05/04/2017 Look East (West)


05/04/2017

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 05/04/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Educate to rehabilitate - but fewer prisoners are now studying

:00:00.:00:07.

And lowering the targets, why the most serious cases could be

:00:08.:00:12.

And warmer temperatures on the way for the weekend, join me later for

:00:13.:00:23.

all the details. Hello - first tonight -

:00:24.:00:28.

locked up for their crimes - and using distance learning

:00:29.:00:31.

to turn their lives around. But the number of prisoners studying

:00:32.:00:34.

with Milton Keynes based Open University has fallen by 42% -

:00:35.:00:39.

after funding was cut in 2012. There are now just over

:00:40.:00:44.

a thousand offenders Now a new scheme is trying and help

:00:45.:00:46.

more inmates educate themselves out of re-offending as Kate

:00:47.:00:52.

Bradbrook reports. Seminar discussions

:00:53.:01:01.

at the Open University meeting up face-to-face is a rare

:01:02.:01:02.

sight as courses are mainly taught Because of this

:01:03.:01:09.

is the OU is the only university where people serving time

:01:10.:01:18.

in prison can study. I work with people up

:01:19.:01:20.

and down the country,... People like Stephen has spent eight

:01:21.:01:28.

years behind bars for drug related Now he has two masters degrees

:01:29.:01:31.

and is studying a Ph.D. He worked here at

:01:32.:01:34.

the open University. Having a degree means

:01:35.:01:36.

you are more employable, it means that you can then begin

:01:37.:01:39.

to pay back something into society and for me

:01:40.:01:42.

it is a winner all around. The OUl distributes

:01:43.:01:51.

course materials to prisons across the country,

:01:52.:01:53.

up until 2012 much of it was paid for by government grants which have

:01:54.:01:55.

since The university says enrolment

:01:56.:01:57.

numbers have fallen Now with the help of

:01:58.:02:00.

the Garfield charitable foundation a pilot scheme

:02:01.:02:08.

will fund an hundred 50 prisoners per year

:02:09.:02:10.

to Anyone else would have to take out

:02:11.:02:11.

a loan or pay for that course, why The main reason

:02:12.:02:17.

is because statistics have shown time and time again that

:02:18.:02:20.

education does reduce reoffending rates so if we are giving them

:02:21.:02:23.

skills for employment and they are able to help them

:02:24.:02:26.

to change their lives any money be put in in

:02:27.:02:28.

the More than 1000 offenders

:02:29.:02:36.

are studying for a degree, or you is aiming to halt

:02:37.:02:45.

the decline in numbers and make prisoners better prepared

:02:46.:02:49.

for the world outside. The government says in 2012,

:02:50.:02:54.

student regulation changes meant that grants were replaced

:02:55.:02:56.

with student loans These changes apply to prisoners

:02:57.:02:58.

in the same way as everyone else. Earlier I spoke to an ex-offender

:02:59.:03:03.

who's been in and out Noel Smith got his degree

:03:04.:03:06.

on the inside - and has written I asked him if all prisoners

:03:07.:03:13.

could be rehabilitated that way. I am certainly not a one off,

:03:14.:03:23.

I know quite a few ex-prisoners who went down the same route as me

:03:24.:03:26.

and are still out of prison and are still productive or newly

:03:27.:03:29.

productive members of society. I find that people who have been

:03:30.:03:31.

educated in prison and giving training and vocational training

:03:32.:03:34.

and allowed to go beyond the normal basic education in prison,

:03:35.:03:37.

most of those are people We are talking today about funding

:03:38.:03:39.

for higher education in prison, presumably lots of inmates don't

:03:40.:03:47.

have basic qualifications, GCSEs or A-levels, vocational

:03:48.:03:49.

qualifications, so should funding be available all the way

:03:50.:03:51.

through the system? I think it should, really,

:03:52.:03:56.

I went to prison in the 70s when it was kind of de rigueur

:03:57.:03:59.

to educate prisoners, there was a lot of money pumped

:04:00.:04:01.

into prisoner education and our prison population

:04:02.:04:04.

was about half the size it is now After a round 1990,

:04:05.:04:07.

after the Strangeways riot, it then became the case

:04:08.:04:13.

and it is now that if you want to do further education in prison then

:04:14.:04:16.

you must find yourself right to a charity to refund you for it,

:04:17.:04:19.

which I think is wrong. Of course there's only so much money

:04:20.:04:22.

in the pot, isn't there? What would you say to people who say

:04:23.:04:25.

that it should not be spent on any kind of benefit

:04:26.:04:28.

or reward for prisoners? It amazes me that people still think

:04:29.:04:32.

like that, it is not an award, yes it is a benefit to prisoners

:04:33.:04:36.

but it is also of benefit If you are going to educate

:04:37.:04:39.

prisoners who are uneducated and had no schooling and have not education

:04:40.:04:44.

and make the prospect and hope for the future better then surely

:04:45.:04:47.

that would mean there would be less people committing

:04:48.:04:50.

crime against society. Maintaining percent of prisoners

:04:51.:04:51.

will be getting out at some stage, probably living next door to you,

:04:52.:04:58.

and I am sure he would want them to have an education and a job

:04:59.:05:01.

rather than just come out and go back to what they were doing before

:05:02.:05:04.

they went to prison. There'll be a new prison

:05:05.:05:08.

in Wellingborough - after the borough council

:05:09.:05:11.

unanimously approved plans tonight. The existing prison

:05:12.:05:13.

was closed in 2012 - and proposals for the new facility

:05:14.:05:17.

will double its capacity The Ministry of Justice

:05:18.:05:20.

says it will create up The new prison could

:05:21.:05:23.

be open by 2020. An 87-year-old man from

:05:24.:05:28.

Cambridgeshire has appeared in court Brendan Constant is accused

:05:29.:05:32.

of murdering Jean Constant - Her body was discovered

:05:33.:05:36.

at the Poppyfield's sheltered He has been released on bail

:05:37.:05:41.

until a further hearing next month. The East of England Ambulance

:05:42.:05:48.

Service has had its response targets for the most serious calls lowered,

:05:49.:05:50.

so it has more chance It means fewer people having heart

:05:51.:05:53.

attacks or strokes are guaranteed Here's our health

:05:54.:05:58.

reporter Nikki Fox. For a number of years this and meals

:05:59.:06:15.

trust has struggled with response times of a large area and it deals

:06:16.:06:21.

with a huge range of demands. I went out with the crew a few months ago

:06:22.:06:23.

and the calls came literally back-to-back. In 2014 fines of more

:06:24.:06:28.

than ?1 million for missing targets and since then things have improved

:06:29.:06:33.

but not enough to meet the national figure. That is to get to 75% of the

:06:34.:06:37.

most serious colleagues within eight minutes. That has now been relaxed

:06:38.:06:45.

to 16.5%. This has been quite quietly but the trust says it is

:06:46.:06:50.

being transparent. We publish it in our reports, the targets are in

:06:51.:06:55.

there and as he moved into the New Year it is not the law targets,

:06:56.:06:59.

nobody nationally is achieving the standard on a consistent basis. What

:07:00.:07:03.

we are doing and what the commission is expected of us and funders to do

:07:04.:07:08.

is to deliver an average or above average position nationally. Those

:07:09.:07:13.

in favour say it that maxi relaxing the targets is reasonable bearing in

:07:14.:07:16.

nationally. But those against say by nationally. But those against say by

:07:17.:07:22.

effectively moving the goalposts it could make the Ambulance Service

:07:23.:07:25.

look better without things improving for patients.

:07:26.:07:28.

Next tonight, another Cambridge biotech success story.

:07:29.:07:29.

Astex Pharmaceuticals is Japanese owned,

:07:30.:07:34.

and a new breast cancer drug it has helped develop has just been

:07:35.:07:37.

Cambridge is a vital player in this international network,

:07:38.:07:40.

but what will Brexit mean for its future role?

:07:41.:07:42.

It took the team of 25 Cambridge scientists 12 years to make this

:07:43.:07:57.

breakthrough. This robot and a process called x-ray crystallography

:07:58.:08:02.

allowed scientists to define the shape of cancer protein, this

:08:03.:08:07.

discovery has meant a new drug being developed to target advanced forms

:08:08.:08:12.

of breast cancer. It is a statement on the quality of science that we

:08:13.:08:17.

have here in Cambridge, it really is world beating and this is why you

:08:18.:08:22.

have so many organisations, multinational companies who clearly

:08:23.:08:28.

have investment here but also collaborate with companies such as

:08:29.:08:33.

Astex here. The drug has been approved in America. To get the drug

:08:34.:08:37.

into production revolves around different companies working together

:08:38.:08:41.

in sync often based on opposite sides of the world, but here at the

:08:42.:08:45.

Cambridge science Park just up the road there is a chemical technology

:08:46.:08:48.

firm which also has international clients. Johnson Matthey is a global

:08:49.:08:56.

firm providing chemical facilities smaller research firms can afford.

:08:57.:09:00.

We went been in Cambridge because it is one of the biggest pharmaceutical

:09:01.:09:04.

and biotech courts in the UK but also you look so many of our

:09:05.:09:08.

customers are local which allows us to work with him closely but we also

:09:09.:09:13.

work with customers in continental Europe, with customers in Asia and

:09:14.:09:19.

the USA so it is a very global industry. And it is the global

:09:20.:09:23.

nature of this network that does not sit well with uncertainty. What will

:09:24.:09:28.

the impact of Brexit be for the company? Science is an international

:09:29.:09:32.

game so we have scientists from all game so we have scientists from all

:09:33.:09:37.

over the world, in fact that 2% of scientists here in Astex are from

:09:38.:09:42.

the EU. It is important for us to still have access to the best talent

:09:43.:09:46.

wherever that may come from. Whether that is continental Europe or Asia

:09:47.:09:50.

or the Americas. This will be crucial for the firm as it will now

:09:51.:09:55.

be expanding its workforce after this latest pioneering success.

:09:56.:09:58.

I'll leave you with the weather from Alex.

:09:59.:10:06.

Some cloudy conditions across some parts of the region overnight

:10:07.:10:11.

tonight, also clear spells so temperatures made just not low

:10:12.:10:14.

enough for a touch of ground frost. That should be short lived with more

:10:15.:10:18.

cloud coming in from the north by the end of the night. We start the

:10:19.:10:22.

day tomorrow on temperatures of around 8 degrees with a light

:10:23.:10:25.

northerly winds and there will be some areas of cloud through

:10:26.:10:28.

tomorrow, I pressure building in from the south-west but generally

:10:29.:10:33.

quite a bit of cloud, brighter spells and perhaps some sunshine

:10:34.:10:36.

with temperatures climbing into the mid-teens. Tomorrow highs of around

:10:37.:10:41.

13 or perhaps 40 degrees with a light rough westerly wind and that

:10:42.:10:44.

wind direction will continue bringing the cloudy conditions for

:10:45.:10:48.

the rest of the week but into the weekend we change the wind direction

:10:49.:10:51.

to a southerly and that will bring warmer temperatures. The National

:10:52.:10:54.

Weather Service opportunist outlet, and on Friday there will be some

:10:55.:10:57.

areas of cloud around for much of the day, brighter spells but as he

:10:58.:11:02.

gets into the weekend temperatures rising with southerly winds and

:11:03.:11:03.

temperatures in the weekend and we could see the low 20s

:11:04.:11:07.

by Sunday. Here is Darren with the national weather.

:11:08.:11:12.

Hello. The weather has been a big news in North America across the

:11:13.:11:17.

Masters in Augusta, for the first time the par-3 competition was

:11:18.:11:22.

abandoned, the storms moving away and sunshine windy for a while.

:11:23.:11:26.

Temperatures about 17, which is on a par with what we had today in the

:11:27.:11:31.

south-east of Wales, blue skies around here. That's from one of our

:11:32.:11:34.

weather watchers. More sunshine over the next few days. Little or no rain

:11:35.:11:39.

once again, it's looking dry and as we get more sunshine, especially in

:11:40.:11:42.

England and Wales this weekend, it will be warming up. In stark

:11:43.:11:43.

contrast

:11:44.:11:44.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS