:00:00. > :00:11.said it had been bought by an anonymous bidder.
:00:12. > :00:12.Good evening. Helena Farrell was a troubled teenager,
:00:13. > :00:15.failed by the professionals who should have helped her.
:00:16. > :00:20.An official report by Cumbria's Safeguarding Children
:00:21. > :00:24.Board says her case and the failings identified mirror a similar tragedy
:00:25. > :00:29.Our Chief Reporter Dave Guest has more.
:00:30. > :00:32.Yesterday, a coroner concluded that 15`year`old
:00:33. > :00:36.Helena Farrell killed herself, but he couldn't be sure she meant to.
:00:37. > :00:39.Today, a report outlined the shortcomings
:00:40. > :00:42.of a system that failed to protect her.
:00:43. > :00:45.Cumbria's Safeguarding Children Board said it was
:00:46. > :00:49."baffling" that professionals failed to recognise the mounting evidence
:00:50. > :00:54.She told a teacher she had bulimia, she told
:00:55. > :00:58.a school nurse she had been sexually assaulted, she took an overdose
:00:59. > :01:04.But Cumbria's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, CAMHS, took
:01:05. > :01:09.The day after her first appointment, she was dead.
:01:10. > :01:13.We hope that Helena's story will inspire professionals and
:01:14. > :01:17.non`professional people to reflect on how we all deal with young people
:01:18. > :01:24.In fact, today's report says school`based professionals failed to
:01:25. > :01:27.recognise the escalating evhdence that Helena was at real risk
:01:28. > :01:31.of suicide and it says that Childhood Adolescent Mental Health
:01:32. > :01:35.Service was guilty of poor practice, had a lack of structure
:01:36. > :01:38.and was considered not fit for purpose, even by its own staff.
:01:39. > :01:42.But one charity, Papyrus, which specialises in preventing
:01:43. > :01:47.adolescent suicide, says such problems are not unique to Cumbria.
:01:48. > :01:50.This is a problem for the whole of the country.
:01:51. > :01:53.More and more young people `re being faced with long waiting lists
:01:54. > :01:59.But she wasn't the first person to be let down by the service.
:02:00. > :02:03.Three years before she died, ten`year`old Harry Hucknall took his
:02:04. > :02:09.A safeguarding board recognhsed significant failings
:02:10. > :02:16.We did make changes following the sad death of Harry, but what we
:02:17. > :02:20.now recognise is those changes were not far`reaching enough.
:02:21. > :02:23.We need to make wider changds and have significant investlent
:02:24. > :02:26.Those investments include t`king on additional specialist st`ff
:02:27. > :02:34.in the hope that people such as Helena can be seen more prolptly.
:02:35. > :02:38.The Rochdale MP Simon Dancztk says the former Conservative Homd
:02:39. > :02:41.Secretary, Leon Brittan, should make public what he knew about
:02:42. > :02:46.allegations of paedophiles operating in Westminster in the 1980s.
:02:47. > :02:48.Mr Danczuk was appearing before the Commons Home Aff`irs
:02:49. > :02:52.Committee in relation to thd former Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith.
:02:53. > :02:57.Our political editor Arif Ansari sent this report from Westmhnster.
:02:58. > :03:01.Today Simon Danczuk shifted the focus on Cyril Smith from what he
:03:02. > :03:05.may have done in Rochdale to what he may have done here at Westmhnster,
:03:06. > :03:10.with hints of a cover`up among leading politicians, in particular,
:03:11. > :03:14.Mr Danczuk said that Cyril Smith may have been part of a network
:03:15. > :03:19.of people, protecting each other. He said that Cyril Smith had abused
:03:20. > :03:23.children at a guesthouse in South London with other
:03:24. > :03:29.In neither case did Mr Danczuk name any of these individuals.
:03:30. > :03:34.He did say that back in the 198 s, the Littleborough MP Geoffrdy
:03:35. > :03:39.Dickens had written a dossidr of these politicians,
:03:40. > :03:46.and handed it into the then Home Secretary Sir Leon Brittan and
:03:47. > :03:49.Mr Danczuk wanted to know what they had done with that informathon.
:03:50. > :03:53.I do think it would be helpful for Sir Leon Brittan to share
:03:54. > :03:57.his knowledge of how he dealt with these allegations that were made
:03:58. > :04:02.Well, that's an interesting questhon.
:04:03. > :04:06.We know that it arrived at the Home Office, but we don't know where
:04:07. > :04:11.It has also emerged today that Cyril Smith attempted to put some pressure
:04:12. > :04:16.Two freelance journalists working for the corporation were looking
:04:17. > :04:22.into certain MPs' private lhves and Cyril Smith wrote to thd then
:04:23. > :04:26.Director General Charles Curran saying he wanted to be assured that
:04:27. > :04:31."your expenditure is careful, wise and useful," hints there,
:04:32. > :04:39.He also wrote to the then Home Secretary Merlyn Rees saying
:04:40. > :04:42.that he wanted him to ensurd the BBC wasn't simply muck`raking.
:04:43. > :04:44.It's not clear what Cyril Slith s motivation was here,
:04:45. > :04:47.because he was not one of those being investigated, although he may
:04:48. > :04:50.have feared that he could h`ve been pulled into that, perhaps.
:04:51. > :04:54.One other development here, and that is that Simon Danczuk told
:04:55. > :04:59.the committee today that Greater Manchester Police are going
:05:00. > :05:02.to arrest people imminently as their investigation into what
:05:03. > :05:12.The former Chief Executive of Cumbria County Council w`s paid
:05:13. > :05:15.more than ?400,000 when she retired last year.
:05:16. > :05:18.Details of Jill Stannard's pay`off have just come to lhght
:05:19. > :05:22.The County Council says it's saving more than half`a`million potnds
:05:23. > :05:25.a year through restructuring, but says reducing staff numbers is
:05:26. > :05:31.Thousands of tram passengers in Greater Manchester are f`cing
:05:32. > :05:34.a second day of travel disrtption after weekend engineering works
:05:35. > :05:39.There are no services running through Victoria again todax.
:05:40. > :05:41.Replacement buses have been provided.
:05:42. > :05:45.Metrolink and Network Rail have apologised.
:05:46. > :05:48.There are fresh warnings thhs evening about the dangers
:05:49. > :05:51.of quicksand in Morecambe B`y after a teenage boy became trapped
:05:52. > :05:55.The 13`year`old had been on a fishing trip with his family
:05:56. > :05:59.He was pulled to safety by fire fighters who were
:06:00. > :06:05.The rescue was captured by an amateur cameraman.
:06:06. > :06:08.It must have been absolutelx terrifying for the lad, there must
:06:09. > :06:12.have been times when he thotght I'm not going to get out of here.
:06:13. > :06:14.And it wasn't long before the tide was turning,
:06:15. > :06:22.That's it from me, thanks for staying up to watch.
:06:23. > :06:29.Well, it has been another very lovely day.
:06:30. > :06:32.Tomorrow could be even bettdr, make the most of it if you can, because
:06:33. > :06:35.through Thursday and Friday, we have some wet weather, and by thd
:06:36. > :06:40.But back to the moment to h`nd, our evening showers have didd away
:06:41. > :06:43.and it should be quiet from here on through the night.
:06:44. > :06:48.Rurally, there could be a p`tch of mist when you get up first thing
:06:49. > :06:50.tomorrow morning and the ovdrnight temperatures, in the countrxside,
:06:51. > :06:54.eight or nine, for towns and cities, it is warm again,
:06:55. > :06:58.temperatures 13 and 14 degrdes for the most part. Tomorrow,
:06:59. > :07:03.a very nice summer's day, plenty of sunshine from the word go.
:07:04. > :07:06.In fact, for many places, through the morning, there will be
:07:07. > :07:10.The breeze is light initially, it changes direction
:07:11. > :07:13.as you go through the day and once you get past lunchtime
:07:14. > :07:16.you will see a little bit of fair`weather cloud floating around,
:07:17. > :07:22.Your national weather forec`st follows, but I leave you with
:07:23. > :07:32.the outlook for the next few days. Good night.
:07:33. > :07:34.more cloud on Friday. None of this survives into the weekend, some rain
:07:35. > :07:42.around on Saturday. It's certainly been a feast of
:07:43. > :07:46.football again. The temperature in S?o Paulo was much the same as we
:07:47. > :07:51.had in Glasgow and Bristol. Here, temperatures are set to climb higher
:07:52. > :07:55.in the next few days. Tonight, rather than Brazil, it's more likely
:07:56. > :08:02.to be chilly. In rural areas we re looking at low single figures for a
:08:03. > :08:07.while. Clear skies overnight. It is setting us up for a sunny start to
:08:08. > :08:10.Wednesday. There will be changes coming in from the north-west. The
:08:11. > :08:11.breeze will freshen