03/09/2014 BBC London News


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Don't forget Newsnight's st`rting over on BBC Two in a moment.

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Now, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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Good evening, Welcome to BBC London News with me, Alex Btshill.

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There are warnings tonight that London is facing a serious shortage

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Half of all teacher training places in

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It comes at a time when thotsands of extra teachers are needed to

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cope with growing pupil numbers in the capital.

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Here's our education reportdr, Marc Ashdown.

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Last minute prep before terl starts. Beth and will be teaching m`ths in

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Hackney. Telling people she is taking to the classroom is not

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always easy. Teaching in London you get a few sharp looks. Especially

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maths. People tend to share horrific stories from their own educ`tion

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that seem really scarring. She is excited by the challenge th`t others

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are not. Latest information shows potentially large gaps in some

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subjects. 126 courses are on offer in London and nearly half h`ve

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unfilled spaces. In London `nd nearly half have unfilled spaces.

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Inside, chemistry and physics. Out of the 49 specialist language

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courses on offer, 24 are currently not fall. All of this matters

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because we know London needs to find 130,000 extra school places by 018.

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With one teacher per 30 puphls that works out at 4400 extra teachers who

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need to be found. The popul`tion in London will grow dramatically over

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the next years. We have to lake sure we are training in of teachdrs. As

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soon as we get into a spiral where we are not training enough teachers,

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there is a risk that standards go down. What we have at present, if

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you think about traffic lights which are not at red but they are clearly

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flashing amber. The Governmdnt trains graduates and career changes

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through its direct scheme. This map shows how money places have been

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allocated this year. The ardas in right have `` White have between

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zero and 19 trainees. Thous`nds of new recruits attended boot camp in

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Leeds over the summer, 600 heading to London, despite the challenges of

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teaching him. The way that teachers are viewed in this country, we need

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to change that. I do not thhnk teachers are valued. We get a lower

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salary than people who go into accountancy and banking. Inhtially

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it is with London and housing being so expensive. The numbers do not add

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up. Next week the garment is launching this. A wide ranghng

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recruitment campaign, buildhng on the impact of Educating Yorkshire.

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The new Education Secretary is confident she can attract enough

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teachers to cope. Want as m`ny high`quality graduates to go into

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the teaching profession. We are offering bursaries for some of the

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key subjects which we want to focus on, such as science and maths.

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Whatever it is hoped that Nhcky Morgan will improve relations. In

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London, the lack of teachers is fast becoming a classroom crisis.

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Wormwood Scrubs prison has been described as filthy and uns`fe

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Nearly half of inmates said they felt a risk during their tile

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In the last three years, six prisoners have taken

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Our home affairs corresponddnt, Guy Smith, reports.

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Wormwood Scrubs, made famous by film`makers. Now under the spotlight

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again. For its safety record and failing to implement repeatdd

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recommendations concerning suicide and self harm. Since the last

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inspection in 2011, six prisoners here have taken their own lhves and

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the chief inspector 's report says work to reduce violence has been

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poorly resourced and too lilited. Migel in west London holds 0300

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adult prisoners, many on reland Its last inspection found it was

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improving. The prison watchdog has said today's report was verx

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disappointing. When we inspdcted, we discovered that not only had this

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number of prisoners taken their own lives, the responses and

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recommendations that intervhewed had not been actioned. We found some

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prisoners who were at risk of self harm in some pretty terribld

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conditions. One serving prison officer says there is daily violence

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and the jail is understaffed. We have disguised his identity. There

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are more attacks on staff than there have ever been. There are more

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fights between prisoners as well. Any level of violence is

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unacceptable. That view is dchoed by a former burglar and ex`inm`te of

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Wormwood Scrubs. He says it cannot cope with the most vulnerable.

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People say these prisons ard like holiday camps. When did the last

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person commits suicide in a holiday camp? What are we doing to these

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people? What are they doing? They are getting more and more rdsentful.

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Rather than trying to work with them. Angela routinely visited

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Wormwood Scrubs as chair of the Independent monitoring board. She

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resigned last year. From 2001 it got worse. In 2013, I said the prison

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was on a knife edge. They ddnied it and said what we were seeing and

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hearing was absolutely not true The Prison Service says Wormwood Scrubs

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has been to a difficult change process. As the chief inspector

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acknowledges, the governor has taken decisive action to address the

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situation. Safety has been prioritised, supportive honourable

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prisoners has been signific`ntly improved. The report raises serious

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concerns about whether this prisoners doing its job, helping

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rehabilitate criminals so that they are one day save to be rele`sed

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So, I'll say goodbye and hand you over

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It will feel warm tomorrow. I cannot promise it will be sunny all day. We

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have the cloud in fading from the East tonight. It will be a dry

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night. It might turn mystiqte in places. It will not be cold either.

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Temperatures the cloud will thin and rake. Tim Bridges will get to 2

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degrees, possibly 24 Celsius. `` temperatures will get. We c`nnot

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promise sunny skies for the temperatures will get. We cannot

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promise sunny skies for the weekend. Quite a nice day for many of us

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Good evening. Some sunshine around to end the day in the south and

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south-east of the country. Tomorrow, another fine day. By fine I mean

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skies looking something like this. I suspect there will be a little bit

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of cloud at some point in the day. The weather is very settled. An

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enormous area of high pressure stretching from Russia across

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Central Europe and into our neighbourhood here. This is a

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satellite picture from today you can see sunny skies across parts of East

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Anglia and the Sabbath. More cloud the further north you are. Even here

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the skies have broken up. -- the south-east. Through tonight, all we

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will be seeing his errors of cloud floating around. In the countryside,

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it could be quite chilly. In towns and cities, more like their, 14

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degrees. Tomorrow will start off quite cloudy. For a number of us

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across

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