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Good evening, I'm Katherine Nash. for the news where you are. | :00:11. | :00:11. | |
A company that supports vulnerable teenagers in Norfolk has | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
had its contract for new placements suspended over concerns about | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
SixteenPlus is paid by the council to provide supported accommodation | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
for 16 to 18-year-olds who have recently left care. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
It follows a report by BBC Look East showing the poor conditions some | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
of those young people were living in. | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
And today, Norfolk County Council announced the contract | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
for new placements had been suspended pending an investigation. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
This from our health reporter, Nikki Fox. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
The home of a vulnerable 17-year-old living in Norfolk on their own. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Cat faeces on the floor, and cigarette butts | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
This is how I found it earlier this month. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
What's worrying upstairs is not just the mess, but also the state | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Some of them are clearly broken, and then if I show you this one | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
here, in one of the rooms upstairs, it is cracked and there are there | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
The day we filmed, the teenage care leaver was moved. | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
The councillor who first move the concerns links it has taken | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
This was first reported to the children's services | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
So I'm pretty disgusted that obviously, as an elected member, | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
my issues won't seem to be taken seriously. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
And with the evidence that has been presented to me afterwards, | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Norfolk County Council says it has now inspected aching | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
It also says it is now making weekly visit so it can be satisfied | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
It says it is in the process of appointing | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
We filmed at the property after a whistle-blower past | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
a councillor photos of other houses in Norfolk. | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
Glenn Leverett lives near one of them. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
He says he made repeated complaints to SixteenPlus | :02:07. | :02:07. | |
Loud music at two and three o'clock in the morning. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
You can clearly hear plates, glasses, cups | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
Everything being trashed. I do think, why? | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Where is the people who are meant to be there constantly | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
No new teenagers will be placed with SixteenPlus | :02:27. | :02:46. | |
The council can't say how long that will take. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Earlier, I spoke to Nikki and asked her if Norfolk is | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
the only place SixteenPlus is operating. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
No, the company is also being used by Cambridgeshire | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
Now, Cambridgeshire cancelled all new placements the day before | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Norfolk, but Suffolk says it has carried out numerous visits | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
and is fully satisfied, so it will continue to place young | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
Even though we are not talking about a large | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
number of young people, these contracts are substantial. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Norfolk County Council have paid to SixteenPlus ?4 million over | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
And in Suffolk, the company has just won a large joint contract | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
with another company worth ?7 million. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
And that is to take on more than 100 teenage asylum seekers. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Campaigning has got underway in the local elections. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
They're on May 4th, and this year we'll be deciding | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
who we want to represent us on our county councils. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
They're the top tier of local government and oversee things | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
like social services, care for the elderly | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
At the moment, all councils in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
are under Conservative control, as our political correspondent, | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
The Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, visiting a relief road | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Today, the Conservatives promised that, if re-elected, | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
they will complete the final stretch and turn it into a ring road. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
He was also shown the site of the third river | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
And he launched his party's manifesto. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
The Tories will talk a lot about their commitment | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
That and their promise to keep down costs and protect public services. | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
One thing people can be certain about if a Conservative council | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
with a good majority is elected in May, that | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
with a good majority is elected in May, that they will | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
The money they are visiting this year is going to be well | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Which party is best placed to keep providing | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
That is the main issue in every county in these elections. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Labour say the Conservative's cuts have been too deep. | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Councils should be using more of their reserves to ease the pain. | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
If we invest in improving some of the things that we need to do, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
like helping people to stay at home when they are elderly and frail, | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
like helping families to stay together when the children | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
are in difficulty or families are in difficulty, we will | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
All the parties have a lot to prove in the elections. | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Neighbour wants to show that, despite its problems nationally, | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
The Liberal Democrats, once the main opposition | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
If residents have experienced a Liberal Democrat county councillor, | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
they will invariably vote again for the Liberal Democrats. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
The Greens sometimes surprise, while Ukip certainly did last time. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
People now realise that Ukip are not just that one policy party. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Also, we have nobody telling us how to vote. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
We do what is right for our local people. | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
Behind the sound bites some very real issues. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
So who we choose to sit on our council chambers will be important. | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
Ipswich Town has announced that it's putting up season ticket prices | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
An adult season ticket will rise on average by 1.5% and concessionary | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
rates will only be available for the over-65s. | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
But under-12s will be able to watch all home games for under ?50. | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Those are your top stories tonight, but there's just time to leave | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
you with the weather. Here's Julie. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
Overnight tonight, we keep quite a lot of cloud, clear intervals and | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
some patchy rain and drizzle. Mild, too. Temperatures no lower than | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
seven or eight and we hold onto it blustery West to north-westerly | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
wind. Summary tomorrow, some dry weather, the cloud of training and | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
breaking to allow some sunshine through. Temperatures up to around | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
57 Fahrenheit, 14 Celsius. Sunday, still a?. -- still a question about | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
what will happen. Some abbots of rain, but hopefully a little | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
brightness and sunset, too. Soon, the national forecast, but here is | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
the outlook. Monday, cloudy with outbreaks of rain, TDD | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
it is rather breezy. Now for the national outlook. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
It was quite a wet day across many northern and western parts of the | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
UK. This was the view in Lancashire not so long ago. For | :07:51. | :07:51. |