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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. |