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The headlines from BBC Look North this Monday night. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Payment problems continue as some schools say they had enough | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
over botched pay packets and admin errors. | :00:13. | :00:31. | |
This butler was crushed to death by a faulty lift - | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
now the trust that runs Burghley House is fined more | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
And don't forget to join me for that updated weekend forecast. It follows | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
shortly. A school in Lincolnshire says it had | :00:43. | :00:59. | |
to step in to stop one of its staff being paid one and a half | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
five million pounds last month by the company | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
in charge of payments. Serco has been handling finances | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
for Lincolnshire County Council In that time there have been | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
hundreds of mistakes reported. Serco says it's improving, | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
but some schools have had enough. At Monks Abbey Primary School | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
in Lincoln, they expect pupils to make the odd mistake | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
as they learn. But a catalogue of errors | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
by SERCO, the company that handles their payroll, | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
has exhausted the school's patience. I have seen some improvements but | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
the payroll error still exists, it is not an improvement that would | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
allow us to stay with Serco and this month we had an example where one | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
employee was nearly paid ?1.5 million, which fortunately I spotted | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
that when I was working over the In April 2015 Serco | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
began a ?70m contract with Lincolnshire County Council | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
to provide a number of financial Just eight months later, | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
the company apologised following a catalogue | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
of errors with payments. In May 2016, at the end | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
of the first year, the council imposed a one million pound | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
penalty on Serco. Then in November 2016, | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
an independent report found Lincolnshire County Council had | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
rushed into handing over the contract to SERCO | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
who weren't ready to do the job This county council report shows | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
that serco received 221 payroll received in Aug 2016, | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
some of those queries have yet to be resolved and it appears that Serco | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
still hasn't managed to produce its empolyee pay | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
statements for the year 2015/16. Serco are still failing | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
to hit their targets. Although the overall situation has | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
improved the council admits that it is because they have | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
changed the way that success is SERCO told | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
BBC Look North these We do contract bigger | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
than this elsewhere and do them well | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
to We are committed to delivering this | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
contract and quality services. Meanwhile the primary school is one | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
of 13 in the county who have decided to end the contract with Serco and | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
unless the problems can be resolved some of the other 186 schools may | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
decide to follow their lead. the headteacher says there have been | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
so many problems they'd like to use We saw her briefly there | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
in the report, Abi Tierney is a director of Serco and I asked | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
her if they were up to the job. We have 13 schools that have | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
chosen to go with our that have decided to stay with us, | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
because they've seen the So we still run the payroll | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
for the majority of schools Today, Monk's Abbott Primary | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
School says a member of staff was almost paid 1.5 million | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
last month before the error was This is basic Janet | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
and John stuff that you We would have spotted | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
the error as well. We have exception | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
reports that would have picked up anything that was | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
significantly higher than the So how did this get as far | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
as the school then? When you are running a complex | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
payroll with 16,000, there will always be | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
a small number of errors, but the internal control was put | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
in place to make sure they And they do include | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
the school checking payroll. We are committed, we will be | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
there until at least 2020 When these problems | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
going to be solved? much as I love having queue | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
on the programme, you coming on and saying sorry is | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
getting a bit much. I'm sure you don't enjoy | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
the experience either. The staff have worked | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
incredibly hard over the last You can see that in the numbers | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
and we will continue to do that. The trust that runs Burghley House | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
near Stamford has been fined more than a quarter of a million pounds | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
after a butler was crushed Arthur Mellar died in July | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
2014 from head injuries. The Burghley House Preservation | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
Trust had already pleaded guilty to a breach of Health Safety | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
before today's sentencing Victoria Holland is | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
outside the house now. Bred today marks the end of a long | :05:21. | :05:40. | |
process for the deceased's family. He was killed in 2014 when a lift | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
crushed him here at Burghley. The left have been installed in the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
1950s are not serviced since. The trust have now been ordered to pay | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
this hefty fine. Today I spoke to offer's civil partner and he says | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
that money goes nowhere to reflecting the loss of his other | :05:59. | :05:59. | |
half. Described by his friends | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
as generous and kind, Arthur Miller died | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
in Today, his civil partner | :06:08. | :06:08. | |
spoke about the hole I don't know how to | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
carry on without him It's been so difficult | :06:12. | :06:21. | |
since he's gone. Arthur Miller had been | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
a butler at Burghley He died when he tried to free | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
luggage which had got There was no safety | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
mechanism in place and it Today, the judge ordered the charity | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
that runs it to pay a fine of ?266,000 for breaching | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
Health Safety laws. In a statement, the Burghley | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
House Preservation Trust Gerwin says he is grateful | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
to the trust for admitting they were | :06:47. | :07:02. | |
guilty of breaching Health Safety laws, | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
but he said it will not | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
bring his true love back. There's no amount of money that | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
will replace Arthur anyway, or his life, it will not | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
bring him back. hefty is because it reflects the | :07:14. | :07:35. | |
value of the assets of the trust and it could've been higher, ran half a | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
million. However, the judge took into account the fact the trust had | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
admitted guilt in terms of breaching Health Safety laws. They will have | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
28 days to pay that fine and that money goes to the Treasury and they | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
must also cover ?17,000 worth of costs. But the judge said that fine | :07:53. | :08:04. | |
did not reflect the value of Mr Millerlife as well as his civil | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
partner, his brother and sister were in court also and said they were | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
pleased it was over. Thank you. The body of a man has | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
been found at a house Fire crews were called to a property | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
on Main Road in Stickney just before Police say an elderly | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
man was found inside. The actor Colin McFarlane wants | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
all street lights in Lincolnshire to be upgraded to use LED bulbs that | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
use less energy. He thinks that will mean | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
the lights can stay on all Councillors have been turning off | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
thousands of lights to save money If I was a counsellor I would say, | :08:33. | :08:47. | |
why don't you go to Nottinghamshire where | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
they have the lights on? And they're saving money | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
and helping the environment. Go there and have a | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
look at what they're Herefordshire are doing the same | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
thing, your council are doing the same thing, so it doesn't | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
have to be this way. BBC Radio to was the latest national | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
broadcaster to make Hull their home today reflecting the City of Culture | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
status The Jeremy Vine show | :09:06. | :09:06. | |
was presented by Paddy O Connell from the Punch Hotel | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
in the city centre. Plenty of Hull's big names | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
were guests on the show Now for the weather. Conditions look | :09:12. | :09:36. | |
set to be changeable over the next few days. But there is a warning of | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
ice issued, particularly tonight. That sets us up for a dry and bright | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
morning tomorrow. Low pressure in charge. You can see this big area of | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
it with weather fronts and showers spinning around from the south-west. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
It is a week of showers or longer spells of rain, but there will also | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
be sunshine. Quite a bit of rain earlier. That has now moved out of | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
the way. Most of us are dry with clear spells. One or two Micro | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
showers, the breeze will pick up and the main issue will be highs on | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
untreated surfaces. Temperatures in countryside close to freezing. Dry | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
in the morning. Bright with sunshine. In the afternoon, there is | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
the risk of showers spreading him from the West. They will push | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
eastwards into the evening. Afternoon temperatures, quite cold, | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
fairly fresh westerly wind and highs of seven. Showery rain clears and | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Wednesday dry with sunshine. Uncertainty for the latter half of | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
the week. That is the forecast. That is it from us. We return tomorrow | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
morning at 630. Good night. John Hammond has the weather for the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
rest of the country. According to one man-made | :11:04. | :11:15. | |
definition, spring begins in a couple of days, but in reality | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
weather does it own thing at its own pace. This was taken in Midlothian, | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
a funny old day, some lovely rainbows, downpours, burst of | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
sunshine, and out | :11:30. | :11:30. |