News in Picture

Tonight we have a hard-hitting investigation from Tim Whewell into private fostering in Britain. He finds that poor regulation of the practice is leaving hundreds of children, many brought into the UK from abroad, vulnerable to abuse.

We follow the journey of one young Nigerian, Tunde Jaji, now 24, who was brought to London when he was five years old to live with a woman he called his "aunt" only to discover, years later, that they were not related.

Ministers tell Newsnight that they are looking at what more can be done to increase the numbers of privately-fostered children who are known to local authorities.

Also in the programme, Political editor Michael Crick will be reporting from the TUC conference in Manchester, where delegates have backed joint industrial action should what they call the coalition's "attacks" on jobs, pensions and public services go ahead. We will be asking what this means for the Labour leadership with David Miliband, who will be joining us fresh from the party's hustings.

And Matt Prodger will be asking whether we really live in noisier times after poet Ian McMillan's public call to reduce our noise footprint, made up of such things as the tinny beat emanating from iPod headphones, the repetitive thud of road drills, or what he terms the burglar alarm's "version of house music". We'll also be speaking to Ian McMillan about why he wants us all to live a quieter life.

Do join Jeremy at 10.30pm on BBC Two.