:00:10. > :00:16.Tonight, failed by school authorities. A woman abused by her
:00:17. > :00:20.teacher for years is awarded compensation. Kettering General
:00:21. > :00:25.Hospital goes into special measures over concerns about safety and
:00:26. > :00:26.management. The latest on the Easter weekend weather is coming up later
:00:27. > :00:30.at the end of the programme. A woman groomed and abused
:00:31. > :00:35.by her teacher from the age of 15 has been awarded more than half
:00:36. > :00:39.a million pounds in compensation. Cambridgeshire County Council,
:00:40. > :00:43.who ran the school she attended, had allowed her abuser to carry
:00:44. > :00:45.on teaching despite previous allegations against him,
:00:46. > :00:52.and warnings from social workers. Noel Phillips has her story
:00:53. > :00:55.and a warning, the report does contains some graphic descriptions
:00:56. > :00:59.of the abuse. Abigail, which is not her real name,
:01:00. > :01:02.was just 15 when she says she was A man who she claimed used his
:01:03. > :01:09.profession as a cover to sexually On several occasions,
:01:10. > :01:15.you tied me to a radiator with a dog collar and
:01:16. > :01:19.told me not to move, For the first three years,
:01:20. > :01:33.it would happen in the classroom. After five months,
:01:34. > :01:35.he started getting me to go He could get me in the back
:01:36. > :01:39.of the car, sit behind the seat and be covered by a blanket,
:01:40. > :01:43.so when we got to his house, He would drive into the garage,
:01:44. > :01:48.and them I would have to For legal reasons, we cannot
:01:49. > :01:51.name the teacher, but documents show he was
:01:52. > :01:54.arrested in the early 80s after being accused
:01:55. > :01:57.of sexually abusing girls
:01:58. > :02:03.in a school in Cambridge. Afterwards, in the early 90s,
:02:04. > :02:06.a number of chances were missed by the county council
:02:07. > :02:09.to monitor him before he went on to There was sufficient evidence
:02:10. > :02:19.for him to be charged. The most serious offences against
:02:20. > :02:22.children and he's in a position of He is then moved to the school
:02:23. > :02:29.where Abigail is, and if that had been in place,
:02:30. > :02:31.this would have never happened. A social worker had
:02:32. > :02:37.previously written with concerns about the teacher,
:02:38. > :02:40.but despite this, he was still It is either a conspiracy
:02:41. > :02:54.or a cock up. Colin was a Labour
:02:55. > :02:55.county council at the If you look at all
:02:56. > :03:01.the evidence that was around at the time, I cannot see how
:03:02. > :03:05.somebody would have missed it. I just don't know what on earth
:03:06. > :03:09.they were thinking about. Nobody here from Cambridge
:03:10. > :03:12.county council would talk to me on camera,
:03:13. > :03:14.but in a statement they have apologised
:03:15. > :03:25.and have agreed an out-of-court
:03:26. > :03:28.settlement of over ?500,000. The teacher has been banned
:03:29. > :03:31.from teaching for life, but Abigail hopes her story
:03:32. > :03:33.will encourage other Well Abigail's abuse
:03:34. > :03:39.took place in the 1990s and there are now calls to make it
:03:40. > :03:41.compulsory for teachers to report any suspicion
:03:42. > :03:43.of abuse within schools. I spoke to Jonathan West
:03:44. > :03:46.from the group Mandate Now, and asked if things had improved
:03:47. > :03:53.enough in two decades. The law hasn't changed
:03:54. > :03:57.in that time and it's still possible for a teacher to know that
:03:58. > :04:01.someone is being abused and has no legal obligation to report
:04:02. > :04:07.anything to anyone. In addition, I've taken a look
:04:08. > :04:11.at the school's child protection policy and it doesn't
:04:12. > :04:16.clearly say how you should be I believe they have a designated
:04:17. > :04:19.member of staff and there There are guidelines
:04:20. > :04:25.but there aren't any actual procedures clearly stated
:04:26. > :04:28.in the school's policy as to how a teacher would report concerns
:04:29. > :04:31.and how the designated safeguard
:04:32. > :04:35.lead would pass them on. So what would you
:04:36. > :04:37.like to see happen? I understand you are
:04:38. > :04:39.calling for some sort of In just the same way
:04:40. > :04:44.that seat belt laws persuade more people to wear seat
:04:45. > :04:47.belts in cars, we are looking for something called mandatory reporting
:04:48. > :04:49.where those who work with children have a legal obligation to report
:04:50. > :04:52.their reasonable suspicions of abuse so that they get into the hands of
:04:53. > :04:58.social services and can be acted on. Do you think a lack of reporting
:04:59. > :05:01.is down to bad systems and bad procedures or is it down to people
:05:02. > :05:04.being terrified of smearing their colleagues in case
:05:05. > :05:10.it's a false allegation? It is a combination
:05:11. > :05:12.of both but certainly lots of people are concerned with
:05:13. > :05:18.the questions of what if I'm wrong? Because evidence is not terribly
:05:19. > :05:23.clear at the time of an initial report, they think there
:05:24. > :05:25.must be an innocent explanation and In Australia, which does
:05:26. > :05:29.have mandatory reporting there was some very fine research
:05:30. > :05:32.conducted recently which showed introducing mandatory reporting
:05:33. > :05:34.nearly tripled the number of reports and more than doubled the number
:05:35. > :05:45.of children protected. Do you think teachers
:05:46. > :05:47.will take this idea of mandatory reporting well because it
:05:48. > :05:50.is kind of another layer of bureaucracy and what
:05:51. > :05:52.if they get it wrong? What would the repercussions
:05:53. > :05:55.be for them? I'm sure teachers may be concerned
:05:56. > :05:58.about this but the idea of the law would actually be
:05:59. > :06:01.to protect those teachers who do report so that is clear that
:06:02. > :06:03.what they are supposed to do, they are protected
:06:04. > :06:10.from legal repercussions from making reports in good faith, so it's
:06:11. > :06:17.actually a good thing for teachers. Kettering General Hospital has been
:06:18. > :06:20.rated inadequate in a report Their inspectors visited
:06:21. > :06:24.the hospital in October last year, and raised concerns
:06:25. > :06:28.about safety and leadership. The hospital was however rated
:06:29. > :06:32.as good for providing care, A hospital in special
:06:33. > :06:40.measures, its inspection Rated inadequate for
:06:41. > :06:46.being safe and well led. Services for children and young
:06:47. > :06:48.people needing urgent improvement, staff, struggling after growing
:06:49. > :06:56.demands on emergency care. Our A Department,
:06:57. > :06:58.we are seeing from the last CQC inspection in 2014 to now,
:06:59. > :07:00.an additional 1000 patients a month arriving in our
:07:01. > :07:04.emergency department. This is a department
:07:05. > :07:06.that was actually built Staffing, as everybody knows,
:07:07. > :07:14.is a national issue, so we've had to share staff
:07:15. > :07:16.across our escalation areas It is the latest in a line
:07:17. > :07:20.of reports criticising services In special measures,
:07:21. > :07:24.Kettering General will receive external support, its ability
:07:25. > :07:30.to make its own decisions, reduced. As a result of the inspection,
:07:31. > :07:33.they've gone into special measures and that means they'll now get
:07:34. > :07:37.additional support from NHS improvement which is a body that
:07:38. > :07:40.will provide expertise and support. We will go back in the coming months
:07:41. > :07:44.and see if the improvements that the trust is telling us that
:07:45. > :07:46.they've made, if they've Services here under pressure
:07:47. > :07:54.providing care to a catchment of 320,000 people with 600 beds
:07:55. > :08:02.and around 3000 staff. Having been adequate for well led,
:08:03. > :08:04.clearly clearly has This is about processes that have
:08:05. > :08:10.not been in place at ward level and department level
:08:11. > :08:14.and what we've got to make sure, processors are implemented
:08:15. > :08:18.as quickly as we can in accordance with the plan that we
:08:19. > :08:24.agree with the CQC. Despite the pressures
:08:25. > :08:25.that they face, the majority of staff here, inspectors
:08:26. > :08:28.said, are hard-working, What do you think of
:08:29. > :08:35.the hospital, good and bad? Yes, my husband is in there
:08:36. > :08:40.on the Lilford ward, on the cancer ward, and it's
:08:41. > :08:44.been absolutely brilliant. But apart from that, yeah,
:08:45. > :08:48.they are really good. It's a friendly hospital,
:08:49. > :08:53.the staff are very good. A report critical of the hospital
:08:54. > :08:59.for not learning lessons, but Kettering General say a recovery
:09:00. > :09:03.plan is in place. It is an old hospital
:09:04. > :09:07.with a growing population, trying to find a way out of special
:09:08. > :09:10.measures that despite the pressures they face,
:09:11. > :09:16.the majority of staff here, inspector said, are hard-working,
:09:17. > :09:18.passionate and caring. Mike Cartwright, BBC
:09:19. > :09:23.Look East, Kettering. A bank in Milton Keynes has been
:09:24. > :09:26.targeted by ramraiders. Four men wearing balaclavas used
:09:27. > :09:29.a dumper truck to smash into the Metro Bank in Oakgrove just
:09:30. > :09:33.before 4.30 this morning. They escaped with a cash machine,
:09:34. > :09:38.driving away in a dark The bank was targeted in May
:09:39. > :09:43.last year, when money was taken from a cash machine
:09:44. > :09:45.in an overnight raid. It follows a number of ramraids
:09:46. > :09:50.across the region, including one yesterday at a Co-op
:09:51. > :09:52.store in Cambridgeshire. Police are appealing
:09:53. > :09:54.for anyone with mobile phone I'll leave you with
:09:55. > :10:13.the weather from Alex. Hello there. Lots of dry weather for
:10:14. > :10:21.the Easter weekend but it will be much cooler than last weekend. We
:10:22. > :10:24.have clear skies tonight and temperatures expected to be lower
:10:25. > :10:31.than last nights. There could be some patchy frost around. These are
:10:32. > :10:36.the values we could expect in towns and cities. The dominant theme
:10:37. > :10:43.tomorrow is high pressure and this cool north-westerly breeze. A bright
:10:44. > :10:46.start to the day with some clear spells of sunshine. Increasing cloud
:10:47. > :10:51.coming in from the north-west and the chance of isolated shower but
:10:52. > :10:58.many places should have a dry day. Temperatures around 11 Celsius and I
:10:59. > :11:01.like to moderate north-westerly winds. Here is the outlook. Friday
:11:02. > :11:08.is Brighter on Saturday but cloud again
:11:09. > :11:12.on Sunday. Here is Tomasz. Good evening.
:11:13. > :11:13.The weather in