30/01/2017 Inside Out South

Is a lack of cash putting the South's most vulnerable at risk?

Carers say we're heading for a crisis.

My choice has been to either breach the living wage or to say, "Sorry,

we just can't deliver the service that is right, is legal".

We're with people, we're not with a tin of baked

You can't just say, hang on a minute, it's

Also, we're uncovering a darker side to the South's music scene.

This guy came up behind me and he started trying

to unzip my shorts and put his hand down my shorts.

Anybody who says they're not aware this is happening

And a rare glimpse of a shy creature that's closer than you might think.

First, it's ?1 billion funding shortfall having a devastating

effect on the way we care for our most vulnerable and elderly here in

the South. Government cuts and rising costs have seen some care

providers pull out altogether from local council contracts. We

It's the crack of dawn in investigate a care system in crisis.

It's the crack of dawn in Littlehampton, West Sussex. This is

Jo. She's going to be filming new. Is that OK? Say hi. This is Selma,

she's 26 and lives at home with mother, brothers and sister. She is

on a day out with her carers in the front and back. She likes garden

centres. Hates dogs! Loves Christmas. Is partial to a bit of

chocolate. And a cup of tea. We have four hours with her and sometimes it

can go very quickly because she takes the lead, so she is off. At

other times it can be quite a lengthy process. She used to go to a

day centre and her behaviours were really, really bad and it just

wasn't the right environment for her because she displayed lots of

challenging behaviour. Over the last few months, she's got so much

better. She is one of the 900,000 people in the UK who are looked

after by home care workers. We go to McDonald's twice a week. She likes

chicken nuggets and chips. Can you see the sign? Yes! Do you think it

is an undervalued role? Very much so, very much so. I think the pay

is, and also if my role says support worker, people don't look on it as a

valuable role. Her care is provided by a small family business in

Worthing run by three sisters, Alison, Helen and manager Debbie

funded by West Sussex County Council funded by West Sussex County Council

and things are tight. We don't have enough money. Our focus has to be on

paying the staff as much as we can paying the staff as much as we can

and encouraging the right people to apply for the jobs. The carers are

employing today are still starting on the same level as they were in

2009. Frozen wages mean company companies like this are struggling

to employ qualified staff. State funding is definitely not in a

healthy place. The system is said to be in crisis. The policy director is

Colin Angel. At the moment it's ?16.70 an hour for home care but the

council is paying ?2 an hour less than that. That's a significant

amount and it will impact on what is available for running this service

and will certainly mean care workers' pay is nowhere near as good

as it should be to the valuable work that they do. We discovered nearly

half the councils in the South are paying less than the recommended

minimum of ?16.70 an hour. And underfunding isn't just a funding

problem for care providers. Sometimes we are the only people

they will see in the day. If their families live far and wide, we might

be the only people they see, well, for two or three days, sometimes.

Hazel is a care worker. It is one of the country's biggest care

providers, where she works. It looks after 25,000 people in their own

homes. Our first call of the day is a 45-minute visit to Gwen at home

with husband Terry. Hello! Morning! My early weather detector tells me

it's absolutely frosty out there today! Gwen, what would you like

this morning? Would you like a shower or wash? I think I'll just

have a wash this morning. Gwen used to care for her husband, Terry, but

a few weeks ago she had a knee replacement, which means they both

need care. Me and my wife couldn't get through the day without having

food and that to have, and I can't do it and my wife can't do it now.

She used to do it all before. Come on. Welch is one of the better

paying councils and paste ?2 above the hourly rate recommended, but

with a 90% of councils not meeting anywhere near this, even big firms

like this are struggling. In 2015 this firm made a loss so they've

pulled out of some local authority contracts. Tough choices for the

director. Some councils haven't even been prepared to pay a rate that

meets your living requirements. So I either had to breach living wage

with those councils, which is clearly not acceptable as a thing to

do, or to say sorry, we just can't do, or to say sorry, we just can't

deliver the service that is right and is legal. We've seen few months

two of the top five providers pull out of the market completely. So not

just some contracts, they've pulled out completely. Is there any moral

quandary about pulling out? There definitely is. The really bad thing

is that people we might have been looking after for a number of years,

we can't do it, but the alternative is to pay our staff and illegal rate

and deliver a quality of service and deliver a quality of service

that would be to the detriment of those individuals. The government

recently announced plans to boost funding for social care by allowing

councils to increase tax at a local level. West Sussex plans to add ?46

a year onto the average council tax bill. The leader of the council is

Louise Goldsmith. Is this a permanent solution? No, this won't

resolve the problem by any means. This is the tip of the iceberg. I

can use lots of analogies. What we need is a real national review to

get the money in, to help our elderly and vulnerable residents. We

desperately, desperately want the Government to start a dialogue. We

will help them and work with them but we need proper funding for our

social care. How are you? Good. Back in Worthing, with their next client,

Karen. She gets help from carers three times a day, seven times a

week. Today it is Viv and Jackie. She suffers from epilepsy so you've

got to know... You know, you've got to get a relationship with Karen.

They are completely reliant on the care they get. You can't always tell

from Karen whether she recognises faces but she recognises voices.

That's important for her, I think. Her main aim in life is to have

somebody to hold her hand and she would be happy to sit all day with

somebody holding her hand. That's what she likes to do. But all too

often, that means it's the goodwill of her carers that plug the gap, as

with so many others. We are with a person, not a tin of Beit beans in

Tesco's. So you can't just say, it is five o'clock, I'm off. And you

are very special, aren't you? Yes! Goodwill doesn't last forever and

it's entirely wrong that care workers should be effectively

subsidising council budgets by doing more work than is required of them.

I think we are in a crisis nationally. We can improve the

service, we can work better collectively, but, yes, there is

more money needed. You think there'll ever be a point where it

gets so tight that you think, we can't provide what we want to

provide to the standard we want to? I hope not. I hope not. I've been in

this field for so long, I've looked after and cared for people for so

many years. I owe it to them to keep going. Onto the next one! Yes.

So, would you be prepared to pay more in council tax to prop up a

failing system? These guys have been letting me know what they think. Why

not email me about it? Here is my address below.

Still to come, one of the strangest friendships you will ever see. Just

so loving! Next, going to see your favourite

band play live should be memorable for all the right reasons. But a

growing number of music fans in the growing number of music fans in the

South say gigs are being ruined by strangers gripping them. This is our

report. There's something

going on at concerts. It's leaving people feeling

isolated and violated. For me, that's not how music

should make you feel. And it's putting a lot

of fans off live music. I was, like, 14 when I started

going to gigs with just my friends. And ever since then it's just been,

like, getting groped and felt up. This guy came up behind me

and he started trying to unzip my shorts and put his hand

down my shorts, and he was just grinding behind me

and wouldn't leave me alone. The attack, and that's

what it was ? an attack - It makes me more angry,

then it makes me upset, because it's happened before

so you get over it So what are you hoping

that we can do out of this? It's getting worse and girls

are giving up and we want to talk We all know gigs are loud,

sweaty and crowded. And sadly, these fans say,

so does being groped. Well, a lot of friends of ours

are just getting grabbed like that, especially in university,

I would say. We've almost become desensitized

to it and think that, "Oh, that's, like, normal behaviour",

but really I think Having spoken to people

from all over the UK, I'm finding out it's

a national problem. There's a support group called

Girls Against that's created an online movement to raise

awareness about these attacks. So far, more than 1,000

girls and some guys have been in touch with them,

all with similar stories of abuse, and it makes me want to know

why this sort of thing is still happening

in the 21st century. People are going to feel

like they can take certain Just because they're not

going to get caught. I've definitely been stood next

to it, in close proximity to it happening in clubs and done nothing

about it, so I guess in that sense I think harrassment

happens everywhere. Anybody who says that they aren't

aware of this sort of thing Ben Newby runs a live music venue

and says crowd safety If you guys are aware that this sort

of thing is going on, what are you actually doing to try

and stop this sort of We work with two great security

firms, and from the moment the complaint is made,

security take it seriously. They deal with everyone involved,

they take it away from everybody But for every good security company

like the ones you've got, there are those that don't have

protocols in place. I think you've been

very polite there. There are some companies that

are terrible, and where our frustration comes in is that

when we can spend money and time putting these in place,

why shouldn't everybody? But should it be up

to the venues alone? The Security Industry

Authority regulates every They make sure each security guard

has the right licences I'm checking out everything

the guards learn to Regulations are pretty

thorough, to be fair. With seven separate required

qualifications needed, covering everything from conflict

management to terrorism training. But music venue manager

Danni Brownshill thinks the SIA We add on to their training

ourselves but it'd be more useful if they came to us completely aware

of these things and it'd An independent report found

this SIA training has But here's the thing -

the training holds only one vague mention of sexual harassment

and offers security guards no guidance on how to act if someone

comes to them after being groped. And this is where victims

have a big problem. Some people have been told not

to dress that way if they don't want to be treated that way,

others have been told to forget about it or told,

"Yeah, we'll report it", I wanted to ask the SIA

if it was time they considered adding victim support

to their training. They initially agreed

to an interview but then cancelled, Evidence we had hoped to show them,

till they cancelled. When a fan told the band Peace

about being assaulted at one of their gigs,

frontman Harry Koisser says they felt they had to step up

and protect their fans. We'd never realised that this

happened at our shows The first thing we did

was kind of my gut feeling, which was after then on stage

to say, "If you feel comfortable doing this,

you have to leave immediately". The girl had said that she'd gone

to security that night and explained what had happened,

the guys had said, "There's nothing we can do", and that just

wasn't really good enough. So our tour manager then had

a security briefing made sure Someone else who thinks change

is long overdue is chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee

and Labour MP Yvette Cooper. It's great to see some of the bands

starting to call it out, but you need much stronger

action from the venue, from security, from everybody,

to say this is unacceptable behaviour and if it happens,

we'll take action on it. The Home Office say they're

confident the SIA's licensing I think the Home Office are going

to need to do more about this, because when it's affecting so many

young women going to gigs being treated in this way,

and there's no proper action to follow it up, I think you've

actually got to look back at both the training,

the response, the way the regulation system works,

to make sure that there's strong With the calls for change now

being heard, and with venues, fans and bands leading by example,

maybe we've taken a step towards reclaiming live

music for everyone. On the way, that stunning footage

from the Dorset coast, but before that, time for an update on one of

our stories. Remove these cute little Pomeranian

is? In 2015, we revealed how Hampshire man was selling puppies

smuggled in illegally from Ireland in the back of this man. -- remember

these dogs? We collected our delivery in these glamorous

surroundings at -- surroundings! He didn't want to chat but back at home

in his shed, we found this collection of gorgeous Westies. But

Louis still wasn't playing ball. Mr Sibley? And completely vanished

find some of his smuggled dogs for find some of his smuggled dogs for

sale online, fetching ?350 per puppy. Here, in this previously on

broadcast footage, are some of the 45 puppies seized from him by

Trading Standards. Unfortunately, 11 of them were sick and died. In court

last week, Louis Sibley, wearing it is a -- wearing his sunglasses,

pleaded guilty. He was given a year's suspended sentence,

rehabilitation activity for 20 hours and ordered to pay more than ?6,000

in costs and compensation. There are some good news -- there is some good

news, too. This is Dylan, one of the pups seized by Trading Standards. He

is loving life with his new family. Now, remember Paul, the World Cup

predicting octopus? It appears his skills weren't a one-off, because

the octopus turns out to be even more intelligent than we first

thought. Time to meet a scientist who a sucker for this eight legged

friend. I work for the marine biology

association and I love my job because I get to work with the most

ageing crook -- amazing creatures, no matter what the weather. While I

am fascinated by all our sea life, I do have a particular favourite. An

animal so unlike us, is almost alien, with eight arms, three hearts

and, in my view, a massive personality. Yes, it's the octopus.

I just love them. And today, we are I just love them. And today, we are

out on Plymouth Sound hoping to catch some native specimens.

We've had some success. Now it's time to get these guys back to the

lab. Monitoring our sea life helps us

understand what's happening to our seas. The octopus we usually see of

the South coast is the cold octopus, and while many species are

struggling, with rising sea temperatures, the octopus is

thriving and we want to understand why.

What we see straightaway is an increase in feeding and growth when

the temperature is just a degree or two higher, and this makes sense,

because the octopus is a because the octopus is a

fast-growing, cold blooded animal. Any increase in temperature will

increase metabolism. This is a relative of the octopus. . They grow

up to 65 centimetres long but these babies are just five centimetres

long. It is their feeding time I've trained them to take pieces of fish.

So what I'm doing is moving the fish around to get their attention.

Normally they would only attack moving prey. That's how they

recognise this is food. They are voracious predators. They hunt is

pretty much all the time. And as well as their tentacles, they've got

this amazing beak, almost like that of a parrot, in two parts, and they

use that to inject a neurotoxin into their prey which kills them in

seconds. I could watch them all day! But what I'm really interested in is

the octopus in its natural habitat. In Dorset, there is a man I very

much want to meet. Local diver Colin has regularly seen

at least one octopus of the 18 mile spit at Chesil Beach. What's more,

on his night dives, when the octopus on his night dives, when the octopus

is most active, he has filmed it. Colin has been diving and filming in

these waters most of his life, yet he had never seen an octopus, let

now. As you can see, initially it now. As you can see, initially it

wants to swim away but then settles down in my presence. Colin, this

it? A friend of mine had reported it? A friend of mine had reported

seeing an octopus and we went diving a few days after that at night, and

unbelievably, we came across the same octopus. How can you tell? My

partner named Tim Hank! You can see he has one arm severed so he's quite

easy to identify. Yes, you can really see his missing arm. So

whereabouts are you? This is at a depth of about 14, 15 metres over

the sandy patch. Do you do a lot of diving? Yes, Chesil Beach is close

to my heart. This is the first time I've ever seen one underwater and

I've been diving since the mid-80s. That's amazing. And you saw this guy

in the same place every night? There or thereabouts. We would have a

location and explore around and within a few minutes, we would find

him. That's interesting because we don't know much about territoriality

in octopus. We feel they have a home area they patrol but unfortunately

there's almost no way of gauging there's almost no way of gauging

this in the wild unless you were as fortunate as yourself, and saw them

night after night, so this is really valuable information for us. There

you go. Not troubled by our presence at all. Especially to feed like

that. That's great. So that's that. That's great. So that's

wonderful. We've just seen him sleep there, and that's something quite

red to film because these are quite shy animals, so to capture that on

film is quite amazing. And Colin's remarkable video reveals yet more

about this shy creature. This is wonderful because you can see a rid

of falls under here. These ourselves which reflect light, emitting

globe which can attract predators. globe which can attract predators.

If they are swimming in the sea, these cells will block out their

silhouettes so they become almost invisible. This is really wonderful.

Wonderful footage. And all of this is filmed just our here. Absolutely

brilliant. Incredible to think that brilliant. Incredible to think that

we have native octopus patrolling the sea bed just off Chesil Beach.

As most of us will never see one in the wild, I've come to the sea life

centre in Weymouth to meet a particularly friendly octopus that

will soon be on show to the public. Luckily I get to go behind the

scenes. Meeting me is chief octopus Wrangler Phil. In the heart of the

building, here are the tanks where Phil looks after the octopus. Like

me, he has found each octopus has its own distinct personality, and

his newest one is very friendly. So this is my newest arrival. He's very

grabby, especially for such a young octopus. It normally takes a couple

of months to build up this sort of trust between a keeper and an

octopus, but she loves it! Not worried about folding up or throwing

lots of water at us, as you can see! What do you love about them?

Normally you expect them to run away but just so loving. From the very

first time, love at first sight, almost! Just put a finger in and

they grabbed you! Ha-ha! So you feel she knows you?

Absolutely. Some of them will only come up every now and then for food

but this girl likes to squirt all of the time. She tends to squirt until

I come back so a lot of the time I'll be here for 20, 30 minutes till

she is happy and I can leave her. You can see by her colour at the

what we're doing. If she was scared what we're doing. If she was scared

or worried, she would be a dark colour, like red or close to black,

but with their colours going on at the moment, you can tell she's

interested but not at all worried. Hey! She's absolutely amazing and it

really goes to show the range of personalities that naturally occur

in a species like this. Personality is something we think of being

distinctly human but this shows animals like sharks, octopus,

cuttlefish, they have distinct personalities that we can see and

test throughout their lifetimes. Leading Phil and his octopus behind,

it's time for me to return the specimens we caught in Plymouth

Sound. Octopus alula for a couple of years so it's time for these years

-- these guys to go back to sea. -- only live for a couple of years.

Time to go, little guys! I feel very privileged to work with these

beguiling creatures and I hope I've given you just a glimpse of why I

find these small animals with very big personalities so fascinating.

Fantastic pictures, weren't they? What is an octopus' favourite

Beatles macro song? I want to hold your hand, hand, hand, hand, hand!

See you next week! Next week, we take a closer look at the honey bee.

Is our sweet tooth threatening its future? We need them so much for

pollination, not just for ourselves and all the fruit and vegetables,

but all the flowers on our landscape and our nature. That's the primary

importance of them. Hello, I'm Riz Lateef

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