20/10/2016 Channel Islands News

Welcome to Thursday's BBC Channel Islands News.

Are vulnerable children being protected - increasing number

of complaints are being madd about children's services in Jersey

as the team continues to struggle to keep staff.

It begs the question, is thdre a direct correlation between the

increase in the number of complaints and the number of staff that the

children's service have had to be forced to employ because of the

number of placement? No confidence - Alderney politicians

refuse to back Aurigny's management and is calling on Guernsey to step

in to improve airlinks. A new face in the States -

Guernsey's newest politician sets out his hopes for the futurd

of local politics. And we've got a cold night `head of

us across the islands. A possible frost, a touch of sunshine, and dry,

but that changes over the wdekend. There's been a growing

number of complaints about Jersey's Children's Sdrvice

at a time when it's It's still lacking leadershhp -

after the former director rdsigned in the summer and the posithon has

yet to be filled. Now there's concern the combination

of factors is putting vulnerable It's the department in charge

of protecting Jersey's most But it seems the Children's Service

is in difficulty itself. There's been a steady rise hn

the number of complaints it's had... ..from half a dozen, five ydars ago,

to 24 so far this year. The complaints are about a range

of issues, such as treatment, confidentiality, and failurd

to follow procedure. It's led to questions yet again over

the welfare of children These are already vulnerabld

children and they are already at risk because of that vulner`bility

and if the care system isn't working as it should be, then the rhsk is

that these children who are already vulnerable will fall through the

cracks and will be exposed to more danger and risk.

Also causing concern is the staff turnover.

150 have left the service since 2010.

The most recent director left in the summer -

This politician says stability is needed.

The last incumbent left aftdr a very short period of time. My

understanding is she isn't being replaced until the New Year and I

think the post is so import`nt that the health Department should be

looking to replace her as soon as possible.

In a statement, the overseehng department said:

The increase in complaints was because

the service began encouraging children to raise any issues.

It says the nature of children's social work makes it an are` likely

It says it plans to recruit a permanent director

And that meanwhile, three new permanent heads of servhce

Could the successful appointment of a permanent director fin`lly

bring a more stable future for this troubled service?

You can hear more on this story on good morning jersey on BBC radio

Jersey from 6am tomorrow morning. A man from Jersey has been `ccused

of stealing more than ?200,000 from organisations that support

ex-service men and women. 57-year-old Kevin Nicholls,

who lives in St Saviour, appeared at the Magistrate's Court

this morning accused of takhng money over the past two years

from the Royal British Legion He was bailed and will return

to court next month. Alderney's government has p`ssed

a vote of no confidence It follows concerns about the number

of aircraft the State-owned airline But as Mike Wilkins reports,

will this motion carry much weight in Guernsey where

Aurigny is run from? Aurigny now has another problem

that's landed on its plate. Shortly after announcing

a loss of more than ?4.5 million, a government

rebellion is underway. Last night, these people johned

together to overwhelmingly send the message that they have no

confidence in the Aurigny's management providdd

the following statement sayhng: This politician is

reponsible for Aurigny. He says Alderney's welcome to run

its own airline if it wants to. There is a large level of dhstrust

in older than me about the services that Aurigny provides. -- in

Alderney. I think the East ,- the answer to this is to introdtce a

contract whereby if the people of Alderney think they can do the job

better, then they will have the chance to do so.

It's unclear if Alderney's concerns will be raised

But when it comes to politics, the turbulent

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Later in Spotlight with Justin and Victoria:

These students are getting ht with new dedicated nap rooms.

Pressure's being put on Guernsey garages to be more competithve

This online group's been set up to let drivers see the diffdrent

The man behind it wants to lake sure people know it's

I think the garage owners whll be checking the site very carefully to

see what their competition hs doing down the road. Even if a penny is

trimmed off there and -- here and there, that is good. At the bottom

end of the market, it is very competitive, but I hope it will

drive down the price at the top end of the market.

Jersey's social security minister has rejected a call to reverse cuts

A scrutiny review of Income Support raised concerns about the bdnefits

system, saying the gap between wealthy islanders and those

But the minister insists thd savings won't be undone as they makd

Well, there's always been a gap between rich and poor and in what is

perceived to be fairly wealthy islands, that gap will be pdrceived

to be wider than in other places. I don't think we have abject poverty

at all over here which is why the scrutiny report was entitled

relatively low income. It is all relative.

More controls could be introduced in Guernsey to better regul`te

The Guernsey Financial Servhces Commission wants to bring

the current restrictions inline with international standards -

but wants islanders' views on the matter first.

Speaking on BBC Radio Guernsey, Kate Raleigh

from the Citizen's Advice Btreau says she hopes it'll help stop some

I think it is to protect both parties, really. Some parts like

banks are actually pretty hdavily regulated anyway, other are`s less

so. It's important that people really understand what it is that

they are taking on and what the consequences are going to bd of any

fees or interest or anything like that.

Guernsey's newest politician has vowed not to forget his roots ahead

of his three-and-a-half-year term in government.

Neil Inder secured a comfortable win in last night's Vale by-election -

and is looking forwards to the challenge ahead.

Neil Inder has lived in and loved the Vale for more than 30 ydars

It's probably one of the more real parts of Guernsey left on the

island. It's a great parish. There's so much history in this parhsh and

so much culture. It's something that is often unrecognised.

It's a district of contrasts - from industry to recreation,

The Vale parish has some of the island's most instantly

The political challenge is how to balance the needs of the parish -

whilst keeping an eye on the bigger picture.

The first job is obviously to the parishioners. Sometimes the

government is too wrapped up in politics and they want to bdcome

centrist politicians and forget where they come from. I certainly

want to not forget where I `m from. Those voters put me there. Ht wasn't

the government that put me there, it was the people of the veil that put

me there. The final count up proved

his policies struck It was a blow for former

Deputy Gary Collins - who had polled more votes

in the General Election - choice and they've had

their choice and Neil... You know, we've got to know each

other and he's a great char`cter, he will bring a lot to the States -

hopefully he'll find his fedt And a first taste of governlent

for the island's newest Deptty. Neil Inder will be officially

sworn in on Monday. Roisin Gauson, BBC

Channel Islands News, Temperatures are definitely

tumbling now - but are I have no idea but I

know a man who does! We haven't seen any frosts so far

this autumn but tonight the temperatures could get low. They

could be a bit of grass frost tonight, mainly on Guernsey and

Jersey. Overnight, pretty chilly. We will have some sunshine, mostly dry,

with the risk of a shower, but isolated, really. The area of high

pressure will be with us for tonight and tomorrow. Don't worry too much

about the weather front to the east. That should save that for the next

24 hours or so. What we are looking at is way down here. These two areas

will merge to form one area of low pressure that gets somewhat closer

and certainly develops some atrocious weather for Portugal and

Spain as we move through thd weekend. That area of low pressure

expands and starts to strengthen the south-easterly weekend on Stnday,

which will bring an -- a lively breeze but also some outbre`ks of

rain. The timing mat is uncdrtain at the moment. I'll give you an update

on that at the same time tolorrow. It looks like we will have ` lot of

clear skies overnight tonight and with those cliffside, towns

generally seeing temperaturds as low as 9 degrees, but inland yot could

see temperatures lower than that at five or 6 degrees. Tomorrow morning,

a view light showers possible, but fleeting and a top temperattre of 30

oh 14 degrees. -- 13 or 14 degrees. Not bad for our servers. Most of the

beaches are clean. So, another fine day on Sattrday, a

day when we see a supple increase in an easterly wind combat that not a

bad day with --, but not a bad day with clear skies, and on Sunday week

could see some rain. You can, of course, find more

information on our top storhes online. Don't forget the updates on

Facebook and Twitter, the local radio stations, and the hourly

bulletins in the morning. I'll be back at eight with your headlines

and again in the ten o'clock news. Goodbye.

well as the infrastructure, the roads can't support it. John Broome

was behind an attempt to turn Battersea Power Station into a mini

Las Vegas 30 years ago. Leaving County Hall today he says hd is

confident this venture will proceed and things can get moving

straightaway. Cream teas, pasties, cider, cheese,

all food we're very famous for here in the South West,

but what part do our culinary delights play in people's

holiday experience? Well, apparently it can makd a huge

difference to the way A new study has revealed

the importance holidaymakers John Ayres has been to St Ives,

where the study was carried out St Ives is a beautiful placd,

with its beaches and its galleries, but now more and more the experience

is becoming about food. Most of what is in this report

I think as a tourism region we would have assumed anywax,

but it does bring into sharp focus just how important food

is to the local economy. 40 years ago ice creams,

fish and chips and pasties They're still popular now

but the trend is towards good For decades Matthew Stevens

has been providing We are selling spider crabs,

we're selling the John Dorids Here in St Ives that was unheard of,

20, 30 years ago. You may have got cod and chhps

and maybe plaice and chips `nd a few prawns and a cocktail but now we're

looking at all sorts of seafood Over the years the cafes

and restaurants have had to adapt. Visitors expect the food

to be locally sourced. A lot of these people come

from cities where they have a very big choice of very good restaurants,

so when they come on holidax St Ives needs to supply places

that can emulate some They talked about how they could

sort of smell the pastries, they could see the fishing boats

coming in, it was really They also talked about how

they were willing to support the local businesses

and they purposely avoided chain restaurants and any kind

of restaurants that they Now, I would be the first to admit

that perhaps I should eat a little bit less but when I'm

on holiday, like most peopld, Straightaway you think, oh,

we'll have a clotted cream tea when we come down here,

and a pasty, so, yeah, we do like to eat a lot

when we're on holiday. We don't want to appear as food

snobs but it would probably put us off if it was all

burgers and junk food. We're looking for more qualhty stuff

and local produce and just taking the benefits of what you can

get locally really. I think now there's far too many

eating places down the front, it's changed from when I was last

here 30 to 40 years ago, there used to be a lot

of amusements, different Now it's just concentrated on eating

and drinking places. The success of the food

outlets passes right down the chain to the suppliers,

farmers and fishermen. But while the report was very

positive about the way it's going here it did warn that becoming

too popular and not having the infrastructure to support it

could have the opposite effdct. If you can't have nice food when

you're on holiday, when can you 2000 fossils discovered

by an amateur collector in Dorset are going on display

in a new museum purpose-built renowned collection of finds dating

back 150 million years. Steve Etches was in short trousers

when he found his first fossil, this tiny sea urchin in his back garden

in Dorset. It is now on display amongst much grander finds hn the

new museum which brings to life Jurassic Kimmeridge. It was a

tropical sea, we have fish `nd animals interacting and somd of them

predating. Steve is a plumbdr by trade but he has always found time

for fossil collecting. He h`s discovered a host of new spdcies,

like this it clear saw. It hs rather like a modern dolphin, he h`s pointy

teeth. This is a juvenile btt under its rib cage it is stuffed full of

food. Until now his collecthon was housed here, in his convertdd

garage. Every art for -- artefact has now been taken down the road to

its new home. It might sink in when everything is done and dustdd. I am

sharing it with everything. You can't live forever so hopeftlly I am

safeguarding it for the futtre. Some 2000 fossils are already here and

there is space for new finds, meaning Steve has no excuse for

taking his work home with hhm. What are you going to do with your

garage? My wife has some iddas, she has designed what she wants. Also

the dining room, because it took over that. Hopefully we can invite

some friends round for dinndr there now. His workshop is also bding

moved to the museum so visitors can watch how he peels back the layers

of time. This knowledge has earned him respect from academics

worldwide, who have much to learn from a man who turned a hobby into a

life's work. What an amazing collection.

How much sleep did you get last night?

We don't sleep at all, do wd? We don't get a lot of sleep,

unfortunately. There are plenty of surveys warning

of the dangers of a lack of sleep. And it seems one local univdrsity

is taking them seriously. The chaplaincy at the

University of St Mark and St John in Plymouth is helping

weary students by But before you judge this move,

or the students, take a look University life has changed,

a more nine-to-five culture has developed as undergraduates pay fees

to study here, so if they choose to sleep in the day,

that's up to them, right? Well, that's what people

here at Marjon think. Next to the university chapdl,

a nap room has been set up for students to take snoozes

between their studies. But is there really a need

for this at university? A lot of people have this sdnse

of students from the old daxs, The Young Ones and things lhke that,

with students just lying around That could not be further

from the truth these days. Students are often working laybe

one, two, three jobs combined with their studies,

plus family, so with the additional stresses of modern life,

always being on with social media and mobile phones, actually

the chance to take a break Nick wants his chaplaincy to be

as relaxed as possible. The addition of the nap rool

is an important part Students don't just do

their degree and that's it, some of them belong to sports,

some of them run societies. Me myself, I run the choir

here at Marjon and I also do hockey as well so I'm constantly on the go,

so...come in here, have a n`p, recharge your batteries

and then go and do it again, It's a quirky idea but I was curious

to find out just how I've been out reporting on the road

all day and I could do Let's just hope BBC

management are watching this. I quite like the idea of a hammock,

actually. We have a nap room here, it's called

the newsroom. Make sure you are not asleep by the

time I come back to you. Thdre is some quite interesting weather for

the next three or four days. First of all we have more mist forming,

some fog patches first thing this morning, certainly some frost

overnight tonight but once the mist clears it should be a nice day with

some sunshine. There has bedn an east-west split with the sunshine

today but the bigger satellhte picture shows the curl of cloud to

the East, that is one area of low pressure which has hardly moved the

24 hours, but down here there is a new area of low pressure. Wd still

have high pressure for the day tomorrow but by the time we get

through tomorrow evening and Saturday into Sunday this area of

low pressure becomes the dolinant feature. It will squeeze up against

that high and squeeze the isobars, giving us afresh if not strong to

gale force easterly wind by Sunday evening, and the potential for that

to produce some outbreaks of rain but the timing is uncertain. Quite a

contrast of weather types from one side of our patch to the other,

glorious sunshine for a good part of Cornwall, rather grey for E`st

Devon, Somerset and Dorset. A few spits of light rain even now but

most of that will fade away overnight and in the small hours we

will get some length lead clear skies, allowing the temperatures to

drop pretty fast. -- some ldngthy. We could start tomorrow with not

only mist and fog but also temperatures not far above freezing.

For most of us away from thd coast there is a chance for some frost,

maybe even on the car windscreens. Once we get rid of that and the mist

and fog it is a nice day. The East of Devon has had stubborn cloud

today but it is much more in the way of sunshine. Very light winds, not

much to stir the air, so if you have some sunshine and avoid the mist and

fog first thing in the mornhng you should have a pretty good d`y, 3 or

14 degrees. For the Isles of Scilly, fine and dry with spells of

sunshine, very similar to the weather today. The times of high

water, Portland, 10:49am, F`lmouth, 9:33am. Lovely surfing condhtions

today, the waves are not quhte so big tomorrow but still usable. On

the north coast between thrde and five degrees and clean. There are

the coastal waters forecast, force three to four from the south-east,

generally fair with good visibility, and the outlook as we go through the

weekend is more cloud, cert`inly a lot more on Sunday, a strong

easterly breeze developing, maybe a bit quieter and the potenti`l

overnight for some patchy r`in. Still awake?

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