on because, God knows, she has not got a | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
majority in the House, time is of the essence. Yes, her approach, I | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
think it is right. Do you like what we are told is going to be in the | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
speech today where she will say the opposition parties to contribute, | :42:42. | :42:48. | |
not just criticise? Yes, I do. She has not got much choice now. I | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
really do not like how adversarial our politics is and it is so | :42:53. | :42:58. | |
combative and it is about winning points and we really need to come | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
together as a country. I do not think she has any choice and I think | :43:03. | :43:05. | |
it would be nice to see the opposition coming on board. Adam, | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
William Hague, for a Tory Party leader, I do not what you thought of | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
him, writing any newspaper today has this warning to Conservative MPs, | :43:17. | :43:19. | |
any MP thinking it might be better to jeopardise the Government than to | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
swallow a compromise from time to time, he means about Brexit, should | :43:25. | :43:28. | |
get clear now that such thinking is naive and dangerous in the extreme. | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
What do you think about that? We voted for Brexit as a country. There | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
are a number of opportunities that will come out of it. We have to | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
negotiate. But we must remember what people voted for. We must deliver | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
that. But we have to negotiate. What do you think specifically people | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
voted for? I think different people voted for different things. There | :43:55. | :44:02. | |
was certainly some... I think people made a decision ultimately to leave | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
the EU, but not to stop trading, not to stop visiting, not to stop people | :44:09. | :44:11. | |
coming here and all of the other things we do together. It was just | :44:12. | :44:18. | |
not to have a political union. Yes. Agreed. The immigration was... To | :44:19. | :44:32. | |
others, it was a big issue. But to the centre, it is about control. We | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
already have a lot of our own control, we are not part of the | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
Schengen zone. That was the problem. We were not given enough information | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
and it was not there to give. There were lies and scaremongering, | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
blatant lies, how do you make a decision based on that? Let us not | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
rerun history. What do you want? Cross-party consensus on Brexit, | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
what else do you want? Mrs May says it is not just about Brexit, her | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
premiership. What else do you want from her as a conservative voter? I | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
want to look at other policies like housing. I think... Building more. | :45:12. | :45:20. | |
Affordable housing. Also landlords, section 24, I would like to have | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
that looked into because that supports local authorities, issues | :45:25. | :45:34. | |
about landlords over what the last Conservative administration did, and | :45:35. | :45:37. | |
in terms of making sure that we have a large pool of housing, if the | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
local authorities cannot support that, we need to help the landlords, | :45:43. | :45:46. | |
instead of taxing them. Are you a landlord? Sky yes, I am. I thought | :45:47. | :45:55. | |
you might be! Just to be transparent! What about you, Lauren? | :45:56. | :46:01. | |
I would like to see cross-party consensus about some sort of plan | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
for social care. Both of my parents went into a care home and their | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
house has to be sold to pay for that. My father unfortunately died | :46:10. | :46:13. | |
but my brother is in a care home now and as it stands there will be | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
nothing left wants the care is paid for. Some of the policies they | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
touched on in the election sounded like they might be fair but there | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
was not enough information and I would quite like to see that | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
discussed but it needs to be a broad discussion. Adam, final thought? | :46:29. | :46:35. | |
Keep going, you're our Prime Minister, a strong and stable | :46:36. | :46:39. | |
economy which will deliver us good, health care education, all the | :46:40. | :46:42. | |
things that I think we all want no matter who we voted for, so get on | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
and do it and you've got my support. Thank you very much. Thank you. | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
Likewise. Thank you. Thank you to all of my guests. Good luck and | :46:53. | :46:55. | |
thank you very much for coming on the programme. | :46:56. | :46:56. | |
Coming up, Melinda Gates and Secretary of State | :46:57. | :46:59. | |
for International Development Priti Patel joins us to explain why | :47:00. | :47:02. | |
millions more women in the poorest parts of the world need better | :47:03. | :47:08. | |
is going to make today, she's going to talk | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
More of us are self-employed than ever before and more of us | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
are taking up jobs in the so-called gig economy - people get paid | :47:18. | :47:20. | |
for individual jobs rather than getting a weekly wage. | :47:21. | :47:23. | |
According to one definition, that's "labour market characterised | :47:24. | :47:24. | |
by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work, | :47:25. | :47:27. | |
But a lot of workers find their jobs are insecure and exploitative. | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
The person tasked by the government to review the country's working | :47:32. | :47:33. | |
practices, Matthew Taylor, will report back | :47:34. | :47:36. | |
Now we can speak to Megan Brown, a courier, working for Deliveroo, | :47:37. | :47:50. | |
Paula Ventura, a government cleaner campaigning for the London Living | :47:51. | :47:53. | |
Wage, which is ?9.75 an hour, Joeli Brearley, | :47:54. | :47:55. | |
from Pregnant Then Screwed, who was sacked when pregnant | :47:56. | :47:58. | |
and Diane Nicol, employment lawyer who helped with Matthew Taylor's | :47:59. | :48:04. | |
working for Deliveroo means you are technically an independent | :48:05. | :48:16. | |
contractor delivering food from restaurants | :48:17. | :48:19. | |
for them to customers, not an employee of theirs. | :48:20. | :48:22. | |
Do you feel like an independent contractor? | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
No, I don't think I'm an independent contractor, I don't think I'm | :48:27. | :48:32. | |
running my own business. This is complete nonsense. OK. Because you | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
are seen as an independent contractor, up until now, then you | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
don't get sick pay, minimum wage et cetera. Indeed. The review is going | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
to suggest that you are a dependent contractor because you are | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
controlled and supervised by your company, does that sound about | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
right? Yes. This is based on the worker status which already stands | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
in law which would entitle us to national minimum wage, holiday pay, | :48:59. | :49:07. | |
things like that. Diane, how would you define this? The difficulty | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
before has been the lack of clarity between someone who is truly | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
self-employed and workers that Megan's just referred to. The Taylor | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
review recommendations want a distinction between the two and they | :49:23. | :49:25. | |
want to make it clear to employers and workers alike that that status | :49:26. | :49:32. | |
exists because, quite often, more unscrupulous engagers and employers | :49:33. | :49:38. | |
deny worker status. Obviously it requires the rights that they don't | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
want to follow through on like holiday pay. One of the | :49:44. | :49:47. | |
recommendations is that there is clarity in law. They need to issue | :49:48. | :49:53. | |
them with a statement of terms and conditions just as employers are | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
entitled to so that they and their employers and engagers are really | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
clear on their rights and responsibilities too. Thank you for | :50:02. | :50:09. | |
coming on the programme. You clean offices in the Loos of a Government | :50:10. | :50:14. | |
department from 5 am to 11 am, is that right? Until 9 am. So each | :50:15. | :50:23. | |
morning? Yes. Are you paid the minimum wage? Yes. But it's not | :50:24. | :50:34. | |
enough? It's not enough because, I see my colleagues, we work so hard, | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
they are short staffed, they don't book anybody else to help us and the | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
staff are feeling tired and then last week we had a meeting and then | :50:44. | :50:50. | |
the company said we are talking with the owners of the building, then | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
they just decide they're not going to pay for the living wage. As we | :50:55. | :51:02. | |
knew, many buildings in the same road, Whitehall, they pay the living | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
wage, the same company. That is why my colleagues and me were talking | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
about this. We are ask ourselves why they don't pay us. Just to be clear, | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
the company that employs you is not paying you the London living wage | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
which is ?9.75 an hour, so that is above the minimum wage, but does pay | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
the London living wage to other employees? No. No it doesn't or it | :51:27. | :51:34. | |
does? No, they don't pay to us in our building but the same company | :51:35. | :51:40. | |
pay for like number 22 Whitehall, they pay to FCO, the London living | :51:41. | :51:45. | |
wage. Jo understood. They don't pay it to us. Why do you think that is? | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
They said they want to consult the owners of the building and they | :51:51. | :51:53. | |
decide that they cannot pay the living wage to us. What do you think | :51:54. | :52:00. | |
about that? I think it's wrong because we work hard from 5am and | :52:01. | :52:07. | |
then the company win money because it's business, yes, and then I think | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
they should look after the staff more. If we are feeling good, we | :52:13. | :52:17. | |
work better and then they're going to get profit as well. They should | :52:18. | :52:28. | |
pay the London living wage because my husband and me, we are | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
campaigning for five years now, my husband left the company now I'm | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
just working there for 12 years. I think it's unfair because I should | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
trust in a company that I'm working for a long time there, but I've just | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
concluded that they don't do anything to help employees, they | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
don't care about us. Then I feel really bad. Yes. Yes. | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
Is this review going to touch on the living wage, do you know? We don't | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
comment specifically on the living wage but a we do comment on | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
enforcement of living a minimum wage and enhancing enforcement so that | :53:08. | :53:10. | |
people like yourself and your husband will be able to complain | :53:11. | :53:16. | |
about the fact that there is nonpayment and then the Government | :53:17. | :53:21. | |
through the HMRC will be able to enforce those wages. Also I think I | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
heard you earlier talking to someone about agency workers and umbrella | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
companies and that is all going to be reviewed and looked at as well in | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
relation to providing much more clarity and transparency around what | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
agency workers and those who're A typical and perhaps more capable of | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
exploitation are paid. Let me bring in Joeeli. Hi there -- | :53:45. | :53:52. | |
Joeli. You were sacked when you told your boss you were pregnant which is | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
shocking. What protections are you looking for from this Government | :53:58. | :54:04. | |
review? We'd like to see greater parity between self-employed people, | :54:05. | :54:08. | |
people on zero hour contracts, women who run own businesses and women in | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
precarious work because, at the moment, workers have very little | :54:14. | :54:17. | |
rights in terms of maternity so they have no right to time off for | :54:18. | :54:26. | |
antenatal appointments, paid work. Self-employed women have no rights | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
to maternity leave, yet the benefits are dependent on them taking | :54:33. | :54:38. | |
maternity leave. People who're self-employed don't get 90% of pay | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
for the first six weeks which employees are entitled to and men | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
have no right to paternity leave if they're self-employed. So we'd | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
really lake to see greater parity between those two types of | :54:53. | :54:54. | |
employees. Is that something that is covered? | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
Without giving too much away, I think the nature of the | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
self-employed rights to maternity and paternity is something that is | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
part of a recommendation and there is also a recommendation around | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
consolidation of the guidance on the rights that pregnant workers and | :55:13. | :55:18. | |
those on maternity leave have. There is a recommendation that the | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
legislation is looked at slightly longer term. Obviously what we are | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
trying to achieve here is a balance of rights and responsibilities | :55:28. | :55:31. | |
between the rights of the worker and the responsibilities of the | :55:32. | :55:34. | |
employers and engagers, so there are recommendations on those points. OK. | :55:35. | :55:42. | |
That sounds potentially hopeful, Joeli but Diane can't give much away | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
because the report isn't officially released until an hour or so. Claire | :55:47. | :55:51. | |
says, I have worked as a self-employed contractor being paid | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
per job. I think the company that provide this is can sometimes | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
exploit workers, giving them set schedules to work. So there is no | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
flexibility, putting pressure on me to take extra jobs and shifts but | :56:05. | :56:07. | |
still not giving sick pay, holiday pay or a pension or any kind of | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
benefit. I'm not saying that every company acts this way, but the one I | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
worked for did. I felt harassed and blackmailed to keep my job with | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
them, taking shifts I did not want and yet I was "self-employed". That | :56:23. | :56:29. | |
is the mischief that we are trying to address in the report which is | :56:30. | :56:38. | |
the honest approach to status and it sounds to me - I wouldn't obviously | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
give legal advice - but it sounds to me that in the new world that's been | :56:43. | :56:46. | |
recommended that person would fall into the category of dependent | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
worker and be entitled to holiday pay and so on. OK. Regarding what | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
you have told us, we have got a statement from the Cabinet Office, | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
they say: We outsource our cleaning services to a private company which | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
is responsible for setting pay. The Government is committed to tackling | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
low pay and we ensure all of our contractors comply with statutory | :57:10. | :57:16. | |
and legal obligations. With regards to yourself and Deliveroo, this | :57:17. | :57:22. | |
statement: Riders receive ?9. 50 across the UK, above the national | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
average. We want to offer high paid flexible work but want to offer the | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
riders benefits, they value the flexibility that self-employment | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
provides. If a recent poll, 82% of riders said flexible work is what | :57:36. | :57:39. | |
attracted them to Deliveroo. The report is out in an hour. We'll see | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
what it says then. Thank you all very much. | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
Coming up, Melinda Gates and Secretary of State | :57:47. | :57:48. | |
for International Development Priti Patel joins us to explain why | :57:49. | :57:51. | |
millions more women in the poorest parts of the world need better | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
Let's get the latest weather update with Benhaz Akhgar. | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
We can look forward to some rain today, welcome news for gardeners | :58:02. | :58:09. | |
and growers after a dry few days. We have seen some rain this morning. | :58:10. | :58:19. | |
Also some sunshine. This was the scene in Troon in Scotland. The | :58:20. | :58:26. | |
reason for the rain, this weather front is bringing it, it's coming | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
west-to-east the rest of today and into this evening. We have a trough | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
bringing a few showers through Scotland but they're mainly light in | :58:37. | :58:40. | |
nature. Sunshine in-between the showers, the best of the drier | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
weather for Northern Ireland. The rain continuing to push its way east | :58:44. | :58:46. | |
across England and Wales through the afternoon. Northern parts are the | :58:47. | :58:52. | |
best areas today if you are looking for drier conditions. | :58:53. | :58:55. | |
Northern Ireland enjoying the best of the brightness as well. Into | :58:56. | :59:00. | |
England and Wales, a lot of cloud. The rain turning patchy for a time | :59:01. | :59:04. | |
but intensifying again into late afternoon. Essentially it's feeling | :59:05. | :59:11. | |
much fresher with temperatures below for this time of year. A bit breezy | :59:12. | :59:16. | |
along the coasts. If you are going to Wimbledon, a few showers likely. | :59:17. | :59:23. | |
Temperatures up to 18 Celsius, feeling fresher than the past few | :59:24. | :59:27. | |
days. The rain will continue to fall across England and waeltion. Further | :59:28. | :59:32. | |
north, they'll tend to clear away. It will be a chilly night. South and | :59:33. | :59:38. | |
east will hang on to the rain and it will be a little blustery as well. | :59:39. | :59:42. | |
Temperatures should be more comfortable for sleeping tonight, | :59:43. | :59:45. | |
ranging between seven to 14. Tomorrow we'll see the rain across | :59:46. | :59:49. | |
the south-east first thing. That will clear through and high pressure | :59:50. | :59:52. | |
is in charge of the weather. We can look forward to plenty of sunshine | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
with light winds. It will feel pleasant, it's a lovely looking day | :59:57. | :00:01. | |
with temperatures tomorrow ranging between 14 to about 22. We are | :00:02. | :00:04. | |
feeling much more comfortable and less humid. By the time we head into | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
Thursday, we have the risk of a few showers across parts of the north | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
and west. Equally sunny spells to look forward to. The best of the | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
drier and brighter weather across the south-east. Temperatures ranging | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
between 14 to about 23. Remaining cloudy as we head towards the end of | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
the week. Hello, it's Tuesday, it's 10 | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire. In major report into the way we work | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
in Britain calls for sweeping changes. Quite often, more | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
unscrupulous employers deny the status of workers because it | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
requires a tier of rights but they do not want to follow through on. We | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
will talk more about the report. Do you accept cash in hand or do | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
you always pay cash in hand? Window painting, the decorating? Do | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
you take cash? Do you pay tax on it? Melinda Gates joins us to explain | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
why millions more women need better When you travel the world, you meet | :01:14. | :01:27. | |
so many women that will tell you that if they can space the births of | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
their children, they can feed and educate them and that is what they | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
want to do. The foundation is promising ?300 million to help pay | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
for the contraception. You can hear that full interview | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
in a few minutes' time. And we'll speak to the singer, | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
Ragsy, about plans to almost double The Welsh Government wants | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
1 million people to be Here's Joanna Gosling | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
in the BBC Newsroom An end to cash-in-hand jobs | :01:53. | :02:04. | |
and changing the rules on the minimum wage are just two | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
of the recommendations in a major to Tony Blair, Matthew Taylor, | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
recommends that people working in what's known as the gig economy, | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
where workers get paid per task, should receive | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
new legal protections to stop There is a problem about the quality | :02:22. | :02:35. | |
of work amongst lower paid, lower skilled workers. What we have to do | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
is tackle exploitation so there are too many people who suffer one-sided | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
flexibility, their employers have lots of flexibility but it is not | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
how it feels to them, they are insecure, they do not feel they have | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
a voice at work. President Trump's eldest son | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
is facing further allegations about a meeting he held | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
with a Russian lawyer The New York Times says | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
Donald Trump Junior was informed in advance by email | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
that the information offered by the woman was part | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
of a Russian government effort The Senate Intelligence Committee | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
says it wants to speak to him A body has been found by police | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
searching for 12-year-old Owen Jenkins who fell | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
into the River Trent in Nottingham. A family member said the schoolboy | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
was a hero who had gone in to save a female friend | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
who was struggling. Nottinghamshire Police | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
said in a statement, "Our thoughts are with the family | :03:24. | :03:24. | |
during this time." An American military aircraft has | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
crashed in the state of Mississippi, It crashed about 100 miles north | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
of Jackson, the state capital. Officials say all 16 victims | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
were on the Marine Corps aircraft A day after the Iraqi Prime Minister | :03:40. | :03:53. | |
declared victory in the battle to retake Mosul from so-called Islamic | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
State, Amnesty International says the fighting has been catastrophic | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
for civilians. It has accused so-called Islamic State of using | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
human shields and says Iraqi and coalition forces fail to take | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
adequate precautions. It is calling for an independent consultation to | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
assess the scale of civilian deaths. A conference begins in London later | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
which aims to improve access to contraception for large numbers | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
of women in the world's It's thought that more | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
than 200 million women worldwide who want access to family planning | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
services still don't have it. We'll hear from the philanthropist | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Melinda Gates and the Development Now take a look at this dashcam | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
footage of a driver who seems It's been released | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
by police in Norfolk. Isn't that crazy? Norfolk police say | :04:35. | :05:37. | |
the driver was given a warning letter. They want other people to | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
send in videos of people breaking the law. | :05:43. | :05:43. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News. | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
Liz has a bit more sport. Good morning. | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
Manic Monday really lived up to its billing, with one shock exit, | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
one match postponed and, of course, two British | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
players through to the quarterfinals of the singles. | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
44 years ago was the last time we could say that. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
And the last woman to win Wimbledon was Virginia Wade in the year | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
of the Queen's silver jubilee back in 1977. | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
She takes on Simona Halep this afternoon, after a really tough | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
It is those positions, though situations, that I dream of and | :06:20. | :06:30. | |
dreamt of when I was a little girl, and now, to be a part of those | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
battles on big stages, so I think that is what it is about, to be a | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
professional athlete. Andy Murray reached | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
the quarterfinals for the tenth year in a row, thanks to a fairly | :06:44. | :06:44. | |
straight-forward win After all the injury worries before | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
the tournament started he says Two weeks ago, I was resting and a | :06:51. | :07:02. | |
little bit concerned. When you have issues just a few days before a big | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
event, it is frustrating. I have managed it well and I think I have | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
played some good stuff. Today was the best I have played so far in the | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
tournament. Yeah, I am doing well, so hopefully, keep it up. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Roger Federer is through but there won't be a third Wimbledon title | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
for Rafael Nadal this year - he's out, beaten by Gilles Muller | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
It was 15-13 in the decider and the pair were on court | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
That meant Novak Djokovic's match had to be put back to today. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
There's been some criticism of the scheduling of matches yesterday. | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
World number one Angelique Kerber said she was "really surprised" | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
to find herself on Court Two, after she lost. | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Only two of the eight women's singles matches | :07:54. | :07:54. | |
British and Irish Lions prop Kyle Sinckler has apologised | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
after he was arrested during a night out in Auckland, following the drawn | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Police said a man was placed under arrest but not charged | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
following a minor disorder in the early hours | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
The Lions tour manager said Sinckler had been reminded of his duties. | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
Romelu Lukaku says he'll settle for nothing less | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
than titles every season, after completing his ?75 million | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
move from Everton to Manchester United. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
He trained with his new teammates for the first time yesterday | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
on United's pre-season tour of the USA. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Lukaku also says his best friend Paul Pogba played a "big role" | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
After a rest day, the Tour de France resumes in the next few | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
minutes with a stage to favour the sprinters. | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
Chris Froome holds the overall lead but he'll have to make do | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
without teammate Geraint Thomas who crashed on Sunday | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
That is all from me for now. We will see you at 10:30am. Thank you. | :08:56. | :09:09. | |
Millions of women in some of the poorest parts of the world | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Now one of the richest women in the world, Melinda Gates, | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
The issue is being discussed at a big international | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
When a similar event was held five years ago, a pledge was made | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
for contraception to reach 120 million extra women by 2020. | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
Today, both the UK Government and the Gates Foundation have | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
committed extra cash to help that target be met - but is it enough? | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Earlier I spoke to Melinda Gates and to Priti Patel, who is | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
the Secretary of State for International Development. | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
Thank you both very much for talking to us. | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
Let me ask you, first of all, Melinda Gates, why contraception is | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
so important to women and girls in the poorest countries? | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
Well, when you travel the world, you meet so | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
many women that will tell you that if they can space the births of | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
their children, they can feed and educate them and that's | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
So if we allow them to have these tools, if we offer | :10:01. | :10:12. | |
them, and we teach them about their bodies, | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
they will readily take them up because they | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
know it makes a huge difference for lifting themselves and their | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
So there is a direct link, you are saying, | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
between contraception and education for women? | :10:24. | :10:24. | |
And women will tell you all over the world, many of them | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
know about their bodies, they know about | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
contraceptives, but they need to know more. | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
And then once they have that information, they readily take them | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
up because they want to space the births | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
of their children, because | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
they will say, if I can space the births of my | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
children, I can then feed my kids and I can educate them. | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
And for them their future is all about educating their kids. | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
155 million women in the developing world currently use no | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
We don't fund it and the supply chains are broken, and so | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
in places like Senegal in West Africa, contraceptives, until we | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
started this programme, had been stocked out 80% of the time. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
So, women will tell you, I leave my field, I have to make | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
up a reason for my husband that I'm going into town, | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
and then I get to the clinic and what I want isn't there. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
It's literally a life and death prices | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
You are, your foundation, the Bill and Melinda | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
Gates Foundation, is promising an extra $375 million. | :11:26. | :11:26. | |
That's an extraordinary sum of money, over the | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
next four years, for global family planning efforts. | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
What is driving you to focus the money | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Because Bill and I see the difference it makes, see how | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
transformative it is in families' lives, and if women can take these | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
tools up, and we see this demographic bulge that's happening, | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
1.2 billion adolescents, it's the biggest population of adolescents | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
we've ever had in the history of the Earth | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
developing world and if we don't offer them contraceptives, you are | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
basically putting them into a life of destitute poverty. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Whereas if you can offer a girl contraceptives, | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
She will tell you, I want to stay in school, | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
I don't want to have that first baby until I'm ready. | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
And today, one in five girls in the developing world | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
under the age of 18 die because of a pregnancy. | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
So we know this is one of the most important things we can | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
do and we are offering this money to really go after | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
Priti Patel, the UK Government is pledging an extra 45 | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
million a year, I think, for the next five years. | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
Because, as Melinda has said and explained, the | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
need, the demand is enormous in the world. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
You know, there are still in excess of 214 million women and | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
girls who simply do not have access to modern methods of family planning | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Just explain to our audience why it's the | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
responsibility of British taxpayers to fund that. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Well, we are world leaders, obviously, working with our | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
partners such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
many others in this whole area because of the wider implications. | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
You know, in terms of poverty | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
in particular - that women and girls are trapped in | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
that vicious cycle of poverty if they come out of education. | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
If they live in rural and poorer parts of | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
the developing world, they have no access to modern methods of | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
That means that their families are just going to increase, | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
they don't get to space out the number of children that they have, | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
and they are trapped in that vicious cycle and that is not good for them. | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
It's certainly not good for their countries as well | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
when those young women and girls could get their | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
education and then become educated, and even go to work as well and | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
The great thing about the summit that we have | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
taking place today in London is that we have a range | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
of our partners who are attending, but also finance | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
ministers, health ministers and development ministers from many of | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
these countries who themselves know that they need to do more work in | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
this area and they want to work with us, the British Government, | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
and with the partners as well, to ensure that | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
we can deal with those supply issues. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Those really crunch supply issues and get in contraceptives to | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
You will know, there will be people watching you who will say, we have | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
poverty in this country, we don't need to be spending British | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
taxpayers' money funding contraception for women in the | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
Well, I would disagree with that pretty strongly, | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
because, of course, you know, we have to do our bit as well as a | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
world leader when it comes to not just leading the world on aid and | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
development, but also in this area as well. | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
We are working with UK firms, pharmaceutical companies as well, to | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
really lower the price of commodities, to really, you know, | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
get the commodities to the women and girls that need this. | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
But also, to tackle some of the big challenges | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
The population bulge in developing countries is just going | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
And of course that has big pressures on our resources, | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
it has an enormous pressure on migration, | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
on the lack of jobs that | :14:59. | :14:59. | |
are being created in poor countries, and we are trying to work to tackle | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
some of those major global challenges. | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
We do this not on our own, obviously, but with our partners | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
and the United Kingdom is stepping up in this area. | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
Melinda Gates, you are Catholic, the Catholic Church is | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
How much of an issue is that for you? | :15:15. | :15:38. | |
What I know and what I believe is, I'm in and out of these places, this | :15:39. | :15:48. | |
makes a difference in women's lives. Emboyered women transform societies. | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
The Pope probably knows that. He's described as an enlightened Pope. | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
Yet the view about contraception that it's banned in the eyes of the | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Catholic Church hasn't shifted. Do you think it will? I don't know. I | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
can't predict what he will do, but what I know about this Pope is that | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
he's lived amongst the poor and seen women die. So I think if you believe | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
in women, you offer them the right tools and offer them ways to be able | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
to space the births of the children so their children don't die. | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Do you think that could change over time? It just may take a long time? | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
There are different views on this in the Catholic Church. | :16:31. | :16:46. | |
I can't predict what he will do but what I know | :16:47. | :17:01. | |
about this Pope is that he has lived amongst the poor, he has lived with | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
So I think if you believe in women you | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
And you offer them ways to be able to space | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
the births of their children so that their children don't die. | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Do you think that could change over time? | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
And there are different views on this in the | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
But that's to prevent disease, that's different. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
But they also see the difference it makes in families' | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
lives, to not have six and seven children. | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
Donald Trump has blocked US funds going to any organisation | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
involved in family planning, abortion advice and care overseas. | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
I think that any time you block something | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
that is right for women you're not saying that you're really for women. | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
Now, this administration has put on a policy we've seen under other | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
I can't express what exactly he stands for in terms | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
of women but I'll tell you that if you're for women you fund family | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
planning so Bill and I are working with Congress to make sure that this | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
Britain will have men's and women's quarter-finalists at Wimbledon | :17:56. | :18:05. | |
Johanna Konta beat France's Caroline Garcia in a three hour match | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
on court one yesterday to become the first British woman to reach | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
Speaking after her victory, she said it was what she had dreamed | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
Meanwhile defending champion and top seed Andy Murray then saw off | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
Frenchman Benoit Paire on Centre Court. | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
Johanna Konta at the top of the screen | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
was up against Caroline Garcia in a match of small margins. | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
Garcia supporters saw her take the second | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
set and Garcia had served brilliantly but this was match point | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
and this was Wimbledon, and this is a critical mistake. | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
Give Johanna Konta on occasion, she'll rise to it. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
It's those situations that I dreamt of when I was a little girl. | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
And even now to be a part of those battles on big stages. | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
You're now the first British woman into a | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
quarterfinal at Wimbledon since Jo Durie in 1984. | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
Andy Murray was playing Benoit Paire of | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
France, 46 in the world, at Wimbledon Murray had never lost | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
Tie-break in the first, 6-4 in the second, Murray was | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
COMMENTATOR: That's too big, too good. | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
In the third set Murray got heated with the umpire | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
No matter, Murray said it was the best he'd hit the ball | :19:21. | :19:30. | |
in the tournament so far and Paire ultimately couldn't match it. | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
UMPIRE: Game, set and match, Murray, 3-0. | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
So Murray plays again tomorrow, but Konta's quarter final | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
is first up today - she faces a tough match against | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
So is it possible for two Brits to go all the way? | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
And does this mark a new golden age in British tennis? | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
We can speak now to Amanda Owens, a former professional tennis player, | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
And Jo Durie, who was the last British woman to reach the Wimbledon | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
She was formerly ranked number five in the world. | :20:09. | :20:18. | |
And, Andy Murray's former coach also joins us. Jo, what do you think of | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
Jo's contest so far? Fantastic, it's great to see a British woman in the | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
second week. We have always known Andy Murray can get there but Jo for | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
the first time has played really tough tennis. I'm not at all | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
surprised because she looks very good in the top ten mix now and | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
believes in herself. Miles, what do you think of her achievement thus | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
far? Not only in this tournament but in the last couple of years, it's | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
been amazing. She's one of these players who has really turned | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
herself around. There were not many people marking her out for this kind | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
of success. When she burst on to the stage in the Aussie Open, often that | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
is not backed up but she's gone from strength-to-strength and is | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
definitely in the mix to win this tournament. You think so? No doubt | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
about it. I've been fortunate to work on a couple of her matches. One | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
of her opponents a couple of years ago was really high quality, she | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
could have panicked there and she absolutely stayed the course, played | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
really good tennis, she's got the weapons as well to play tennis on | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
her own terms. There is a lot of the girls in the mix who I think just | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
about everybody left in the drawer, there's a case for why they could | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
win the tournament but Jo Konta's been very, very impressive. Jo Durie | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
when Miles was say ing she could win it, I saw you nodding in agreement. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
Look, any one of them could win it, the last eight, they're playing | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
fantastic tennis. I was surprised that Jo was the bookies' favourite. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
You have got Venus Williams in there who's won five times soI would have | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
thought she would be the favourite, but when you get to this stage, you | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
are playing well, used to playing and used to the grass, so any one of | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
the eight could win so why not Jo. OK. Amanda Owens, you used to play | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
tennis yourself professionally. You were nodding in agreement when Miles | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
said over the last few years Jo's sort of strengthened mentally as | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
well. Wa kind of work has she been doing? Absolutely. I agree with | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Miles and Jo and Jo hi it's nice to see you both, by the way and Jo | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
picked me out as a tennis player a long time ago. Jo Konta, has | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
incredible mental strength and is brilliant under pressure. We are | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
seeing a player who, for the first time in a long time since Jo Durie, | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
that we have a player that can cope with the pressure but who plays the | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
points. She has enormous self-belief but the composure in her last match | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
and yesterday was just immense. It shows that she will go all the way. | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
This time in this tournament? Yes, but she's got the capability to win | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
a Grand Slam. The way she played yesterday and her decision-making, | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
it was superb. Especially on the critical points. It will be | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
interesting to see what Jo and Miles think. Go on, Miles? Well, I didn't | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
see as much of yesterday's match because I was working on some of the | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
other matches but again that match and the amount of times she was in | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
sticky situations and hit the line with her serve. Jo's incredibly | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
disciplined with her game style which under pressure is huge. There | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
are no decisions to be made, she knows what she is goes to do and | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
generally executes it very well. If it comes down to the wire, that is a | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
massive help. Having said that, I do think that, for a British player, I | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
remember Andy winning it for the first time. Even talking about it | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
now I get goose bumps, so there is going to be a different level of | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
pressure but it's the same for all of the girls, mainly apart from | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Venus who's been there numerous times, as Jo said. Let's talk about | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
Andy Murray. I was on Centre Court supporting him yesterday, only the | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
second time I've been and I'm amazed at how close you are to the players | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
and that just sort of fascinated me because he's a God when he's moving | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
during the points but in-between, he sort of hovels around like an old | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
man, I hope he won't mind me saying that but that is how it looked to | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
me. I'm not an expert, Miles, but is that fair? Yes, he moves like the | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
rest of us between points, let's be fair. Like me! But it's not uncommon | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
for him and it looks like that hip is very much protecting it. There | :25:06. | :25:19. | |
was a unique match yesterday, his opponent Benoit Paire, he was made | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
to change direction. A couple of drop shots he went for. With Andy, | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
it's like a burst of speed. I don't think that is an issue. Often you | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
see players, they all have niggles. Sometimes in a bizarre way it can be | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
helpful because it takes pressure off, maybe puts a bit of focus on a | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
different area of their game rather than everything being about winning | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
this title. Jo, what are your views on how far | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
Andy Murray can go trying to defend the title? I think as soon as he | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
gets to Wimbledon and gets on Centre Court then he becomes different and | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
of course he might have a sore hip - join the rest of us - but once the | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
points start, he does move just brilliantly, one of the fastest | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
movers on court and he knows how to move on grass court. Health and | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
Safety got that down. I expect him to be in the final and probably | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
playing Roger Federer. That will be interesting, hopefully. Yes. Amanda | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Owens, in terms of Andy Murray, he's physically and mentally bulked up. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Yes. But to cope with a bit of a pain in the hip? No. He's got so | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
much experience and he's so resilient. As Miles pointed out, | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
it's about being able to focus on what you need to focus on at that | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
point, it's not a distraction for him, he's playing really well | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
considering he's been off and has had injury anythings. -- niggles. | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
He's playing really well and said yesterday he was pretty happy with | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
the way he played. Tell us briefly some of the tips you give to the | :26:58. | :27:08. | |
players, tennis, rugby players, that are utilised to cope with daily | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
life? It's about being in the present, focussing on minefulness | :27:15. | :27:16. | |
and the here and now. What does that mean? It's not focussing on the | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
mistake, the shot you have hit or missed and not focussing on an | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
injured hip or anything that can be a distraction. It's being able to | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
refocus and reset and focus on the ball, the point and what you are | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
going to do right now and your game strategy. It's really important, | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
especially for Jo, that she focuses on her game plan and what she needs | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
to do, not on expectation or the bigger picture. OK. Thank you all of | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
you very much. Amanda, Jo and Miles, thank you. Thank you for your | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
comments about the cash in hand economy. We are expecting this | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
report on the way we work in Britain in 2017 which is due I think at | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
about 10. 45-ish and one thing that will be talked about is the cash in | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
hand economy potentially clamping down on that. Kenneth said I lived | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
and worked in the USA, their tax office have a formula on the website | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
with a section where you reply to the end, they'll tell you whether | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
you are self-employed or employed. If they say you are employed, the | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
owner of the company can go to jail. Frank says at last someone wants to | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
do something about cash in hand, I've been saying this for years, the | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
Labour Party bang on about the drum of the 1% rich and more escape tax | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
at the lowernd time and again. Self-employed one man bands ask are | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
you paying by cash or cheque. That doesn't mean they are not paying tax | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
on the cash but potentially might not be. Julian as a supply teacher | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
working through an umbrella says, I pay both employees national | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
insurance and employers national insurance. This cannot be right. I | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
have taken this up with them in the past but I just get to bed off. | :29:04. | :29:05. | |
Thank you for those. Today is world population day. | :29:06. | :29:21. | |
The global population stood at a little over five billion in 1990, | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
it's now more than half that again, measuring 6.7 billion. So where is | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
it growing fastest and will it ever slow down. We have taken a look at | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
the numbers. That was a global look at the | :29:33. | :30:56. | |
numbers on world population though. Coming up... Should your child be | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
marked down on technicalities at school, including the size of shape | :31:01. | :31:08. | |
of semi-colons and commas. Teachers have complained pupils have been | :31:09. | :31:15. | |
unfairly marked down. Plans to double the number of our speakers | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
are being announced today. The Government wants double the number | :31:18. | :31:25. | |
to be using the language by 2050. With the news, here's Joanna Gosling | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
in the BBC Newsroom. An end to cash-in-hand jobs | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
and changing the rules on the minimum wage are just two | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
of the recommendations in a major The study, led by a former adviser | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
to Tony Blair, Matthew Taylor, recommends that people working | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
in what's known as the gig economy, where workers get paid per task, | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
should receive new legal protections There is a problem about the quality | :31:46. | :31:47. | |
of work amongst lower paid, What we have to do is | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
tackle exploitation. There are too many people who suffer | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
one-sided flexibility - their employers have | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
lots of flexibility, They are insecure, they do not feel | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
they have a voice at work. President Trump's eldest son | :32:02. | :32:09. | |
is facing further allegations about a meeting he held | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
with a Russian lawyer The New York Times says | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
Donald Trump Junior was informed in advance by email | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
that the information offered by the woman was part | :32:22. | :32:23. | |
of a Russian government effort The Senate Intelligence Committee | :32:24. | :32:25. | |
says it wants to speak to him A body has been found by police | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
searching for 12-year-old Owen Jenkins who fell | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
into the River Trent in Nottingham. A family member said the schoolboy | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
was a hero who had gone in to save a female friend | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
who was struggling. Nottinghamshire Police | :32:44. | :32:45. | |
said in a statement, "Our thoughts are with the family | :32:46. | :32:47. | |
during this time." An American military aircraft has | :32:48. | :32:52. | |
crashed in the state of Mississippi, It crashed about 100 miles north | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
of Jackson, the state capital. Officials say all 16 victims | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
were on the Marine Corps aircraft A day after the Iraqi Prime Minister | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
declared victory in the battle to retake Mosul from so-called | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
Islamic State, Amnesty International says the fighting has been | :33:09. | :33:11. | |
catastrophic for civilians. It has accused so-called | :33:12. | :33:14. | |
Islamic State of using human shields and says Iraqi and coalition forces | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
fail to take adequate precautions It is calling for an independent | :33:20. | :33:22. | |
commission to investigate That is a summary. Join me at 11. | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
And some sport. Two British players | :33:27. | :33:44. | |
are through to the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon singles | :33:45. | :33:46. | |
for the first time in 44 years. So, can Johanna Konta go one better | :33:47. | :33:49. | |
by reaching the last She takes on the number two seed | :33:50. | :33:51. | |
Simona Halep, after a really tough three-set win over | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
Caroline Garcia yesterday. Andy Murray isn't back | :33:56. | :33:57. | |
in action until tomorrow. But there'll be no third Wimbledon | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
title for Rafa Nadal. He was beaten | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
in a near five-hour epic Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says | :34:05. | :34:06. | |
he expects Alexis Sanchez to sign He says the striker hasn't | :34:07. | :34:16. | |
told him he wants to leave, Sanchez has a year left | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
on his current deal. And British and Irish Lions prop | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
Kyle Sinckler has apologised after he was arrested during a night | :34:27. | :34:28. | |
out in Auckland, following the drawn Police said a man was placed under | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
arrest but not charged That is all from me. Back to you, | :34:33. | :34:49. | |
Victoria. Right, this is interesting. | :34:50. | :34:51. | |
A row has broken out over the marking of this year's primary | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
school tests after teachers complained that pupils had been | :34:55. | :34:56. | |
unfairly marked down on technicalities, including the size | :34:57. | :34:58. | |
and shape of their commas and semi-colons. | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
Using the hashtag #SATsshambles, teachers pointed out multiple | :35:04. | :35:10. | |
examples of inconsistencies in marking of key stage 2 Sats tests | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
for 10 and 11-year-olds and urged all schools to go | :35:17. | :35:19. | |
through their pupils' marked papers in detail | :35:20. | :35:20. | |
Let us have a look at some examples. The answer is correct, but the M | :35:21. | :35:32. | |
comes slightly out of the box. Look at that. The pupil has been given no | :35:33. | :35:40. | |
marks. That seems very harsh to me. What do I know? Next example. Too | :35:41. | :35:48. | |
hide, semi-colon, even though it is in the correct place -- too high. | :35:49. | :35:58. | |
The semi-colon is... Wow. That pupil has been given zero marks. The third | :35:59. | :36:06. | |
example... The comma is low but it is in the correct place. No marks | :36:07. | :36:13. | |
awarded. That is really tight, isn't it? | :36:14. | :36:15. | |
We can speak now to Brian Walton, primary school head teacher | :36:16. | :36:18. | |
He's been a headteacher for 15 years and is deeply concerned | :36:19. | :36:22. | |
What do you think? It is not hard to say what I think. It is just... How | :36:23. | :36:36. | |
many adults at there can use semi-colons already? The children | :36:37. | :36:39. | |
are using them in the right place and they are being marked wrong | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
because it is too big or the dot is above the letters. Ridiculous, | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
absolutely... What kind of impact does it have on a child when they | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
are marked down, when they get zero, when they have got the correct | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
answer? How would anybody feel if they are getting the correct answer | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
but they are being told it is wrong? It is in just, it is wrong. Also, | :37:05. | :37:13. | |
this is very high stakes, accountable tests. The schools are | :37:14. | :37:17. | |
judged on how they do in these tests. I have been a leader, I | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
support schools up and down the country, headteachers lose their | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
jobs if the results are not good enough, it as that. High-stakes. Who | :37:26. | :37:35. | |
marks the ten one? Pearson. What, sorry? Pearson. The markers are | :37:36. | :37:42. | |
trained and given the role, but I think it goes through Pearson. I do | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
not know enough at this stage. I will. That is all right. The markers | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
have guidelines which suggests that if the letter is slightly out of the | :37:53. | :38:00. | |
box... Yeah, absolutely. This is the controversy going on under the hash | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
tag at the moment. The markers said none of the schools knew about it so | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
a lot of the guidance about the size and shape and the orientation and | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
how we form letters, we did not know that. Already, in year six, we are | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
narrowing the curriculum to make sure children get the standards | :38:21. | :38:25. | |
because the standards are such high stakes. At the same time, this | :38:26. | :38:34. | |
almost Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy marking is going on | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
behind-the-scenes. If you had the guidance that if the semi-colon is | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
too high, they might get a zero, you would have said, lower the | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
semi-colon? We would, but again, there has to be an ethic about if | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
the child can use the semi-colon... Use it technically. Remember, they | :38:55. | :39:06. | |
are putting written by semi-colons, we are getting pernickety when we | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
are getting to that level. We sure are. What do you want to be done | :39:11. | :39:16. | |
about it? First and foremost, there needs to be a review and we need to | :39:17. | :39:19. | |
really look at what has happened this year. We do not know the scale. | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
It has happened on Twitter at the moment. It is an echo Chamber of a | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
small group. I have 50, 60 heads who have contacted me who are outraged. | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
Everyone of them has examples of this, including myself. One of my | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
children has marked wrong. He has written the spelling correctly, but | :39:38. | :39:44. | |
there is too much of a gap between two letters. There needs to be a | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
review of this. I am going to gather their heads together and work with | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
other organisations, very positively. I believe in testing and | :39:53. | :39:58. | |
accountability, but when it is this high-stakes and people's jobs are on | :39:59. | :40:05. | |
the line, something has to change, so we need to review this, seriously | :40:06. | :40:12. | |
take a look at it. Re-marking, are you suggesting, for some of the | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
children marked down perhaps unfairly? What is the purpose of | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
Sats? If we are thinking about children in year six going into year | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
seven, we want the children to have the best knowledge and skills they | :40:26. | :40:30. | |
can for secondary school. They roughly get ?50 million a year, I do | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
not know how much they... How can we have an assessment system working | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
for children, parents, schools? At the moment, what is Sats about? It | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
is about the accountability of primary schools. Thank you very | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
much. Brian Walton, headteacher of a primary school. This statement from | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
Pearson, the company who has done the marking, marking quality is | :40:57. | :40:58. | |
extremely important and something we monitor continuously. In the unusual | :40:59. | :41:04. | |
circumstances that there is an error, there is a review process in | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
place which ensures a fair and transparent system and enables | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
Pearson to correct any discrepancies and ensure pupils receive a fair | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
mark. If you have any examples, do let me | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
know. One year after taking office, Theresa May will make her first | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
major speech since losing her majority at the general election. | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
Norman, how important is this for Mrs May? Welcome to relaunch | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
country, this is where Theresa May is going to try to kick-start her | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
premiership, get the fight but going after the duffing up she had at the | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
hands of the electorate which has left her pretty bruised and | :41:49. | :41:52. | |
battered, it has left the party wondering whether they want to carry | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
on. -- carry on with her. Today she will make her pitch for why she | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
should continue as Prime Minister. Her argument will be this. She is | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
not just focused on Brexit, but there are a whole load of other big | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
issues which successive governments have dodged. Things like social | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
care, an obvious one. Employment rights, we will be hearing a lot of | :42:17. | :42:19. | |
that today. A new industrial strategy. All of the big areas which | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
a lot of governments have looked at and said, I cannot deal with that. | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
She is going to face up to those problems and I want the help of the | :42:30. | :42:32. | |
opposition parties in trying to push through on these things after years | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
when successive governments have filed them in the two difficult | :42:37. | :42:43. | |
draw. The thinking is to say to the troublesome backbenchers who are | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
thinking, we have to get rid of her. Look, I have an agenda that goes on | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
four years, I am not just about Brexit, I am not just going to be | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
here for a few months, I have a serious, long-term agenda, and the | :42:58. | :43:00. | |
hope is it will give her a sense of momentum, purpose, and maybe the | :43:01. | :43:04. | |
backbenchers will think, OK, she clearly has a lot she wants to do, | :43:05. | :43:15. | |
she has energy, ideas. We will carry on with Theresa May. You have to | :43:16. | :43:18. | |
say, it is a big ask because whenever you find clusters of Tory | :43:19. | :43:20. | |
MPs together, they are invariably talking about, can Theresa May | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
survive? A lot of people take the view her authority has been so badly | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
dented by the miscalculation over the general election, the real | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
battle she faces ahead with Brexit, that actually, perhaps, they would | :43:34. | :43:36. | |
be better getting someone else. Today is a attempt to shore up the | :43:37. | :43:42. | |
premiership to try to ensure she stays Prime Minister. She is also | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
going to be addressing workers' rights and the gig economy, isn't | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
she? That is one of the big issues she wants to tackle because the | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
world of work has changed massively in the last five, ten years. We no | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
longer work nine to five, work for a company all your life. People flit | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
around, different jobs, people want more flexibility. We have seen an | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
explosion in the so-called gig economy. The difficulty is, it is a | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
sort of twilight area. People who work for companies like Uber, they | :44:16. | :44:23. | |
are not quite self-employed, they do not have complete control, but they | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
are not really employees. They do not have to turn up at 9am and leave | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
at five. They have a rather vague area. Today we will hear this plan | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
from the man who used to be Tony Blair's big brains, Matthew Taylor, | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
who has come up with is this idea of a new category of worker called | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
dependent contractor and what that will mean is for those people who | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
work for people like Uber, they will gain some of the rights, not all, of | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
employees. They would in future be able to get sick display, holiday | :44:56. | :45:02. | |
pay, potentially the minimum wage. After a year or so, if they had been | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
on is there a contract, they would be able to ask the company to give | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
them a proper full-time contract -- if they had been on a zero hour | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
contract. It is trying to give those more protections. The big snout, I | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
think, is this. Will it actually happen? I say that because looking | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
at the advanced transcripts of Mrs May's speech, a lot of it seems to | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
be about setting benchmarks for companies and I am not entirely sure | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
that there will be legislation to actually make this happen. But we | :45:37. | :45:40. | |
will find out when she speaks. Thank you. | :45:41. | :45:43. | |
Plans to almost double the number of Welsh speakers are being | :45:44. | :45:46. | |
announced with the country's First minister urging the nation to "take | :45:47. | :45:49. | |
The aim is to get a million people speaking Welsh by 2050. | :45:50. | :45:56. | |
In the last Census there were 562,000 Welsh speakers. | :45:57. | :45:58. | |
Under the new proposals there will be an expansion | :45:59. | :46:01. | |
of Welsh speaking nurseries, and an increase in the number | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
of teachers for primary and secondary schools. | :46:05. | :46:06. | |
At the moment there are 391 Welsh speaking primary schools and 23 | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
secondary schools The hope is that 70 percent of children leaving | :46:12. | :46:17. | |
So how important is it that the Welsh language | :46:18. | :46:23. | |
Meri Huws is the Welsh Language Commissioner and Ragsy is a singer | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
who who has appeared on the TV programme The Voice, | :46:30. | :46:32. | |
Freddie Greaves is a dad whose kids are in the Welsh-speaking stream. | :46:33. | :46:48. | |
Mari, tell us why you think this is important? We are a by Lang wall | :46:49. | :47:00. | |
country. Bilingual country. In Wales, the use of the language is | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
enhanced in public service, in business, and we really need to | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
enable young people to respond to that channel, to be there, to be | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
part of the workforce -- part of that challenge. To be part of this | :47:14. | :47:19. | |
fascinating journey we are on, creating a bling wall country where | :47:20. | :47:23. | |
the Welsh language is part of everyone's lives in the community in | :47:24. | :47:27. | |
Wales, across Wales and I think that's such a wonderful challenge. | :47:28. | :47:30. | |
This strategy is setting that journey very, very clearly for us. | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
So you are saying there are economic benefits as well as cultural? There | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
are cultural benefits and economic benefits. I speak regularly to | :47:40. | :47:48. | |
employers who're looking for bibilingual workers who could | :47:49. | :47:51. | |
contribute to their companies and we should celebrate the fact that it's | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
very much part of our iedification in Wales and we should be | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
celebrating that and using that economically to exhibition benefit | :48:01. | :48:09. | |
to cultural and social benefit. Hello, Ragsi, how are you? I'm good | :48:10. | :48:12. | |
thank you very much, how are you? Yes, I'm good thank you. Why are you | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
learning to speak Welsh and can you answer in Welsh? I'm trying to. I've | :48:18. | :48:25. | |
only just started in the last couple of weeks learning Welsh so... | :48:26. | :48:35. | |
Skaps he speaks Welsh. Skaps I'm a very passionate Welshman. It's | :48:36. | :48:43. | |
one of those things I've thought about and thought it's never too | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
late in life to learn. I wanted to perform in my native tongue being a | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
Welshman to and to sing with a choir so I ended up releasing a song on St | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
David's Day called Fields at Home. It spurred me on and I became even | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
more passionate to learn the language and hopefully perform more | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
in Welsh as well. Do you mind me asking how old you are? I'm 38. It's | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
interesting that you say you are never too old to learn. Let me bring | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
in Freddie. Two of your children are in the Welsh stream at your school. | :49:21. | :49:23. | |
It's much easier to learn a language when you are young isn't it because | :49:24. | :49:27. | |
your brain is absorbing much more, but how is it going for your | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
children, Freddie? Great. My six-year-old was showing off to me | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
this week that he knows more Welsh than me now so that's great. I was | :49:36. | :49:44. | |
brought up in a part of Wales where there wasn't access to Welsh | :49:45. | :49:47. | |
education so I always felt I missed out on some of the cultural heritage | :49:48. | :49:52. | |
and access. Is that the motivation for you? Was it your kids who wanted | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
to learn Welsh or were you saying I missed out and partly want to live | :49:58. | :50:05. | |
my life through you? They started in the nursery setting and at that | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
point they hadn't formed any opinions on the benefits of | :50:10. | :50:20. | |
bilingualism, but they enjoy it and my daughter enjoys singing in Welsh. | :50:21. | :50:26. | |
I am going to ask Ragsi to sing in Welsh in a moment. Mari, how worried | :50:27. | :50:33. | |
are you about potentially the Welsh language dying out, in Welsh, | :50:34. | :50:35. | |
please? I'm not worried. I'm seeing a new | :50:36. | :50:43. | |
confidence. I think we have just heard that in the two other | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
speakers. Those young people, those children learning Welsh today will | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
be our workforce of the future, our doctors, nurses, and that's going to | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
be a wonderful opportunity for them. It's not only the culture but | :50:58. | :51:01. | |
they'll contribute to Wales and a Wales which will be bilingual. | :51:02. | :51:09. | |
Ragsi, take it away. I don't know how you can hold your phone because | :51:10. | :51:12. | |
you are on face time and I don't know if you have your guitar with | :51:13. | :51:18. | |
you? I haven't but I would like to thank the guys at the university for | :51:19. | :51:22. | |
helping me in learning this language as well with the Welsh school and if | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
anybody wants to check him out go on www. Learn welsh. Cymru. This is the | :51:28. | :51:37. | |
song I released on St David's Day. I will give you a burst of that. | :51:38. | :51:52. | |
That was absolutely gorgeous, thank you so much. That was an unexpected | :51:53. | :52:30. | |
pleasure at 10. 45 on a Tuesday morning! Thank you! | :52:31. | :52:37. | |
We haven't talked about the sort of musicality, I don't mean the music | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
there, but actually the Welsh language is sort of, I don't know, | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
lyrical a bit, is that fair, Mari, what would you say? The Welsh | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
language is amazing, it's a very old language and yes, that musicality | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
and that was a wonderful performance, thank you very, very | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
much, and if you understood the words you would realise how | :52:56. | :52:58. | |
important the words were and how relevant to what is being announced | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
today. We sing, we celebrate and I think what we need to do more and | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
more is celebrate our Welshness and be proud of it. Ragsi, what is the | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
message of what you have just sung to us in Welsh? The song is all | :53:12. | :53:18. | |
about it feels like home and Wales is such a warm, friendly nation and | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
no matter where you go in Wales, it always feels like home so yes, | :53:24. | :53:27. | |
that's the kind of message that I wrote about in that song. | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
Lovely. Thank you so much all of you. Thank you. Freddie good luck to | :53:31. | :53:39. | |
the children, Ragsi thank you for singing and mari, good luck. Thank | :53:40. | :53:49. | |
you. We were talking about school children being marked down in their | :53:50. | :53:56. | |
SATs. We have a statement. They were being marked down for tiny things | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
like putting a letter outside the box that you are supposed to put it | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
in and a semi colon being in the right place but being a bit too | :54:04. | :54:06. | |
high. The Department of Education says: There are a number of measures | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
in place to ensure schools, Key Stage two, teacher assessment | :54:13. | :54:15. | |
judgments are robust and accurate. Teachers have a statutory duty to | :54:16. | :54:20. | |
ensure the school's judgments are an accurate assessment of pupil | :54:21. | :54:23. | |
attainment. They are encouraged to moderate their judgments with other | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
schools. The testing agency takes any issues with accuracy of schools, | :54:28. | :54:30. | |
teacher assessment judgment seriously. Any concerns about | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
particular schools should be reported to the board so they may be | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
properly investigated. Lots of you have been getting in touch with us | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
about this major review into the way we work in Britain today which we | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
talked about earlier on the programme. One key recommendation is | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
tond the so-called cash in hand economy. The report's author claims | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
cash jobs like window cleaning and decorating with worth up to ?6 | :54:57. | :55:02. | |
billion a year, much of it untaxed. Brian says every week there seems to | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
be a new car wash opening around here where I live. They charge | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
around ?5 per wash and have cars queueing during the dry days, none | :55:13. | :55:15. | |
of them offer a receipt so the money taken is lost from the economy, many | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
of the car washes are manned by non-speaking Europeans. Christine | :55:21. | :55:24. | |
says, I do believe self-employment is being abused by employers or | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
agencies. However, it is an impossible task to assume it could | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
be wiped out at every level. Many start up businesses with limited | :55:33. | :55:36. | |
funds and have started this way such as retaining, not employing salesmen | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
and contractors and it would be interesting how say knocking the vat | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
off for cash for a customer who often insists on this will be | :55:46. | :55:48. | |
tackled. Let us talk to Liz Mayall, chair of | :55:49. | :55:57. | |
Turf Mark, a scheme that signposts people to local reputable firms and | :55:58. | :56:00. | |
trades people. Hi there. Reputable meaning what? These are uniquely | :56:01. | :56:07. | |
firms that have been tested for and checked for three things; they have | :56:08. | :56:15. | |
obviously been checked for their business practices, good customer | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
references but critically, they have been checked for technical | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
competence and Turf Mark is the only scheme of this sort set up by the | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
Government just over ten years ago, it's the only scheme that does all | :56:27. | :56:36. | |
three of the checks. . -- Trust maencht So you don't mind if your | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
tradesmen get paid cash or not? I prefer they don't. You have no way | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
of what happens when a plumber walks into a customer's house and the | :56:46. | :56:49. | |
conversation that goes on, so how do you know? Trust Mark is about | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
professionalism and the trades people we give the badge to, they | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
earn that badge, they don't buy it and they earn it through their | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
professionalism. A key part of professionalism is about having a | :57:04. | :57:06. | |
really good business practice. It's good for the customer, very good for | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
the businesses as well. What about when the customer says, OK, thanks | :57:13. | :57:16. | |
for your quote, how much for cash, meaning, you know, I'll give you the | :57:17. | :57:21. | |
cash, you don't have to bay the VAT and we won't tell anybody? Well, | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
good tradesmen generally will say I'm sorry that's not the way we | :57:26. | :57:31. | |
operate. We will give you a very good quote, we'll be as competitive | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
as we can, we'll give you the benefits of our expertise and we'll | :57:37. | :57:39. | |
invoice you at the end of the process. There are also other | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
payment options available that if people don't want to do it by | :57:44. | :57:49. | |
cheque, an old-fashioned way of doing thicks, you know, but there | :57:50. | :57:52. | |
are other payment options available. OK, and the other payment options, | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
for example include? Well, if you've got a big project, I would certainly | :57:58. | :58:04. | |
say look at ESCRO schemes, Trust Mark has one, that works where the | :58:05. | :58:09. | |
customer puts in the money, you agree a deal between you and the | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
person, you put the money into a scheme and then that money is | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
released at agreed stages when work is done. If the work is not | :58:19. | :58:23. | |
completed, you get the money back for the work that's not been done. | :58:24. | :58:29. | |
Thank you very much Liz. BBC newsroom live is next. Thanks for | :58:30. | :58:30. | |
your company. | :58:31. | :58:32. |