David Cameron says he will reveal his EU reform demands early next month
The SNP holds its annual party conference in Aberdeen
England is to get its first "new" grammar school for five decades
Collapsed charity Kids Company faces questions from MPs about how it was run
Question Time comes from Dover
On the EU - Nicola Sturgeon says David Cameron told the Scottish people the only way to stay in the EU was to vote to remain in the UK.
Quote MessageIf you try to take Scotland out of the EU against our democratic wishes, you will be breaching the terms of last year's vote. And, in those circumstances, you may well find that the demand for a second independence referendum is unstoppable."
Nicola Sturgeon says she hoped the SNP and Jeremy Corbyn could work together on, but it's becoming apparent he can't unite his own party on Trident or on welfare.
Quote MessageIn fact, the only thing clear about Labour - and it becomes clearer by the day - is this. Labour is unreliable, unelectable and unable to stand up to the Tories."
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Nicola Sturgeon says the SNP will continue to be a strong opposition at Westminster but turns her attention to the vote next year for Holyrood. And says she will be clear on whether there will be a second referendum on independence:
Quote MessageSo let me be clear. To propose another referendum in the next parliament without strong evidence that a significant number of those who voted No have changed their minds would be wrong and we won't do it. It would not be respecting the decision that people made."
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What is your response to claims that some of the funds weren't spent appropriately? Camila Batmanghelidjh disputes the allegations. She says government grants were "restricted", saying the charity worked closely with the Department for Education to determine which children and young people needed help. This work was audited, she adds:
Quote MessageIt's very important to understand that not only were the civil servants inside these government departments regularly meeting with us to look at the case load and what we were doing but every quarter financial reports were submitted... as well as clinical reports outlining exactly what was done for the young people and the outcomes."
She calls for a "proper, comprehensive and independent of government" audit of what social services has done with the cases handed over when Kids Company closed.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon says "some of our MPs are going to be late arriving in Aberdeen this morning. But they have good reason. Last night they were in the House of Commons voting against Tory austerity."
Wednesday's vote showed the divisions within Labour, she added, saying Labour only decided to U-turn and oppose the Charter for Budget Responsibility (the commitment for future governments to spend less than they get in tax each year) as a result of SNP pressure.
Callum McCaig says just one level of government is actually delivering for the city of Aberdeen - the Scottish government in Holyrood - and now it's on to leader Nicola Sturgeon's speech.
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"Central government and local authorities have no interest in admitting the scale of the problem that exists in this country," claims Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh.
Committee member and Labour MP Kate Hoey says that will be seen as "a very exaggerated statement".
Ms Batmanghelidjh claims she’s not alone in her thinking, citing work done by the Centre for Social Justice.
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Have any Kids Company employees who have left been asked in last six months to sign a non-disclosure agreement? "No, when we closed we have never asked anyone," she says.
What about before then? Alan Yentob steps in and says two of the board members did "just as we do at the BBC when people leave". He says there's "nothing unusual about that".
Callum McCaig, the MP for Aberdeen South formally welcomes delegates to the SNP's annual conference. He said he'd been "stood up" as he was due to open conference with Kirsty Blackman the MP for Aberdeen North, but she missed her flight.
Chancellor George Osborne has greeted Finnish Finance Minister Alexander Stubb at Number 11, who reiterated his support for the UK's plans to seek EU reform.
Mr Stubb said:
Quote MessageI think a lot of the claims you have made about economic reform, social security, immigration, ever-closer union and many other things are very legitimate... You are one of the biggest economies in Europe and I think it's very important that the UK remains inside the core of the EU setting the reform agenda and the economic agenda."
But Mr Osborne did not respond when asked “When do we see the detail of your EU reform plan, Chancellor?”
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How do you help someone with mental health issues by buying them a pair of shoes for £150, asks Labour MP Paul Flynn? "That is really unjust," responds Camila Batmanghelidjh, who claims the structure of his question "is immensely disrespectful to vulnerable people". "Oh for goodness sake," a committee member can be heard saying off-mic.
The charity founder tells MPs "you can have mental health difficulties and you can still need a pair of shoes", adding that she doesn't know where Mr Flynn got the £150 figure from.
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Alan Yentob is questioned by Labour committee member Kate Hoey over an email which cautioned that the "communities" served by Kids Company could "descend into savagery" if the charity had to close. The MP says it was "a shocking thing to say about ordinary, decent people". Mr Yentob says it was a safeguarding document intended to be "of worst case scenario".
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Alan Yentob highlights the work Kids Company did and says there were stabbings, suicide attempts and a murder after Kids Company closed. Committee chairman Bernard Jenkin says the committee was advised that it was in part because "desperate kids no longer had money to pay their drug pushers". Alan Yentob says it's a "terrible allegation" to make against the charity. Camila Batmanghelidjh adds:
Quote MessageI feel representatives of leadership in this country don't have a visceral understanding of what it's like in some of these neighbourhoods... the levels of violence and perversion that some of these children and young people are having to endure is really very shocking. I think you need to be a bit fairer than you are."
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When was the last time the charity's safeguarding arrangements were inspected? "They were not due for an inspection," Camila Batmanghelidjh says. Some testy exchanges with committee chairman Bernard Jenkin ensue. Chairman of trustees Alan Yentob intervenes and says there was an internal system in place.
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"These are challenging children and chaotic environments," Mr Yentob continues. "It's not a perfect organisation but it was doing something that others didn't do."
He says very few clients had £70,000 a year spent on them, which is the maximum - and goes on to stress the importance of early intervention which, he says, saves money in the long run.
Camila Batmanghelidjh follows with a rundown of the various different audits Kids Company was subject to, and says the last Ofsted inspection was "quite recent".
Quote MessageSo actually I would argue we were intensely inspected."
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No figure over £5,000 could be spent without the decision being taken to the Board, says Alan Yentob, chairman of trustees for the charity. The BBC executive says the financial committee would meet 10 times a year and stresses that there were quarterly audits of how the money was being spent. "There was a level and there was a process," he adds.
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"We're not going to get very far unless you answer the questions," says committee chairman Bernard Jenkin, who wants to know how much was paid to children by the charity. Camila Batmanghelidjh insists she is answering the question, but she says she "can't pull out a figure" as the average given depended on the individual cases.
She appears to reject claims that some children were given hundreds of pounds of week, saying that wouldn't be the case for under-18s and adds that it would be "very rare" and only if it was a family.
"You are aware it is a contempt of Parliament to mislead this committee," cautions Mr Jenkin, who asks her if she is sure about her answer. "Yes," she says.
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Questioned about her qualifications and training, Kids Company founder Batmanghelidjh says she has four years' psychotherapy training and 18 years of psychoanalysis, with one year art psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, London "and I've now got some 30 years of work experience behind me".
Following further questioning she says she is not a member of a professional body "because when I trained it wasn't an absolute requirement".
Asked about her professional qualifications she has to diagnose somebody as psychotic, she replies:
Quote MessageI don't personally diagnose, we have psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses who diagnose. But life experience teaches you a lot."