Daily roundup 14 December: Moped crime, schools funding and child poverty

Crime involving mopeds has increased by more than 600 per cent in the capital in the past two years, it has emerged. The BBC reports that Met Police figures show there have been 7,668 crimes involving mopeds to date in 2016 - up from 1,053 in the whole of 2014 and 4,647 in the whole of 2015. The Met said the rise, which is mainly due to young people stealing mopeds and using them to commit crimes, was a "huge problem". ?


State schools in England will have to find £3bn in savings by 2019/20, says the public spending watchdog. The Mirror reports that a funding analysis by the National Audit Office found that schools face eight per cent budget cuts and about 60 per cent of secondary schools already have deficits. The Department for Education is set to launch a new funding formula, which will see 10,000 schools gaining money and similar numbers losing.


A target to end child poverty in Wales by 2020 cannot be achieved, the Welsh Government has admitted. The BBC reports that Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant said progress had been made, but UK government welfare reforms were hindering Welsh Government ambitions. He said it did not have the power needed to make the significant changes needed to reach the goal.


Former football coach Barry Bennell is due to appear in court charged with child sexual offences. The Guardian reports that Bennell, 62, is expected to appear on Wednesday via videolink at South Cheshire magistrates court in Crewe. He is accused of eight offences of sexual assault against a boy aged under 14.


A 17-year-old boy who hacked TalkTalk has been given a youth rehabilitation order and had his iPhone confiscated. The Daily Mail reports the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was given the 12-month order after he admitted seven hacking offences at Norwich Youth Court.


The Scottish Football Association (SFA) is to set up an independent review into allegations of historic child sex abuse in the sport. The Telegraph reports that the SFA said it had taken steps towards establishing the scope of the review to see what lessons could be learnt, but stressed that Police Scotland remained the main investigatory authority.