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Good evening. Out top stories: Children's services come under fire | :00:10. | :00:19. | |
for the ninth time in a decade. Electricity is going up again, but | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
is it partly our fault? And we assess our top athletes' chances of | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
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Nine critical reports in nine years and the children's services in | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
Jersey is not improving fast enough. The Care Inspectorate included in | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
its report a lack of communication between senior managers and staff | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
and children's point of view not being listened to. Why isn't a care | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
getting better? Is a Jersey's young generation in | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
care are being let down? The Care Inspectorate has found that the | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
island's care services are in need of the improvement. It says that | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
specialist units had positive experiences with progress being | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
made and the overall service, but half of the overall evacuated areas | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
had many witnesses. 14 recommendations have have been made | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
following the report. Children who are looked after are the state's | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
responsibility and they are the most important children in a Jersey | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
in my view. There is a political responsibility to be thinking about | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
those children and their needs and making sure they get the best care. | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
These recommendations are now part of the island's improvement plan, | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
joining 38 others following reports in the last decade. Action has to | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
be taken. This is something that we need to implement and it is | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
something that our group will make sure is implemented. My personal | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
view is that these recommendations are needed to be handled over -- | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
need to be handed over a two year period. I expect we should deliver | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
good outcomes by Jersey expects from its children's services. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
report states that children's services in the state are going in | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
the right direction but the right people and right policies may not | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
be in place. Now the children's Agassi groups want to put these -- | :03:01. | :03:10. | |
children's advocacy groups want to put these into practice. | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
Paul Creedon says that he will not seek to be President of Jersey's | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
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Football Association and -- Ricky Weir says that he will not seem to | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
be President of Jersey's Football Association and expects Paul | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Creedon to take his place. Electricity bills in Guernsey are | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
going up. The cost of electricity in the UK has recently fallen, so | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
why is Guernsey having to pay more? The 2.5 % hike has to do with | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
electricity that was consumed two years ago. This has to do with our | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
current investment plans going forward and will not cover what is | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
going on now in the UK. The UK is wholesale market and those prices | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
are not reflected correctly. price hike comes at a time when we | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
are all using more electricity. In 2006, the a -- island just used | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
over 50,000 megawatts of electricity. I have an energy | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
monitor here which tells me how much electricity is being used in | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
this house. In his living room you will find a television and a set | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
top box and also video-games. Let's see what happens when we turn all | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
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of these devices on. With all of these devices on, I can | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
see now that might cost has gone up from 5p an hour to over 8p an hour. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
And it is not just you and me who are trying to become more energy | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
efficient. Tomorrow, Guernsey States will unveil its plans for | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
alternative energy. Renewable energy is certainly one | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
issue that Guernsey States will have to tackle in the future. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Tomorrow's challenge will be electing a new education minister. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
A new general election will take place in April but the public do | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
not seem to get -- be getting too excited about voting yet. The | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
electorate will is about 8,000 short this year. | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
What a steady stream of forms to process, there is a team working | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
behind the scenes to ensure that everyone who wants to vote on the | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
April -- on April 18th can do so. If you want to check your details, | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
you can do so at places like Frossard House. All of these orders | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
contain names that are already on the electoral roll. There is some | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
concern that there are not more names. The target has been set, but | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
with more than 8,000 names are needed to reach it, there is still | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
some way to go, and there are some ideas why this may be the case. | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
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think there has been an expectation of less people voting. There is no | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
real definitive evidence on reasons for people not registering. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
lack of Ireland voting may be one reason, but are there are other | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
issues to blame? Some people are saying they are frustrated with | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
politics but we live in challenging times and I do not think our local | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
politics are divorced from this process. Let's make sure that local | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
people take part by registering. is that a message that is getting | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
through to the general public? did not have a say. You have issues | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
that will not get listened to. I think it is important to get the | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
right people voted in. I think that they do not tend to listen to the | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
likes of any, you and everyone else, so I am not writing. I do not see | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
the point. -- so I am not voting. do not feel I have a say on what | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
goes on on the island. The concern that -- is that some people will | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
want to decide that they want to vote after the deadline and by then | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
it will be too late. Later on Spotlight: We will meet | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
the mother looking for answers about her son's death in | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
Afghanistan. You're going to be seeing a lot of | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
this around now as it is only six months until the Olympic Games. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Yesterday we met a Jersey Bolley Bott judge who will be officiating | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
at the Games. -- of volleyball. Today we will meet three athletes | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
who hope to join her. As the prospects of the Olympic Games | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
comes to us, there is still time for Attlee's to qualify. Three of | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
those hoping to pack their bags for London Ara Lee Merrien, Elizabeth | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
Cann, and Heather Watson. -- for London are. Lee was just 18 seconds | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
off of qualifying in last year's Olympics and he may have a spot in | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
2012. The next few months will be so important for me. I need to get | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
myself and the best ever shape that I have ever been end. I will enjoy | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
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the ride, I guess. He needs a qualifying time of just a few | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
minutes more than his last time. He is hoping to make his Olympic bid | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
when he competes in a marathon next April. I have really enjoyed it in | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
the past and I have the credentials across the board. Another person | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
with the work to do is Jersey's Elizabeth Cann. It is likely only | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
one person will be selected to select Great Britain and she is | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
currently ranked 50th in the world. But she has some top competition. | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
We are still in neck and neck at the moment. She is ahead of me in | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
the rankings at the moment but that is just because of all the points | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
she is carrying from last season. They have not dropped off yet. I | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
still need to put in some good performances and start building up | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
some points. Nothing is safe at the moment but I am feeling good about | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
how I am performing at the moment. From one court to another, and | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Guernsey's Heather Watson could be representing Great Britain. She is | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
currently ranked 105th in the world and is the third British seed. She | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
could qualify if she makes it into the top 56 players of the world, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
all through a wild card. These athletes all had big dreams but not | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
much time to stake their place at the Greatest Show on Earth. It is | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
time to go to work with just six months to go. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
We will hear from more Olympic hopefuls later in the week but now | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
for a look at the weather. It is quite a mild night ahead of us with | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
quite a mild night ahead of us with some cooler weather returning by | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
the end of the week. Tonight will bring a lot of cloud around and it | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
will keep things relatively mild. We are in between Llais Gwynedd | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
weather fronts at the moment. Some of -- in between two weather fronts. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
There will be a cold front coming through that will bring some rain. | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
There could be one or two showers by the end of the week. A lot of a | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
cloud around with the risk of some fog patches. Temperatures will be | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
no lower than nine Celsius but it looks like a start they -- a pretty | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
grey start to the day tomorrow with some drizzle. I think it will | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
remain pretty ever cast into the afternoon. The winds will pick up | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
at 11 degrees Celsius. There is the risk of some fog patches and | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
occasional drizzle and the wind will increase in the afternoon. | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
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For the surf, you will be able to find some shelter, but they will be | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
generally choppy, at the waves, around three feet at best. We will | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
see some heavy rain overnight on Thursday into Friday. There will be | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
some fresher conditions and quite a few showers on Thursday and some | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
pretty blustery conditions. The weather will settle down for a | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
Friday and still be quite cool. It will feel settled for the start of | :12:52. | :12:57. |