0:00:04 > 0:00:08More than a million NHS workers in England are offered a pay rise
0:00:08 > 0:00:12of at least 6.5% over the next three years
0:00:12 > 0:00:15It marks the end of tight pay restrictions on NHS workers imposed
0:00:15 > 0:00:18for the past seven years - the Health Secretary said the deal
0:00:18 > 0:00:23recognises that staff have never worked harder.
0:00:23 > 0:00:31The agreement which NHS trade unions have recommended to the members
0:00:31 > 0:00:36today is a something for something deal which brings in profound
0:00:36 > 0:00:40changes in productivity in exchange for significant rises in pay.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Labour said the pay rise was long overdue.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45We'll be asking whether this marks the end of the wider cap
0:00:45 > 0:00:46on public sector pay.
0:00:46 > 0:00:47Also this lunchtime...
0:00:47 > 0:00:50The academic at the centre of the row over the use of personal
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Facebook data says he's been made a scapegoat.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Plastic pollution - the amount in the ocean is set
0:00:55 > 0:00:57to treble in ten years unless action is taken,
0:00:57 > 0:01:00says a major new report.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03And nearly 40 years after the last Papal visit -
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Pope Francis is going to the Republic of Ireland in August.
0:01:07 > 0:01:12And coming up in the sport on BBC News -
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Scotland are set a target of 190 94 victory over the West Indies and a
0:01:17 > 0:01:23place at next year's Cricket World Cup.
0:01:35 > 0:01:40Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43More than a million NHS staff in England, including nurses,
0:01:43 > 0:01:45porters and paramedics, have been offered a pay rise
0:01:45 > 0:01:48of at least 6.5% over the next three years.
0:01:48 > 0:01:53The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the pay rise was recognition
0:01:53 > 0:01:56that staff have "never worked harder" but Labour said
0:01:56 > 0:01:58it was long overdue.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00The plan will be funded by four billion pounds
0:02:00 > 0:02:03of new money from the Treasury.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Wage rises in the NHS have been capped at 1% since 2013 -
0:02:06 > 0:02:10but given the forecasts for inflation, the real terms
0:02:10 > 0:02:13increase over three years from this deal is expected to be small.
0:02:13 > 0:02:19Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports.
0:02:20 > 0:02:25For the past seven years, NHS staff have had a pay cut or frozen. Health
0:02:25 > 0:02:30service unions have argued that the members are chronically underpaid
0:02:30 > 0:02:34and NHS managers have been calling for wage increases to improve
0:02:34 > 0:02:39recruitment and retention and void staff shortages. The Treasury said
0:02:39 > 0:02:45it had found the cash to improve pay rates without taking it from
0:02:45 > 0:02:52elsewhere in the NHS budget.We recognise the NHS is facing unique
0:02:52 > 0:02:56pressures. We see an increasing demand for services. We have set
0:02:56 > 0:03:00aside that money in exchange for making sure that we reform the way
0:03:00 > 0:03:08the NHS is working. An agreement is being reached with the unions which
0:03:08 > 0:03:14is really positive.Most staff have been offered an average of 6.5% over
0:03:14 > 0:03:19the next three years, not covering doctors and dentists, the least well
0:03:19 > 0:03:25off staff would get the highest percentage increases, up to 29% over
0:03:25 > 0:03:30three years. Hospital porters and cleaners, the lowest NHS pay band,
0:03:30 > 0:03:34could see salaries rise from around £15,000 per year to more than
0:03:34 > 0:03:41£18,000 over three years. A £2000 increase in the coming year. Since
0:03:41 > 0:03:46lifting the pay gap for the police and prison officers last autumn, the
0:03:46 > 0:03:49government has been under huge political pressure to do the same
0:03:49 > 0:03:54for the NHS staff. This comes at a price, the Health Secretary has had
0:03:54 > 0:03:57to guarantee to the Treasury that the system of increments, automatic
0:03:57 > 0:04:03pay increase, will be reformed and that the level of sickness among
0:04:03 > 0:04:10staff, rather than patients, will come down. After months of
0:04:10 > 0:04:13negotiations, some unions signalled strong support for the pay offer.
0:04:13 > 0:04:19Some NHS staff welcomed it more cautiously.I personally will do
0:04:19 > 0:04:23quite well out of this offer and those on the lower banding will do
0:04:23 > 0:04:27quite well. But there are some people who won't do as well. People
0:04:27 > 0:04:36I work with. I want everybody to get a good offer today.I'm happy. I'm
0:04:36 > 0:04:42sure it came too late though.Others are sceptical. The GMB union said
0:04:42 > 0:04:47that the average increase was below the predicted rate of inflation and
0:04:47 > 0:04:52should be rejected.Labour asked for more detail. After eight years of 1%
0:04:52 > 0:04:55or a pay cap, the trade unions appear to be quite happy with the
0:04:55 > 0:05:02settlement but we will look at the Devils the detail and where the
0:05:02 > 0:05:07money is going to come from. Let's see the detail on this one.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11Posterity isn't dead or on life-support but the government
0:05:11 > 0:05:15recognises that pay in the NHS has to recover to attract and keep staff
0:05:15 > 0:05:20who do vital work. -- austerity.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22In a moment - we'll speak to our Assistant
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Political Editor Norman Smith who is in Westminster
0:05:24 > 0:05:26but first lets talk to our Health Correspondent Catherine Burns
0:05:26 > 0:05:28who is outside the headquarters of the Unison union
0:05:28 > 0:05:30in Central London - Catherine, how likely is it
0:05:30 > 0:05:34this offer will be accepted?
0:05:34 > 0:05:39That's the big question. That is over to NHS staff. It is the start
0:05:39 > 0:05:44of the consultation which will go on until the end of May and report back
0:05:44 > 0:05:48in June. That's when we find out whether they have accepted it. If
0:05:48 > 0:05:52they have, they will see the money in July pay packets backdated to
0:05:52 > 0:05:59April. If is a really big question. The GMB union is not recommending it
0:05:59 > 0:06:06to its members. Other unions are more positive. Some things will be
0:06:06 > 0:06:10attractive, progression through pay grades. A newly qualified at the
0:06:10 > 0:06:16moment would take seven years to get to the top grade, this would change
0:06:16 > 0:06:22to four years. The sides admit this is a compromise and I asked the
0:06:22 > 0:06:26union Unison what they have compromised on and the answer was
0:06:26 > 0:06:31money. They would have liked more money. The employers would like this
0:06:31 > 0:06:40to be something that
0:06:40 > 0:06:47to be something that the could make the NHS the most desirable employer.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Norman, does this have wider significance, does it mark the end
0:06:50 > 0:06:51for the public sector cap?
0:06:51 > 0:06:58I think it does. To our phrase John Cleese, it is a dead parrot, it is
0:06:58 > 0:07:03no more, it is deceased. The rises burst through the existing 1% per
0:07:03 > 0:07:11year limit, in some cases spectacularly so. Also because of
0:07:11 > 0:07:16the way this is funded. Previously when police officers and others got
0:07:16 > 0:07:20increases above 1%, they had to pay for it themselves. This increase
0:07:20 > 0:07:26will not come from within existing NHS budgets. It will come from the
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Treasury. Initially from Treasury reserves. That comes with
0:07:30 > 0:07:37significant economic consequences and the bill likely to be around £4
0:07:37 > 0:07:40billion, possibly even higher because you can bet your bottom
0:07:40 > 0:07:44dollar the public sector workers will be thinking, if NHS staff are
0:07:44 > 0:07:48getting that sort of money, we want that sort of money, so there will be
0:07:48 > 0:07:52huge pressure on Mr Hammond to hand over larger sums of money. What it
0:07:52 > 0:07:58tells us politically I think is that not that austerity is over, there is
0:07:58 > 0:08:04still plenty out there, but that the government has made a huge strategic
0:08:04 > 0:08:09decision to ease off on austerity. The reason, a simple calculation
0:08:09 > 0:08:15that after eight years of pay freezes, pay caps, people have
0:08:15 > 0:08:21simply had enough.Thank you. And to Catherine Burns as well.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Well, following that news, figures out this morning suggest
0:08:23 > 0:08:25the squeeze on household income may be easing with wages
0:08:25 > 0:08:28growing at a rate just below the rise in prices.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Official statistics showed that average wages grew by 2.6%
0:08:31 > 0:08:34in the three months to January.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36They come a day after figures showing inflation
0:08:36 > 0:08:37falling back to 2.7%.
0:08:37 > 0:08:43Simon Gompertz reports.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47Even if your pay hasn't gone up much, especially in the public
0:08:47 > 0:08:52sector, the average is increasing faster. That's what's happening at
0:08:52 > 0:08:56this London business making beauty products for people with sensitive
0:08:56 > 0:09:01skin, founded by Sarah Brown who has been raising her staff's wages.One
0:09:01 > 0:09:08of our biggest pressures is the tightening in the jobs market which
0:09:08 > 0:09:13we are feeling. Wages are going up, we are a living wage certified
0:09:13 > 0:09:18company, we have always paid more than the national living wage --
0:09:18 > 0:09:24minimum wage and we think it is fair because of the cost of living.
0:09:24 > 0:09:29Effectively, the buying power of our pay has been shrinking but now wages
0:09:29 > 0:09:34are rising by 2.6% on average and are now almost catching up with
0:09:34 > 0:09:40prices. And some people are doing better.We have made sure that we
0:09:40 > 0:09:44have increased the living wage and the minimum wage and people on the
0:09:44 > 0:09:47lowest paid jobs has seen a 7% increase above the rate of
0:09:47 > 0:09:54inflation.There has been a rise in the number of people out of work, of
0:09:54 > 0:09:5824,000, but the percentage of the workforce without a job is down to
0:09:58 > 0:10:044.3%, close to the lowest in years. Here, they have taken on 16 people
0:10:04 > 0:10:08to help with demand, taking the total to 48. That is matched over
0:10:08 > 0:10:15the UK as a whole.The economy has been quite resilient in the
0:10:15 > 0:10:19aftermath of the referendum and the labour market is really prove that.
0:10:19 > 0:10:24The job market is holding up. If people start to feel better off,
0:10:24 > 0:10:28then we should seek consumer spending start to firm up across the
0:10:28 > 0:10:32economy. That was really a bit of a weak point in the UK last year.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36There have been worrying signs, the collapse of Crilly, shops and
0:10:36 > 0:10:41restaurants laying people off. So far, help us come from other
0:10:41 > 0:10:48countries doing well and buying a sports. -- buying our exports and
0:10:48 > 0:10:52giving a boost to jobs and pay.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54An academic who created an app which harvested data
0:10:54 > 0:10:57from 50 million users says he has been made "a scapegoat"
0:10:57 > 0:10:59for Facebook and the consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Dr Aleksandr Kogan said he had no idea the work he did
0:11:02 > 0:11:04for Cambridge Analytica would be used for Donald Trump's
0:11:04 > 0:11:05election campaign.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Facebook says Dr Kogan violated the site's policies.
0:11:07 > 0:11:12Ben Ando reports.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16Worldwide it has 2 billion users. If you are on Facebook and you probably
0:11:16 > 0:11:21are, it has information about how old you are, who you are related to
0:11:21 > 0:11:25and how you might vote. If you were one of 270,000 people who took part
0:11:25 > 0:11:32in a bazaar is to test, that app collected data from you, your
0:11:32 > 0:11:36friends, their friends, to 50 million people for a company called
0:11:36 > 0:11:41Cambridge Analytica. This is that company's boss Alexander Nix
0:11:41 > 0:11:45boasting two undercover reporters that they use that data to send
0:11:45 > 0:11:48millions of targeted messages during the US elections that got Donald
0:11:48 > 0:11:55Trump into the White House. A claim that Facebook strongly denies. The
0:11:55 > 0:11:59app was created by Cambridge University academic who designed it
0:11:59 > 0:12:06for research, not election rigging. My view is that I am being used as a
0:12:06 > 0:12:09scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. We thought we
0:12:09 > 0:12:12were acting perfectly appropriately and doing something that was
0:12:12 > 0:12:19perfectly normal.Facebook says it's been outrage about how it's been
0:12:19 > 0:12:24deceived but Cambridge Analytica says it's done nothing wrong, it has
0:12:24 > 0:12:28suspended its CEO Alexander Nix and said it has appointed a senior
0:12:28 > 0:12:33lawyer to carry out an investigation. Analysts say online
0:12:33 > 0:12:38political campaigning is here to stay.Every UK party is campaigning
0:12:38 > 0:12:42online, buying adverts, profiling the voters they want to reach. They
0:12:42 > 0:12:48are spending the money they need to reach them. The nice thing for them,
0:12:48 > 0:12:52of these kind of advertising tools, is that they can go back to people
0:12:52 > 0:12:56again and again with the same messages to get them across.If you
0:12:56 > 0:13:01don't want to join the trend of deleting Facebook altogether, how do
0:13:01 > 0:13:06you keep your data secure?You can turn your cookies off, you can make
0:13:06 > 0:13:12yourself private, so you data isn't given to the platforms. There are a
0:13:12 > 0:13:18number of steps you can take to be forgotten.United States senators
0:13:18 > 0:13:23are calling for Mark Zuckerberg to appear before Congress.They are
0:13:23 > 0:13:26breathtakingly powerful. They know more about me than me, more about
0:13:26 > 0:13:31you than you.Facebook says that the controversial app would not be
0:13:31 > 0:13:38allowed now. It's believed that a warrant is being sought to enter the
0:13:38 > 0:13:42offices of Cambridge Analytica to search through their files and data.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45The Kremlin has accused the UK of being unwilling to listen
0:13:45 > 0:13:47to Russia's view on the Salisbury nerve agent attack -
0:13:47 > 0:13:49after the British ambassador decided not to attend
0:13:49 > 0:13:51at the Russian Foreign Ministry to discuss the incident.
0:13:51 > 0:13:52Richard Galpin is in Moscow.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Does this mark a stepped-up diplomatic response by Russia
0:13:54 > 0:14:02to the Skripal case?
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Yes, I think absolutely. A major diplomatic offensive by Russia under
0:14:06 > 0:14:09way and the meeting taking place here at the Russian Foreign Ministry
0:14:09 > 0:14:15is a big part of that. About an hour ago we saw a large number of
0:14:15 > 0:14:18ambassadors streaming into the building to hear the Russian point
0:14:18 > 0:14:25of view which is essentially that Russia had nothing to do with the
0:14:25 > 0:14:34poisoning of the scree Powell Noren. --
0:14:34 > 0:14:44they say there is only two explanations that Britain is behind
0:14:44 > 0:14:50the attack or unable to prevent a terrorist attack on its soil. The
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Kremlin repeating allegations that it was Britain behind the nerve
0:14:52 > 0:14:58agent attack. The British ambassador has not turned up to this meeting
0:14:58 > 0:15:03neither have the American German ambassadors. That has also brought a
0:15:03 > 0:15:07rebuke from the Kremlin on Britain. They say that although they have
0:15:07 > 0:15:12thrown out these accusations, they are not willing to listen to the
0:15:12 > 0:15:17answers. One official saying that because there is no dialogue between
0:15:17 > 0:15:21Moscow and London, this case is at a dead-end. It does very much feel
0:15:21 > 0:15:28like the two sides are at loggerheads and it's not clear where
0:15:28 > 0:15:31it can go from from here.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33The suspect in a wave of bombings in the Texas
0:15:33 > 0:15:36state capital Austin has died after he detonated a device
0:15:36 > 0:15:37while being chased by police.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40Two people were killed by parcel bombs, after six separate attacks
0:15:40 > 0:15:41in the city this month.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45Gary O'Donoghue reports from Austin.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48Police closed in on the suspected bomber in the early hours.
0:15:48 > 0:15:53Tracking him down to a hotel north of Austin.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55While they waited for extra back-up, he drove off and then pulled
0:15:55 > 0:15:58into a ditch at the side of the road.
0:15:58 > 0:16:03As the police approached his car, he set off a bomb.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06As members of the Austin Police Department SWAT team
0:16:06 > 0:16:08approached the vehicle, the suspect detonated
0:16:08 > 0:16:12a bomb inside the vehicle.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Knocking one of our SWAT officers back and one of our SWAT officers
0:16:15 > 0:16:19fired at the suspect as well.
0:16:19 > 0:16:24The suspect is deceased and has significant injuries from a blast
0:16:24 > 0:16:28that occurred from detonating a bomb inside his vehicle.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32CCTV in the past couple of days appears to show the man police
0:16:32 > 0:16:35believe was the suspected bomber dropping off a package
0:16:35 > 0:16:39at a FedEx office.
0:16:39 > 0:16:44Police have not named him, they say he is a 24-year-old white man.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Since the beginning of the month there have been six separate bombs,
0:16:47 > 0:16:49five of which have exploded.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Two men have died and half a dozen people have
0:16:52 > 0:16:54suffered serious injuries.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57A number are still in hospital.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Police still do not know the motive for this bombing spree that
0:17:01 > 0:17:04has terrorised Austin for the past three weeks.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07They are also telling the public they do not know where the suspect
0:17:07 > 0:17:09has been for the past 24 hours.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11So there could still be devices out there.
0:17:11 > 0:17:16Gary O'Donoghue, BBC News, Austin, Texas.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19Our top story this lunchtime.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21More than a million NHS workers in England are offered a pay
0:17:21 > 0:17:28rise of around 6% over the next three years.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Coming up - in need of a family -
0:17:31 > 0:17:34the campaign to place more Muslim children with a Muslim household.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Coming up in the sport, jockey Ruby Walsh is ruled out
0:17:37 > 0:17:39of next month's Grand National at Aintree following
0:17:39 > 0:17:47his fall at Cheltenham last week.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55The amount of plastic in the ocean is set to treble
0:17:55 > 0:17:57within a decade unless action is taken, a government
0:17:57 > 0:18:00report has warned.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03The Foresight Future of the Sea study also highlights the threats
0:18:03 > 0:18:06of rising sea levels and warming oceans.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09But it also predicts positive opportunities for the UK to use
0:18:09 > 0:18:13new technologies to cash in on the global "ocean economy."
0:18:13 > 0:18:17Here's our Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21The world is waking up to the menace of plastic in the oceans.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24The report says the best solution is to stop it getting
0:18:24 > 0:18:27to the sea in the first place.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31In the longer term better biodegradable plastics could help.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Plastic waste in the ocean is expected to triple
0:18:34 > 0:18:36by 2025 the report says.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38And that is not all.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40We are also having pollutions from farms,
0:18:40 > 0:18:42pesticides and fertilisers.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46From industry, even from pharmaceuticals.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49The report says all these together are combined to make a mighty
0:18:49 > 0:18:52problem for the oceans.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55But how did things get so bad?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57The report's authors say it is a question of out
0:18:57 > 0:18:59of sight, out of mind.
0:18:59 > 0:19:04Only 0.05% of the open ocean is properly explored.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07They say that must change.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11We have explored the planet, we have mapped Venus,
0:19:11 > 0:19:17Mars and the Moon but we have not mapped our own sea floor.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19It really is time to have a mission to planet Ocean.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21And here is why.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23The seas are industrialising fast.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27The report predicts a doubling of economic activity in the ocean
0:19:27 > 0:19:31with offshore wind leading the way.
0:19:31 > 0:19:36Deep sea mining is also set to boom.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39The report's authors warned that laws to protect the open ocean
0:19:39 > 0:19:44are at risk of lagging behind firms wanting to exploit it.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47There is a continuous process of wanting to look for new things
0:19:47 > 0:19:51we can exploit in the oceans.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54And commerce is out there looking for these things, it is exploring
0:19:54 > 0:19:56and that is happening faster than we as scientists can
0:19:56 > 0:19:59really keep up with it.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01And my suspicion is the legislation is also trying to keep
0:20:01 > 0:20:04up with it as well.
0:20:04 > 0:20:10This is the sort of thing at risk, the extraordinary natural CO2 events
0:20:10 > 0:20:12that I dived to visit in Papua.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Nature's Jacuzzi.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18But even if we ban mining on sites like this the corals that live
0:20:18 > 0:20:22here will still face other man-made threats.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Carbon levels cause two things, rising sea surface temperature
0:20:25 > 0:20:28which stresses corals out and can cause large areas of them to die.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32And it also makes the water more acidic and that slows down
0:20:32 > 0:20:34the growth rate of corals.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38So many threats to our precious oceans, so much opportunity.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Can mankind strike a balance?
0:20:40 > 0:20:46Roger Harrabin, BBC News.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49An error in calculating the main sickness benefit -
0:20:49 > 0:20:57Employment and Support Allowance - could cost the government more
0:20:57 > 0:20:58than £800 million.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01The National Audit Office says the mistakes in how the government
0:21:01 > 0:21:03applied changes have been known about since 2013 -
0:21:03 > 0:21:06but that ministers only started to address the issue last year.
0:21:06 > 0:21:07Michael Buchanan reports.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Lucy Marsh lives at home with her parents.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12The 28-year-old has learning disabilities and though
0:21:12 > 0:21:14she does voluntary work, she relies on benefits
0:21:14 > 0:21:20for any income.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22When she was moved from incapacity benefit to Employment
0:21:22 > 0:21:24and Support Allowance in 2013, officials miscalculated
0:21:24 > 0:21:25what she was due.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29She has now been repaid thousands of pounds.
0:21:29 > 0:21:37Just in time for her to move in to her first home.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40What it means is that in monetary terms, it is a payment
0:21:40 > 0:21:42of just short of £2000.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Which obviously would be very useful to Lucy in the context
0:21:44 > 0:21:46of her moving into this new supported accommodation.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49It will help quite substantially with the furnishings
0:21:49 > 0:21:53and things for the new flat.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Many other claimants will get much more money says today's report.
0:21:56 > 0:22:02The average repayment will be £5,000 per head.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Though some could get as much as £20,000.
0:22:04 > 0:22:12In total 70,000 people are due a backdated payment.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18The whole debacle could cost the Department for Work and Pensions
0:22:18 > 0:22:19as much as £830 million.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21With repayments and higher benefit awards.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Ministers say they are committed to correcting the mistakes
0:22:23 > 0:22:31and are aiming to repay everyone affected by April of next year.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39But while the errors started in 2011 they'll only
0:22:39 > 0:22:40backdate payments to 2014.
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Claiming a court ruling limits liability.
0:22:41 > 0:22:42Welfare advisers are not impressed.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44They were well aware of the legislation before,
0:22:44 > 0:22:46they had it in their own guidance.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48They just failed to follow that.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51And as a result some of the most severely disabled people have lost
0:22:51 > 0:22:53out on thousands of pounds they will never get back.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55For Lucy the repayment will help as she moves on.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58For other claimants who have been underpaid for years,
0:22:58 > 0:22:59their reduced budgets have meant real hardships.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Michael Buchanan, BBC News.
0:23:02 > 0:23:03A man has been stabbed to death at
0:23:03 > 0:23:06a shopping centre in east London.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09The man who was believed to be in his early 20s
0:23:09 > 0:23:11was pronounced dead at the Stratford Shopping Centre last night.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13It brings the number of fatal stabbings
0:23:13 > 0:23:17in the capital this year to 26.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19At least 29 people have been killed in a suicide bombing
0:23:19 > 0:23:22in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24The bomber was apparently heading towards a well-known shrine
0:23:24 > 0:23:26where a large crowd had gathered to mark the start of
0:23:26 > 0:23:28the traditional New Year.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32The Islamic State group said it carried out the attack.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35The Archbishop of Canterbury has said the Church of England needs
0:23:35 > 0:23:38new powers to protect children from abuse.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Giving evidence at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse,
0:23:41 > 0:23:45Justin Welby said church's powers around safeguarding "probably
0:23:45 > 0:23:47needed re-looking at".
0:23:47 > 0:23:53Well our Religion Editor Martin Bashir is at the inquiry.
0:23:53 > 0:24:02Tell us more about what he had to say.This is the third week of focus
0:24:02 > 0:24:05on the Anglican Church and the dioceses of Chichester in
0:24:05 > 0:24:08particular. It was chosen because of the large number of default priest
0:24:08 > 0:24:14who have been since the 1980s. The Archbishop of Canterbury who has
0:24:14 > 0:24:19been nursing a heavy cold, arrived surrounded by a couple of bishops,
0:24:19 > 0:24:24his head of communications and legal counsel. He gave evidence about
0:24:24 > 0:24:2811:15am and one of the most striking moments was when he described the
0:24:28 > 0:24:36experience of confronting survivors of abuse.To read the transcripts,
0:24:36 > 0:24:42to meet survivors is horrifying to a huge degree because you see this
0:24:42 > 0:24:46extraordinary and atrocious willingness to turn a blind eye. Two
0:24:46 > 0:24:56things going very seriously wrong. And entirely damaging human beings.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00The enquiry is currently on a break for lunch. The Archbishop has been
0:25:00 > 0:25:04told he will be expected to give another 30 minutes of evidence
0:25:04 > 0:25:12inside following that, the head Bishop of safeguarding, the lead in
0:25:12 > 0:25:17the Church of England, Peter Hancock, will then give evidence.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20Muslim families in the UK are being encouraged to come forward
0:25:20 > 0:25:21to adopt and foster Muslim children.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Around 4,000 Muslim children are in care
0:25:23 > 0:25:24and the number is growing.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27More than half of them are spending time living in non-Muslim homes,
0:25:27 > 0:25:30which experts say can cause religious and cultural problems.
0:25:30 > 0:25:36The BBC Asian Network's Shabnam Mahmood has more.
0:25:36 > 0:25:44Providing a much-needed home for children who don't have one.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Sha and Shaheen Ali have been fostering for over nine years.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Like them, most of the children they have looked after are Muslims.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55They can associate with the culture and the identity.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58They can feel comfortable that they are getting halal food.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59That they can be supported with their Islamic
0:25:59 > 0:26:02education and knowledge.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05To have an environment where they can pray.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07They can interact with the family and community during
0:26:07 > 0:26:11festivals like Ramadan.
0:26:11 > 0:26:19Issues like having halal food, having an alcohol free house.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Even if they are not drinking, some of them still feel uneasy
0:26:22 > 0:26:23that the presence is there.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27The importance of matching children to the right
0:26:27 > 0:26:30families is all too clear.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32It is so important, the needs of the child are really
0:26:32 > 0:26:34central to the process.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37If you have a Muslim child come into care the vast array
0:26:37 > 0:26:39of their needs be it the Muslim faith, education, health,
0:26:39 > 0:26:43it is so important they find a best match for the foster carer to look
0:26:43 > 0:26:46after that child.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Figures given to the BBC say there are around 4500
0:26:49 > 0:26:54Muslim children in care and the number is growing.
0:26:54 > 0:26:59More than half of them spent time living in non- Muslim homes.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02It is accepted by many that more needs to be done to attract Muslim
0:27:02 > 0:27:06carers to meet this demand.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10The charity has identified religious misconceptions
0:27:10 > 0:27:16for the shortage of Muslim carers.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Their new guidelines are clear about the Islamic position
0:27:18 > 0:27:22on fostering and adoption.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25We found the scholars agreed that it can be obligatory
0:27:25 > 0:27:28from an Islamic perspective to adopt and foster given the dire need
0:27:28 > 0:27:30of Muslim families to foster and adopt in the UK.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32With the number of Muslim children in care increasing,
0:27:32 > 0:27:37more families are needed so young ones can be placed
0:27:37 > 0:27:40in familiar religious and cultural environments.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44Shabnam Mahmood, BBC News.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47Pope Francis has announced he will visit Ireland in August -
0:27:47 > 0:27:50the first papal visit to the country for almost 40 years.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52The pontiff's visit will include celebrating mass
0:27:52 > 0:27:53in Dublin's Phoenix Park.
0:27:53 > 0:28:01Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Page reports.
0:28:03 > 0:28:09The official announcement of a much anticipated papal visit. Irish
0:28:09 > 0:28:14families were in Rome to hear Pope Francis confirmed he was going to
0:28:14 > 0:28:18their country as was lush Bishop of Dublin. It is almost four years
0:28:18 > 0:28:23since the last time a pub went to Ireland.On a hillside nearly 300
0:28:23 > 0:28:31people...In 1979 John Paul II drew massive crowds on a tour which
0:28:31 > 0:28:35featured some iconic moments for Catholics.Young people of Ireland,
0:28:35 > 0:28:44I love you.It was such a sense of excitement and talking about it now
0:28:44 > 0:28:48I can see the helicopter coming up ahead and then I suppose is a large
0:28:48 > 0:28:54group of young people to be affirmed by the Pope with those beautiful
0:28:54 > 0:28:59words.Father Martin McGill was amongst the throng 39 years ago and
0:28:59 > 0:29:02has been reflecting on what the event this year might mean.A lot
0:29:02 > 0:29:08has happened in 30 years, a sense of maybe having to face up to a past
0:29:08 > 0:29:11which at times we did not want to do. But if we are going to get any
0:29:11 > 0:29:16healing and experience any sense of truth, we need to do that.The
0:29:16 > 0:29:18repetition of the Church has been damaged by scandals about child sex
0:29:18 > 0:29:24abuse. And it has been major social change like the legalisation of
0:29:24 > 0:29:30same-sex marriage in the Irish Republic after a referendum in 2015.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32The influence of the Catholic Church in Ireland North and south has
0:29:32 > 0:29:36diminished in recent years. But churchgoing remains more popular
0:29:36 > 0:29:41than in most other parts of Europe. In west Belfast today parishioners
0:29:41 > 0:29:46were delighted about the plans. Absolutely fantastic, if there was
0:29:46 > 0:29:51more people like him it would be a better world to live in. I'm sure
0:29:51 > 0:29:56everyone will turn out and welcome them with open arms.Pope Francis
0:29:56 > 0:29:59will visit Dublin in late August for two days. So far no news as to
0:29:59 > 0:30:03whether he will travel north of the Irish border. If he does it would be
0:30:03 > 0:30:09the first ever able visit to Northern Ireland.
0:30:09 > 0:30:17Time for a look at the weather...
0:30:20 > 0:30:24Get quite cold night and something tells me we are not quite done with
0:30:24 > 0:30:29winter yet as we had towards Easter, it could turn cold again. For the
0:30:29 > 0:30:33short term we have white fine weather around across most of the
0:30:33 > 0:30:40UK. The weather systems are out in the Atlantic lining up and heading
0:30:40 > 0:30:44in our direction. And with that comes a bit of mild air but not
0:30:44 > 0:30:48desperately mild but temperatures still below par for the time of
0:30:48 > 0:30:55year. But a lot better than third to just a few days ago. So today bright
0:30:55 > 0:31:00weather across England and Wales, some rain around in the north-west.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03That continues into this evening. Maybe some showers for the Eastern
0:31:03 > 0:31:07counties of England but on the whole a dry evening and look how much
0:31:07 > 0:31:13milder it is going to be this coming night. Five, six, 7 degrees. So
0:31:13 > 0:31:19tomorrow morning is going to feel a lot different dub in fact when the
0:31:19 > 0:31:24sunshine is out it will feel very pleasant indeed. A fine start to the
0:31:24 > 0:31:32day but once again all that cloud moving in, this next weather front
0:31:32 > 0:31:35approaching on Thursday afternoon. Still 10 degrees in Belfast in spite
0:31:35 > 0:31:41of that. And easily around 12 degrees across the South where the
0:31:41 > 0:31:48sun comes out. The big picture, the jet stream is powerful across the
0:31:48 > 0:31:55Atlantic. And what we will see in the next few days is low-pressure
0:31:55 > 0:32:01riding the jet stream heading in our direction. Most of the brain and
0:32:01 > 0:32:04breeze will go across Scotland and Northern Ireland, maybe even some
0:32:04 > 0:32:10sleet and snow across the hills. But to the South bright weather with
0:32:10 > 0:32:14just a few showers. And that takes us into the weekend, looking a
0:32:14 > 0:32:19little bit mixed. Not guaranteeing dry weather but we do expect a fair
0:32:19 > 0:32:23bit of bright weather around. It is going to be a bit cooler, just a
0:32:23 > 0:32:29suggestion of the wind coming from the north-west. Just about double
0:32:29 > 0:32:33figures across southern areas. So to summarise the weekend, not bad at
0:32:33 > 0:32:40all. Mostly bright with just a bit of rain from time to time.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42all. Mostly bright with just a bit of rain from time to time.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45A reminder of our main story this lunchtime...
0:32:45 > 0:32:48More than a million NHS workers in England are offered a pay rise
0:32:48 > 0:32:56rise of around 6% over the next three years.
0:32:57 > 0:33:03The agreement which energised trade unions have recommended for the
0:33:03 > 0:33:06members is something for something deal which brings in profound change
0:33:06 > 0:33:12in productivity in exchange for significant rises in pay.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15That's all from the BBC News at One -