i begged them on the phone. i can t stress how much i want people to listen to that phone call. i begged the children s ward in rotherham. i said, please can you help? i ve got no one to go to. he needs iv antibiotics. he is struggling. theyjust said, we have not got the doctors, we have not got the beds. i can tjust pull a bed out of the air. we have got queues of kids waiting. it is notjust your child. i said, yes, but he needs this treatment. so do other children . that s the answer i got. they have taken his life. and that was the woman on the phone? yes. she said 50 or 60 children were waiting. yes, they said there were queues of children waiting but they had no facilities, no beds. everyone was referring everyone to a&e. she said if you think you needs treatment, go to a&e.
but from what i know, theyjust refused us point blank. he needed that treatment. he needed iv antibiotics. the doctors were telling us he needed that urgently. they just didn t want to know. that was our correspondent jessica lane speaking to yusuf s uncle, zaheer ahmed. dr richard jenkins, chief executive of the rotherham nhs foundation trust, said. train passengers in britain are facing more disruption to journeys, as thousands of staff
it s possible to say we ve got some wonderful fire fighters. we saw that during the summer when they dealt with the wildfires in our city because of the heat waves. there are serious problems in the fire brigade. the brigade s commissioner, andy roe, said he was deeply sorry for the harm that had been caused. it s the report of 2000 people in the london fire brigade who have told their story and therefore it cannot be ignored. it cannot be just put down to a few bad apples. we ve got to look at the systems and the leadership that have enabled, you know, those most terrible examples to happen and not be dealt with, i don t think, in the way they should have been. going forward, he said, it would be completely clear to staff what behaviour wasn t acceptable and what the consequences would be. helena wilkinson, bbc news. the uncle of a five year old boy who died on monday says he wants answers from the health secretary about his nephew s treatment. yusuf mahmud nazir died
the key event that they singled out in their report that they were critical of was that occasion, the 16th of august 2020, when logan did go to a&e, was seen by a paediatric consultant. he had a broken upper arm but a number of other significant injuries, as the panel have described them. and that point, that information was not shared and also a child protection referral was not made, and they are saying that had that been done, maybe some things could have been different. now, a number of things happened after that as well. a few months after that, angharad williamson, his mother, someone that was convicted of logan s murder, actually said on a 999 call that it was the 15 year old craig mulligan another convicted of logan s murder that actually pushed logan down the stairs in that incident back in august as well. now, another key recommendation from today s child practices review is that the welsh government should consider a review looking into how all the agencies involved th
id short staffed as well are having to go to short staffed as well are having to go to a85. short staffed as well are having to go to a&e, which itself is not able to cope go to a&e, which itself is not able to cope. the government is working on a plan to cope. the government is working on a plan to to cope. the government is working on a plan to fix this, but within the meantime, people are being left and there the meantime, people are being left and there are going to be these headlines and there are going to be these headlines suggesting that, you know, amy headlines suggesting that, you know, arny mack headlines suggesting that, you know, amy mack can t cope and gps have got to do more amy mack can t cope and gps have got to do more. and amy mack can t cope and gps have got to do more. . , ,, amy mack can t cope and gps have got to do more- to do more. and pressure also in social care. to do more. and pressure also in social care, they to do more. and pressure al