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The headlines from BBC Look North this Tuesday night. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Care in crisis - there are calls for government action to deal | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Each week that goes by, care providers are coming out of | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
Police and firearms experts seize weapons and explosives | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Claims that bird flu precautions are being ignored threatening | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
And it's set to get milder over the next 24 hours and that will | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
I will be back later in the programme | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
The man who represents the country's local councils says the underfunding | :00:41. | :00:55. | |
of social care is so bad that authorities are at breaking point. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
One council leader in our area says things can't go | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
on as they are and the Government needs to address the problem. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
An ageing population means that the demand for adult care | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
is likely to increase in the coming years. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Our political editor Tim Iredale reports. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
At the age of 91, Eileen receives help from carers at her home | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
With talk of care crisis, many families are choosing to pay | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
privately for services rather than relying the council. | :01:31. | :01:40. | |
I mean, you hear this about ten minute visits | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
What can you actually do in ten minutes? | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
But an elderly person, you walk into their home, whether it's | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
just giving them some medication, you can't just, | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
"Here you go, medication," and get out. | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
When we talk about social care, what do we actually mean? | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Social care to me is fulfilling people's lives | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Becki has worked in the care sector for ten years. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
She says it's not just the elderly who need looking | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Those individual people could maybe have learning difficulties, they | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
might be paralysed through traffic accidents, that sort of thing, | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
have different conditions so we've got customers | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
with Huntington's disease, motor neuron disease, Parkinson's, | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
all those conditions that can be safely managed within the homes | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
but do make life limiting for the individual sufferer. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Recent years have seen council tax increases | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
limited to 2% but this year, the government is allowing local | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
what's known as a precept to help pay the social care. | :02:33. | :02:44. | |
Any rise above 5% must be put to local people in a referendum. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
But even with that increase, some local authorities say | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
The leader of North East Lincolnshire Council | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
is writing to the government, urging a total rethink on the way health | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
They're not like the leafy suburbs of | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Westminster where they have got a high council tax base. | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
Because we have got low housing costs, our | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
council tax raise of 3% will equate to about, I don't know, | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
to two fifths of what they're going to bring in. | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
We've got more deprivation and more need in our area | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
for older people services but we raise less money than the | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
leafy suburbs of Westminster so it's an unfair system. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
So council leaders appear to be locked in a | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
war of words with the government over the cost of care, | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
Tim Iredale, BBC Look North, Grimsby. | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Earlier I spoke to Lord Porter of Spalding who is the Chairman | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
of the Local Government Association and the leader of South | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
He told me that the government has been told just how | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
Local government has been making a very strong case. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
We're ?1.3 billion short in the immediate period, | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
raising to ?2.6 billion over the life of this Parliament. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
We need extra direct funding put into adult social care | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
So, the Government said it would create a | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
sustainable system for everyone who needs social care, | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
They've got a cross-department group looking at it at the moment. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
I'm hoping that local government finance settlement | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
had been delayed because they're going to try to find some new money. | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
But if they don't, the care crisis will worsen. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
I'm almost certain that you'll see reports | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
over the next few weeks that give a greater example of how that is. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
There's probably over a million people now not receiving | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
adequate funding for the adult care that they need. | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
Would you feel comfortable if we heard those figures there, 3%, | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
5%, if we were talking about 10%, 15%, would you be happy about that | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
to go on the council tax bills to pay this and get it sorted out | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
Council tax isn't the way to sort this problem out. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
This problem needs to be resolved through national taxation and that | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
doesn't mean to say we need to pay more, it just means | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
we need to spend the money we are spending better. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
I used the word crisis, is it a crisis? | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
Some people use the word crisis, I'm preferring to | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
wait for crisis to come in the future. | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
But we're at breaking point now, there is ?1.3 billion extra needed. | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Each week that goes by, care providers are coming out of | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
A 46-year-old man has died after it's believed | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
he was struck by steel that fell from a van in Hull. | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Humberside Police and the Health and Safety Executive | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
are investigating the incident on Vulcan Street off Clough Road | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Police have seized firearms from a firing range and explosives | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
The operation is being carried out at Skydock, which is at the former | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
RAF Faldingworth base near Market Rasen. | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
Police are working with military firearms experts after | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
the Home Office withdrew a licence to store weapons. | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
There is still a police presence here this evening at Skydock which | :05:54. | :06:11. | |
sits on a 1000 acres set of blood which used to be an RAF base. There | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
is lots of different facilities here from a firing range to storage or | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
weapons and ammunition. And also for explosives to be tested here as | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
well. What has happened today released to a specific licence and | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
that license covers a range of things normally used by the police | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
and the military like automatic guns, missiles, gases. That licence | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
has been revoked by the Home Office and Lincolnshire Police said it is | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
compared with military firearm experts and it has been removing | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
weapons that are stored here in it's own words, to McCain this security | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
and to ensure public safety. That is what they said about why they are | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
doing it. -- maintain public security. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
How long with the operation take? Today was day two of their | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
operation, the joint operation between the police and the military | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
experts. Lincolnshire Police has told us there is a lot to do and it | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
does expect this operation to go on for many days more. The BBC has | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
contacted Skydock for comment today but it declined to say anything. | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
Thank you very much indeed. People are deliberately ignoring | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
rules designed to stop the spread of bird flu and putting millions | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
of chickens and turkeys at risk That's according to farmers - | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
who want people to report neighbours who break the rules | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
to the authorities. 30000 birds have died | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
after three outbreaks Our rural affairs correspondent | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Linsey Smith reports. Strolling around without | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
a care in the world. But the owner of these | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
guinea fowl should have. The Government has ordered that | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
all poultry be kept indoors And for granting these | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
speckled hens their freedom, She is following the rules, however | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
difficult, and is angry about those | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
who are not. I think they should be named | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
and shamed and I've been spreading it around my friends, | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
you know, one or two has said, "I've only got two, it | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
doesn't apply to me." I get quite annoyed | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
because one, it's not fair on their birds for their | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
own welfare but also when the restrictions | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
are lifted a bit, as we're hoping in March, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
are those birds now carriers? 30,000 birds have been | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
culled in our area so far It was discovered | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
at a farm near Louth in December where 5000 | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
birds were culled. The second case, two weeks later, | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
was in Fulstow where And the latest outbreak was last | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
month in Boston, again at a turkey farm, where 19,000 | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
birds were affected. One gram of infected bird faeces | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
is enough to kill a million birds so that gives you a scale of how | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
serious this disease is which can be spread sort of from a car tyre, | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
it can be spread from a boot, Well, there are hundreds of poultry | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
farms in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire employing | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
thousands of people and those jobs rely | :09:10. | :09:10. | |
on the prosperity, the health | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
of these flocks. And Defra say that the only way | :09:13. | :09:13. | |
to ensure that at the moment is Shoppers who prefer local, | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
free range eggs could Farms in high risk zones may | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
lose their free range status Another reason why keeping this | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
disease contained is so important. In football tonight, | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
Scunthorpe United were held to a 0-0 In League Two, Grimsby Town also | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
drew 0-0, away against Newport. Let's get the post as bat forecast | :09:43. | :10:00. | |
for tomorrow. Here is Keeley. If you are getting a bit bored | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
of it being so cold out there, you'll be pleased to know | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
it is going to get milder overnight tonight and then | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
that will last over the next three days | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
and into next week as well. So a lot of cloud overnight, | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
perhaps a little bit of haziness, mistiness, | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
and there could be a little bit But frost-free with temperatures | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
down to around six or seven Celsius. So, tomorrow, a lot of cloud | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
through the morning, there might even be some residual dampness | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
but we should see a little bit of Overall though, a lot | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
of cloud through tomorrow showery rain spreading up | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
from the south but even once that arrives, | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
we still could get the odd Temperatures in places | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
into double figures. It doesn't look too bad | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
for Thursday and Friday. That is it from us tonight. We are | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
back in the morning at breakfast and I will be back tomorrow night at | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
half past six. Good night. weather into the weekend. A bit of | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
fog around to watch out for. Jon Hammond with the national forecast | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
now. Good evening. There is | :11:09. | :11:09. |