11/01/2017 South Today - Oxford

Coming up: The cuts it's claimed will lead to more people

with dementia being put into full time care.

There could be less funding for services

like day centres - meaning increased

I would have gone under by now and my mother wouldn't have been able to

live with us. Also: the crime described

as stealing from your friends, family and the community -

why a council is determined to catch Tomorrow, we will have some snow may

be. Details later. A charity working with people

with dementia says proposed funding cuts to day services in Oxfordshire

would result in more people being admitted into full-time

care or into hospital. Around 10,000 people

in Oxfordshire have the condition. The council says most charities that

support people in the community manage to operate with no

funding at all. 82-year-old Jenny has been

using Daybreak Oxford's dementia services twice a week

for the past nine months. But a possible cut in funding

from the County Council I know that if it wasn't

for places like this, There was no way I could still

have my mother living with us. It takes too much out of you,

it puts too much of a strain on your marriage, too much

of a strain on the whole family. I find on the days when she comes

here, it's a different story. Oxfordshire County Council currently

funds 46 services like this, catering for people with a range

of needs at a cost Under new proposals,

all charities would have to bid Daybreak Oxford says its services

save the NHS and local authorities money by keeping people like Jenny

out of care homes and hospitals. People with dementia should have the

opportunity to have a good quality of life and have a club where they

can enjoy themselves. In terms of mental health beds,

since 2002 I think we've lost six out of the eight wards that used

to exist in Oxfordshire, there used to be seven day hospitals

in Oxfordshire in 2002, there are now none and it doesn't

seem as though there are any People with dementia should

have the opportunity to have a good quality of life and have a club

that they can go to where they can The county council says it proposes

to carry on funding its own dementia services which are run

by the voluntary sector The Cabinet will decide later this

month on the future of daytime The council says there is scope

for a change following this Police are investigating a rape

in Oxford last night. A woman was threatened at knifepoint

on Harcourt Hill and then raped Police are looking for information

about a man seen running They're also linking it to a car

accident involving a Black VW Golf A 38-year-old man from

Oxford has been arrested. Next: The extraordinary decision

by a motorist to move an ambulance out of a parking space

so he could put his car there. Staff were in the back

treating a patient. It's thought the man

released the ambulance's handbrake to move it

and then drove his car It happened on Pelican Lane

in Newbury two weeks ago. Police want to question the man

who's described as white, in his 50s, and driving

a red Mini Cooper. It was a very reckless

act to undertake. Obviously the ambulance

could have moved forward, the individual would have had no

proper control of that vehicle at the time and anything

could have happened. It could have hit a pedestrian,

could have hit another vehicle and it could have put

the lives of the patient and the crew in the rear

of the ambulance at danger. Councils are turning

to Investigation Units to tackle West Oxfordshire district council

is the latest to give its backing to a team dedicated to curbing abuse

of the system - and just around Fraud is estimated to cost

the authority more than Last year, by tackling fraud

in Oxford, the city council Investigation units like the one

in Oxford cover many areas including tenancy fraud,

council tax, business rates and the abuse of social housing

and the Right To Buy scheme whereby someone buys a council house

when not entitled to. With such high demand for affordable

housing in the city, In the last financial year,

they recovered nearly ?4 million. 21 social housing properties

were recovered and 33 Right To Buy On top of that, last year

the council secured 15 prosecutions, the most serious offenders can face

ten years in prison A couple of years ago,

they were investigating Many councils disbanded the fraud

investigation services. In Oxford we retained ours

and the fact that we are likely to recover ?4 million suggests

it was the right decision. It is important that fraud

is tackled and people Local authorities are working harder

than ever to make sure every pound West Oxfordshire and Cotswold

district councils are following in Oxford's footsteps by backing plans

for their own investigation unit. The more fraud that is identified,

that is money that isn't being taken out of the system,

as it were. It will help protect front

line services and reduce It is estimated by 2020,

councils will not receive Experts say a failure to detect

fraud will result in the loss A new centre using state simulators

to train nurses and midwives The NHS is struggling to recruit

enough staff to care Part of the problem is finding

enough hospital placements for trainees, so could technology be

part of the answer? I will have a quick feel of your

tummy. The bump may feel real enough, the patient is most

definitely isn't that this is no dummy. She gives birth just like a

real mum, so realistic it is not tea-time viewing. Vital for the

students who are training. We are able to come in and practice for our

exams are a couple of months ago. It has been valuable to have this for

us and the rest of the students within the University. My name is

Claire and I am one of the nurses here. They come in all shapes and

sizes and just like a flight similar -- simulator, forced trainees to

make life and dentists decisions. Students can rehearse their skills,

learning a safe environment and it is safe but equally Bury safer

patients. Midwife numbers here average than 10% but live births are

our path as much again. The biggest problem is finding hospitals with

the budget to write clinical areas for the trainees. We can do a lot of

our training in a simulation area and relieved that pressure on the

practice. Practising on real-life patience isn't going away any time

soon. Two poems written by an 11-year-old

George Michael have been unearthed by an old school friend in West

Oxfordshire. Penny Ling, who now

lives in Longcot, discovered them in her old primary

school year book. They were written by the singer

and songwriter when he attended Roe Green Junior School in North

London. As well as writing poems, George

was just one of the friendship We all would sing pop

songs and we were both He didn't stand out,

if he wasn't a show off. Alexis has the forecast -

and the likelihood of snow. Good evening. It would be a cold

night to come because of the strong north-westerly wind which will take

the edge off temperatures. In sheltered spots, it may be a frost

tomorrow morning. These are temperatures in towns and cities but

feeling colder in the countryside. A dry and bright start tomorrow. The

Met office have issued a snow warning. Stay tuned for the latest

on the situation. Temperatures will rise slightly during the morning

with the milder air but then the cold air will set in from the north

turning the rain to snow in some places. A little uncertainty of

whether rain will fall. Temperatures will struggle to rise to above four

Celsius. We could have three centimetres of snow in some places.

That yellow snow warning stays in force through the day tomorrow and

evening. The snow clears away and we could have some snow showers. The

main feature is the key northerly wind. The risk of ice on Friday

morning which could cause tricky driving conditions. The risk of

snowfall tomorrow. Temperatures will struggle to rise. We could have a

dusting and places. potentially leading us into a chilly

start to the weekend. Time for the national weather prospects if you

are on the move. Good evening, a lot going on with

the weather in the next few days, numerous weather warnings in for so

buried in mind if you have travel plans. Lots of isobars on the chart

overnight which means it will be windy for all. The strongest winds

in Scotland, lots of wintry showers with snow getting down to

increasingly low levels and some wintry showers in Northern Ireland

and northern England. A cold night for Northern England, particularly

in more rural spots, frosty and I see for some and some of the snow

really blowing around over higher ground in Scotland. Strong wind and

further snow to take us into tomorrow. It may well make for some

tricky travelling conditions. The forecast for tomorrow in the

southern half of the UK's quite tricky. We have got mild air