25/03/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

Good evening. A lack of regulation interview

Good evening. A lack of regulation is putting vulnerable people in

Jersey, cared for in their own homes, at risk. Not all services

that support elderly, disabled or mentally ill people come under

current care laws ` and that includes States`run homes and care

agencies. Emma Chambers reports on plans to bring the island's laws up

to date. They are trusted to provide a high

standard of care for those that need it, but who is making sure they are?

Under the current law only private care homes are independently

regulated. Those that are run by the Government, like this one, are not

regulated. That's because Jersey's legislation hasn't been updated for

almost 20 years. It excludes States`run facilities from legal

inspections but, more worryingly, care agencies who provide services

within the privacy of patients' own homes are completely unregulated and

there have been complaints. For example, people not turning up,

people not being properly recruited and properly vetted. To ensure that

they have got their proper qualifications and experience to do

the job. Anne hired a care agency to look after her mother. She chose

Beth and Karen to provide a nursing service which is regulated. I could

see that they met the standards, I could see that there were people

within the provision with medical backgrounds, which I think, from my

point of view, is crucial. Nearly 30 care agencies in Jersey are not

inspected ,and that's causing concern for health officials. From

time to time we receive complaints about care provision and if we have

got the legal framework then we can obviously go and inspect and

intervene. If there is no legal framework there is absolutely

nothing we can do anything people find that very difficult to

understand. But that may not be the situation for much longer, as a new

law has been drafted. If approved by the States, all care services in

Jersey will be regulated in the next couple of years.

Well, earlier the Islands Health Minister joined us. She told BBC

Channel Islands about the timescales involved in getting the law in

action. The regulation of the law is hopefully going to be lodged and

discussed at the beginning of July. It is the overarching law and once

it has come back from Privy Council, we will be going on the regulations.

So the first thing that will be regulated as caring people's homes

because we feel that they are vulnerable and we need to nature

that the cure that is provided by private agencies and whatever does

come up to the current standard. And you can hear more on that, including

the response from those working in the care industry, with Matthew

Price on BBC Radio Jersey from 6am. A legal agreement to move the

Anglican Deaneries of Guernsey and Jersey from the oversight of the

Bishop of Winchester to Dover has been signed. A Commission will now

be appointed examining the long and complex relationship the Church of

England has with the Islands. The agreement comes into effect after a

breakdown in relations between Jersey's Dean Bob Key and the Bishop

of Winchester Tim Dakin over the handling of a safeguarding

complaint. Two fishermen have been rescued

after their boat sunk off Jersey's southwest coast. A lifeboat was

called when people spotted their distress flares. The crew found the

men two and a half miles off the coast of Noirmont. Authorities will

look into why the boat sank. Guernsey States need to act now if

Island`wide voting is to be introduced by the next election.

Deputy Mike Hadley is trying to convince deputies to move away from

the current District system. It's been suggested the States should

hold off until after a review of the Government is complete. But Deputy

Hadley thinks that leaves it too late to be in place by 2016.

The problem is that everybody has got the radio what they should do,

so I think that you have got to keep it simple. And what we have got to

say is that we're going to elect 45 deputies, we're going to have up to

45 votes. Once you have hybrid systems then they are doomed to

fail. New EU rules could soon heap extra

work on companies in the Channel Islands. The European Union is

updating its data`protection laws against a backdrop of political

concern about recent revelations of spying activities by the United

States of America. And, as Mike Wilkins reports, while Guernsey and

Jersey are not part of the EU, they may have to fall in line.

Your data, his data, my data. The chances are, most of us have some of

our data stored online somewhere in the world. Protecting that data is

becoming increasingly important. It follows the recent revelations about

American intelligence services snooping on millions of innocent

phone calls and e`mails. Europe is now reviewing the data`protection

law that applies to all member states, and the Channel Islands need

to keep up. For the first time, companies doing business with EU

citizens will be required to comply with the laws even if they're not

located in the EU themselves. In terms of the things that

organisations need to think about, the way that they handle

information. If they are outsourcing, there has been a lot of

nervousness after the Edward Snowden affair, organisations need to start

thinking carefully about how they are handling clients's data in

preparation for big changes in the next year or two. It will affect

almost every company in the Islands, particularly those companies

involved with data hosting, cloud computing, and any that have EU

citizens as clients. The legislation is still in draft form, but while

some see it as more compliance others see it as an opportunity for

the Channel Islands to show that any data stored here will remain safe,

far from prying eyes. Well, that's all from the late team

here at BBC Channel Islands News. Clare Burton will be back with your

next full television bulletin tomorrow evening here on BBC One. In

the meantime, I'll leave you with David for a look at tomorrow's

weather. Good evening. Northerly or

north`easterly winds will dominate the weather over the next few days.

Enough moisture coming off the sea will generate showers and

temperatures will not be high. A few showers late in the day and also

temperatures struggling up to about 10 degrees, not a very worn day

either. Bash match warm day. Temperatures starting the day around

six or seven Celsius. For tomorrow, some sunny spells for the first half

of the day. There is more clout through the afternoon and into the

early evening. A brisk, northerly breeze to start the day. The winds

drop goal and we will see temperatures up to 15 degrees. There

will be some showers around on both Thursday and Friday but slightly

warm air at the start of the weekend. Good night and here's the

summary. might be wintry. Feeling chilly at

10 degrees. The outlook, it stays chilly and temperatures look like

they will pick up towards the eight -- weekend.

In early spring, a bit of sunshine makes the difference. Today we had

some sunshine in the far east of the UK and in the far west. In Northern

Ireland and East Anglia, temperatures climbed into the teens.

But for most of us, it was gloomy and temperatures were at sixes and

sevens. Single figure temperatures will feature heavily over the next

few days. We are already seeing the weather coming in from the east

pushing the weather to the West so we will see showers continuing in

the night. Isolated showers. Most towns and cities just about avoiding

a frost but in rural areas we will seek pockets of frost and fog

patches for the morning. Some showers across the West but it will

brighten up in the West, however in the East the cloud thickens, the

winds pick up and out rakes of rain coming from the North Sea. It will

be a different day across East Anglia. Feeling