on benefits for families with children.

Dr Waretini-Karena, who spent 10 years in prison, told the inquiry about abuse he suffered as a child in a boys' home."When I walked into the prison yard for the first time as a teenager, having never been there before - I already knew 80% of the men in there. We'd spent the last 11 years growing up together in state care,"

"That's when I knew there was a pipeline to prison; a pipeline that has spent decades sweeping up and funnelling Māori children from state care to prison."Dr Waretini-Karena added that the Royal Commission's report acknowledged "that whilst we are responsible for our actions, we are not responsible for the hidden mechanisms that operate within the environment we are born into, privileging one faction at the expense of the other".Covid vaccine manufacturer Moderna has completed a new site in the UK, which it says will help prepare the the country against future pandemics.

The Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre (MITC) in Harwell, Oxfordshire, is now fully operational and has its manufacturer's license by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.Moderna's UK general manager Darius Hughes calls it an "an important pillar of our pandemic preparedness".

US company Moderna became a household name during the Covid pandemic, creating successful vaccines using a new technology called mRNA.

It used genetic code to create an immune response by giving the body the instructions to protect against the virus.Rosie Walker, of law firm Gilson Gray which is representing the parents, said: "This case will have far reaching implications."

BBC Scotland News understands that the Scottish government is confident that the vast majority of schools in Scotland already offer single-sex lavatories.Ministers are still considering the implication of the Supreme Court judgement and whether any changes will have to be made to toilet provisions.

Ms Walker said all schools in Scotland would now have to "urgently review" whether half of their toilets are for boys and half for girls, as is required by theShe added: "This case, on top of the Supreme Court decision last week, gives focus to the importance of protecting sex-based rights and single-sex spaces."