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Adebowale show nod remorse. That is all from us. Now we join our news | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
teams This is East Midlands Today with | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Quentin Rayner and me, Geeta Pendse. Tonight: must do better, much | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
better. Almost half 0 | :00:18. | :00:17. | |
better. Almost half of a city 's secondary | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
schools are placed in special measures. The issues have got to be | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
rigourously addressed. Plus, it has some of the worst | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
waiting times in the country but how is Lester's 0 | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
waiting times in the country but how is Lester's emergency department | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
coping this Christmas? Also: Good news for homeowners as | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
prices are forecast to rise by 10%. And happy to be shown the red card, | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
the 0 And happy to be shown the red card, | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
the Derby footballers getting stuck into Christmas with the kids. | :00:47. | :00:56. | |
Good evening. The biggest shake`up to schools in a generation in | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
Nottingham is on the cards tonight. That's after six out of its 14 | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
secondary schools were put in special measures. And a seventh has | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
been identified as having serious weaknesses. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
The decision was made by Ofsted, the Office 0 | :01:13. | :01:12. | |
The decision was made by Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education, | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
after unannounced inspections of the schools last month. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
In a moment, we'll hear from the Nottingham politician responsible | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
for setting local education policy. But first, this report from our | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
Political Editor John Hess. Pupils arriving at this college this | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
morning, as news emerged that it is one of six secondary schools now in | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
special measures, judged by Ofsted not to be good enough. My daughters | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
are both doing well. The teachers and tutors have always been really | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
good whenever I've been in school, or if they've ever had a problem. | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
They've always seemed to have dealt with it well. I was a bit shocked | :01:52. | :01:52. | |
when we did get the 0 with it well. I was a bit shocked | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
when we did get the letter through saying they were having issues. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
There is concern that standards are not as good as it should be. Are you | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
concerned? Yes, definitely. I think it 0 | :02:09. | :02:09. | |
concerned? Yes, definitely. I think it is possibly a good decision. I've | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
thought about moving my children. Ofsted's action means these schools | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
now going to special measures. Three academies, the others are run by the | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
council. Escaping special measures, Ellis Gilford was judged to have | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
serious weaknesses. Nottingham girls Academy was praised for its good | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
leadership and management. We have been particularly concerned about | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
the outcomes for young people in our secondary schools in the city and we | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
are also very concerned about things like the very poor rates of | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
attendance. Some of the lowest in the country. Special measures means | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
headteachers like Andy Pope `` Andy Gill Patrick will have two submit an | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
action plan to improve GCSE passes. We have to regard this visitation | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
something positive. It is a wake`up call for the city, to say issues of | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
underperformance and underachievement have got to be | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
rigourously addressed. There are far too many parts of the country where | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
standards are not high enough. Michael Gove giving evidence to MPs. | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
We need to get our young children school ready, both at four years of | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
age and 11 years of age. If they do that, we will have a long`term | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
answer, rather than Ofsted coming back next year and the year after | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
and the year after that. This Academy, another of the Nottingham | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
six schools in special measures. But should headteachers also take some | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
of the blame? Headteachers on their own cannot be held responsible. They | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
need the support of the local authority, they need the support of | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
the wider school community. Sadly, at the moment, we are seeing people | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
stepping back from that responsibility. Services are being | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
slashed. The situation is becoming more difficult. The Nottingham six, | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
those schools in special measures, now have two years to turn things | :04:03. | :04:03. | |
around. Let's get more on this from our | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Political Editor John Hess, who's at Loxley House, the headquarters of | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Nottingham City Council. Good evening. | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
Parents, pupils and headteachers from some of Nottingham's best`known | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
schools are now having to come to terms with the idea of their school | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
being in special measures. How has it come to this? How has it | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
happened? Let's get some answers from a politician who is responsible | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
for children's services. David Mellor, six secondary schools in | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
special measures, that is a huge indictment on the standards and | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
policy in the city. It is not a good day for education in our city. This | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
is really concerning, particularly for the families in Nottingham who | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
should have the right to send their children to a good school. And that | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
long`term decline has happened on your watch. It is concerning and | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
yes, it has happened while we've been a local authority, although | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
some of these schools are responsible to government as | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
academies. A lot of this predates the academies programme, doesn't | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
it? Surely, Nottingham Labour have a lot to answer for. 0 | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
it? Surely, Nottingham Labour have a lot to answer for. Nottingham Labour | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
have seen an improvement in standards. We've improved standards | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
considerably over 15 years we've been in charge. The rate of | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
improvement has slowed. We are seeing gaps whitening and we need to | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
do something about it. Some parents tonight will be thinking, who | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
carries the cam, who takes responsibility and should head roll? | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Should your head roll? The problem is that it is not clear for parents. | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
The council has some responsibilities. What is clear is | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
good schools are not to do with the governments form. There are about | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
good leadership, good teaching. You are a former teacher yourself. I | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
am, yes. Should teachers carry the can? Teachers share responsible at | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
it, along with governors, as does government. Some of the reports talk | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
a lot about poor attendance and obviously parents have the biggest | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
responsibility about getting their children to school. Thank you very | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
much indeed. In our later programme, after the main Ten O'Clock News, | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
what is the way ahead? We will be hearing from the leader 0 | :06:27. | :06:26. | |
what is the way ahead? We will be hearing from the leader of | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Nottingham City Council. Plenty more to look forward to on | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
the programme as we unravel the real meaning behind some of our festive | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
traditions. And it involves Carol exploring the horticultural side of | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
Christmas. It is one of the major sites of | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
Christmas but it is not the only evergreen that we use at this time | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
of year. Find out which other plans also play a part in festive | :06:51. | :06:51. | |
celebrations. `` plants. Leicester's accident and emergency | :06:52. | :07:01. | |
department is among the worst in the country for waiting times. New | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
figures from NHS England show that in the first week of this month only | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
73% of patients were seen within four hours. | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
The target is 95%. Our reporter Eleanor Garnier has been given rare | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
access to the department, where doctors told her there isn't the | :07:15. | :07:26. | |
space to cope with demand. It is nonstop here, at Lester's | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
emergency department. 540 patients came in yesterday alone. 71`year`old | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
Sylvia is feeling faint and she has done the right thing. Rather than | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
coming straight to accident and emergency this morning, she went to | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
the drop`in centre first. Doctors then sent her here for further | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
tests. Surprised really. I've got to go to hospital and have hours and | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
hours of waiting. I am now waiting to go on to the ward. It's very | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
good. But Sylvia is one of the lucky ones. 0 | :08:02. | :08:02. | |
good. But Sylvia is one of the lucky ones. Waiting 0 | :08:03. | :08:02. | |
good. But Sylvia is one of the lucky ones. Waiting times here are among | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
the worst in the country. We are seeing huge forelimbs of patients | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
attending in blocks out of hours. It is very difficult to reliably | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
predict how that is going to happen and staff for it. You cannot staff | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
for 100% predicted attendance. It is hard. Lester's emergency department | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
was designed for around 100,000 patients. In fact, 160,000 people | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
are brought through these doors every year. And now, to help cope | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
with rising patient numbers, they are building a new emergency | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
department that will open in 2015. In three years time, we will be in a | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
much better position. What we need to do this year and next is | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
concentrate on short term actions, recruiting more doctors. We have | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
recruited 200 more nurses. We also need to ensure that the internal | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
processes more more effectively. That involves working | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
collaboratively with GPs and seeing whether it is suitable for patients | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
to be discharged earlier. I think the system needs a major overhaul. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
We clearly are not treating patients effectively. More people are coming | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
to hospital than they should be. More people are staying in hospital | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
longer than they should do. Waiting times here have improved over the | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
last week. The question all patients will be asking, canned trend | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
continue? An inquiry's underway into the death | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
of a Derby man who was about to leave prison to go to court. 0 | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
of a Derby man who was about to leave prison to go to court. The | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
Ministry of Justice says 46`year`old Wayne Moore was due to be taken from | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Nottingham prison to a court in Derby, when he fell ill in the back | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
of a prison van on Monday morning. He was taken to hospital but died. | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
The Independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman is | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
investigating. Leicester City Council is to give | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
more than a thousand of its lowest paid workers an extra 20 pence an | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
hour in line with the so`called Living Wage. Last month it was | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
announced in Nottingham that the Living Wage, which is not enforced | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
by law, would go up to seven pounds 65 an hour. Leicester City Council | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
says it hopes other employers in the city will follow its lead in | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
adopting it. The pay rises will cost the authority ?80,000 a year. | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
Next tonight, experts have been suggesting for some time there's | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
evidence of a strong recovery taking place in the region's housing | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
market. Construction of new homes is booming and sales surging. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Now, a survey predicts that house prices could rise by a massive 10% | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
in the next year in the East Midlands. That's the biggest | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
increase outside London. This estate agent's window sums up | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
the housing market. Demand is there, the supply isn't. Inevitably, prices | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
will go up. This estate agent in Nottingham says sales have been so | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
strong, 0 Nottingham says sales have been so | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
strong, there is not enough houses left on the market for buyers. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
According to the Royal institution of chartered surveyors, the East | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
Midlands could experience the biggest boom outside of London next | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
year. It is true to say that we have traditionally been slightly cheaper | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
in the market so we are starting from a lower base. We are playing | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
catch`up to a degree. It depends... People feel more secure in their | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
jobs. It is long overdue, I think. It is predicted that house prices | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
could rise by 10% over the next year. At the moment the average | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
house price in England is ?250,000. In the East Midlands, it is 176,000. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
In the last year, we've seen that grow by ?5,000. But if the 10% rise | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
does happen, it could see the cost of an average East 0 | :11:53. | :11:53. | |
does happen, it could see the cost of an average East Midlands home | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
increase to around ?193,000 by this time next year. So, who would that | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
be good for? Hopefully, if it goes up and we sell ours, it would be | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
beneficial to us. For my son and daughter, it will affect them | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
putting a deposit down for theirs. Definitely not going to be able to | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
afford to buy a house, and I? How to stay in private rented. There is no | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
chance that I can buy in the future. It's horrible. Sellers will make | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
more money but like all buyers, they will have to find more to buy | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
another property. Although first`time buyers could benefit if | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
they snap up a property sooner rather than later. They are having | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
to find bigger mortgages at a time when deposits are still hard to save | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
for. I think prices have levelled off and are showing signs of rising, | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
now is the time they should be committing themselves to a purchase. | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
Even with new construction of private homes taking place, there is | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
still a belief that demand will outstrip supply for months to come. | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
Derby City Council's decision to charge people for brown bin | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
collections has been branded a disaster by opposition councillors, | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
after just 3% of the city's households signed up. The Labour`run | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
authority has introduced a ?40 charge for any garden waste | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
collected from April next year. It hopes the move will save it a | :13:15. | :13:26. | |
million pounds. But Conservative councillors say the low take`up | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
shows the plan is unsustainable. The government's to give an extra | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
?60 million to provide free childcare for young children in the | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
East Midlands. It hopes the money will nearly double the number of | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
two`year`olds with access to free care, from 12,000 to 23,000. From | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
September next year, councils will be urged to use existing facilities | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
to provide childcare from 8am till 6pm. The government will also give | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
?10 million to help schools provide free meals to all infants. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
More people are expected to fly out of East Midlands Airport this | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
Christmas than at this time last year. Airport officials say 110,000 | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
passengers could travel over the festive period. That's a 5% increase | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
on 2012. The top destinations include Tenerife | :14:11. | :14:12. |