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Newsround Investigates launches first hard-hitting documentary
Iconic children's programme Newsround, still the only dedicated daily news service for children, is to screen the first Newsround Investigates, special half-hour documentaries for C大象传媒 taking an in-depth look at issues affecting children's lives.
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Newsround Investigates is a brand new half-hour documentary format for children on 大象传媒 ONE and, for the first time in its 34-year history, the award-winning programme has been extended to 30 minutes.
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In the first programme, Lizo Mzimba and leading criminologist David Wilson take a look at the alarming scale of arson attacks committed by schoolchildren.
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This powerful documentary talks to some of the youngsters who commit arson, looks at some of the reasons why they do it and examines the consequences of their actions.
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Every year around 90,000 children in England and Wales are affected by arson.
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Every week there are around 20 fires in schools and most of them are started by children with some connection to the school.
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School fires traditionally happen when schools are empty, particularly in the summer holidays. But increasing numbers of these fires are now occurring in school hours.
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Fire & Rescue Service tells Newsround Investigates of its real fears - that it is only a matter of time before a child is killed.
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Newsround Investigates speaks to children whose schools have been burnt down, children who have been injured in fires and children who have deliberately started fires.
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The programme visits London's Tower Hamlets to look at the scale of the problem there, as well as schools in West Yorkshire, East Sussex and the West Midlands.
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The programme also talks to psychologist Jack Kennedy, an expert in child arson, about why young people start fires and the hidden extent of the problem.
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It also visits various anti-arson schemes across the country, such as the first-ever fire fighter embedded in a school.
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Newsround Investigates also questions why less than 200 schools in England and Wales have sprinkler systems when the problem of fires in schools is so great.
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Newsround Investigates: Arson goes out on Monday 8 May at 5.00pm on 大象传媒 ONE.
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