:00:00. > 3:59:59Arsenal in Europe. Natalie thank you very much again at the Emirates
:00:00. > :00:00.Stadium. In Look East Tonight:
:00:00. > :00:00.Counting the cost of care - the residential homes claiming
:00:07. > :00:08.a higher living wage And a U-turn from Northamptonshire
:00:09. > :00:13.police over controversial plans to move out of their old HQ to make
:00:14. > :00:18.way for a new school. And I'll be here with your local
:00:19. > :00:21.forecast, which remains a First tonight, a warning that a rise
:00:22. > :00:34.to the national living wage could spell closure for several care
:00:35. > :00:38.homes across the region. The chancellor is expected
:00:39. > :00:41.to outline extra financial support for the care industry
:00:42. > :00:43.in tomorrow's budget. But some residential home owners say
:00:44. > :00:46.that won't be enough Another busy morning
:00:47. > :00:56.at Langdon House in Cambridge, 51 people being cared for by up
:00:57. > :01:01.to 30 staff covering three The home already pays them
:01:02. > :01:08.above the living wage, many with people on up
:01:09. > :01:11.to ?10 an hour. We invest in our staff,
:01:12. > :01:14.we ask all of our staff to take a level two,
:01:15. > :01:16.level three qualifications and our managers have level five
:01:17. > :01:18.or degree qualifications, But Langdon House is in a more
:01:19. > :01:28.privileged position than many care homes, 80% of its clients
:01:29. > :01:31.are privately funded, Meaning, with careful budget
:01:32. > :01:37.planning they can tackle the living wage rise in salaries head on,
:01:38. > :01:40.or even ahead of time. There are care homes who have closed
:01:41. > :01:47.nationally, over the years. And they will continue to close,
:01:48. > :01:49.particularly small homes, it won't be viable for
:01:50. > :01:51.them to continue. East Anglian law firm
:01:52. > :01:56.Ashton's recently hosted They asked care home bosses
:01:57. > :02:01.which would have more impact, Unexpectedly, two
:02:02. > :02:06.thirds said the latter. The main worry is how much
:02:07. > :02:10.councils will pay for care. The amount which local authorities
:02:11. > :02:13.are able to pay is much lower than the rates
:02:14. > :02:18.which private people pay. And, as wages are the biggest
:02:19. > :02:21.components of fixed costs, anything which drives up costs
:02:22. > :02:25.where revenue is falling, The students hoping to go into this
:02:26. > :02:36.sector said better salaries would encourage more people
:02:37. > :02:39.to do the same. Well, who doesn't like more money,
:02:40. > :02:42.I suppose, but yeah, it sounds like a really good idea
:02:43. > :02:46.and hopefully it will entice more With an ageing population,
:02:47. > :02:51.the demand for care home places The fear is, if managers haven't
:02:52. > :02:58.planned for the salary changes forecast for the next three years,
:02:59. > :03:01.their businesses may not survive. Well, Mousumi Bakshi has been
:03:02. > :03:07.taking a closer look at the story, and Mo just
:03:08. > :03:11.what is the national living wage? Well it was introduced last year
:03:12. > :03:14.for people over the age of 25, to better reflect the cost of living
:03:15. > :03:18.for that age bracket. At the moment it stands
:03:19. > :03:22.at ?7.20 an hour. That will rise to ?7.50
:03:23. > :03:27.in April and by 2020, Now clearly these improved pay
:03:28. > :03:33.rates will attract more A profession that is
:03:34. > :03:36.struggling to recruit. The care home sector has
:03:37. > :03:40.received a lot of bad press. There've have been undercover
:03:41. > :03:43.reports showing abuse in a small number of homes,
:03:44. > :03:48.and the pressures facing staff. The jobs may be rewarding
:03:49. > :03:51.but they're tough so higher Well many care homes are run
:03:52. > :03:59.by charities or nonprofit companies and thousands get funding
:04:00. > :04:02.from local councils. That funding is being outstripped
:04:03. > :04:05.by the sheer number of elderly It's not enough to cover the wage
:04:06. > :04:14.bill and run a care home. So what we're likely to see is more
:04:15. > :04:17.private care home places, or, as you heard in Anna's
:04:18. > :04:19.report, potential closures. All eyes are on tomorrow's
:04:20. > :04:22.budget where we expect the Chancellor to announce extra
:04:23. > :04:26.social care funding. A round-up of those budget headlines
:04:27. > :04:36.tomorrow on Look East. A young offenders centre in
:04:37. > :04:41.Milton Keynes "requires improvement" according to a new
:04:42. > :04:43.inspection report. Oakhill, which is run by G4S,
:04:44. > :04:46.holds up to 80 boys aged between 12 and 18 who've been
:04:47. > :04:48.sentenced or remanded to custody. The report uncovered rising levels
:04:49. > :04:51.of violence, with over 200 assaults on staff and young people
:04:52. > :05:01.in just six months last year. Just months after agreeing to sell
:05:02. > :05:04.its Wootton Hall headquarters, Northamptonshire Police has
:05:05. > :05:07.announced it's staying put. The deal was struck by the previous
:05:08. > :05:11.Police and Crime Commissioner, Adam Simmonds, who agreed the sale
:05:12. > :05:14.on his final day in the job. The force was supposed to move
:05:15. > :05:18.into a new building, That will now be used
:05:19. > :05:23.as an accommodation block. This was meant to be the site
:05:24. > :05:33.of a new headquarters for Police and Fire Services in
:05:34. > :05:36.Northamptonshire. Cherry Hall Road in Kettering
:05:37. > :05:39.will still be built, Selling this site would have netted
:05:40. > :05:49.the force ?3.4 million. The then Police and
:05:50. > :05:50.Crime Commissioner, Adam Simmonds, who approved
:05:51. > :05:53.the sale, said a modern police force A HQ that holds onto 400 people
:05:54. > :06:00.who are not actually police officers, but back office
:06:01. > :06:02.staff, isn't necessary. They can be in police stations,
:06:03. > :06:05.they can be in other But ten months and one
:06:06. > :06:09.new Police and Crime It's not fit for purpose,
:06:10. > :06:14.it's not fit for purpose now. What the PCC now, Stephen Mold, has
:06:15. > :06:17.said is he will invest in this site. That's an option that
:06:18. > :06:19.wasn't available before. If we do nothing on this site
:06:20. > :06:22.but leave it as it is, it will become even less fit
:06:23. > :06:27.for purpose in the future. Good news for police staff though,
:06:28. > :06:30.is bad news for Wootton Park School. The plan had been for it
:06:31. > :06:35.to move into Wootton Hall That won't now happen,
:06:36. > :06:40.meaning its students will continue to be taught in these temporary
:06:41. > :06:43.classrooms while plans are drawn up for a new,
:06:44. > :06:46.permanent home elsewhere A site which, ten months ago,
:06:47. > :06:52.was remote and not fit for purpose will now be retained
:06:53. > :06:55.and in some parts, rebuilt. Northamptonshire Police said that
:06:56. > :07:03.overall the decision not to leave Wootton Hall will actually
:07:04. > :07:05.save money in the long term. But questions remain over how much
:07:06. > :07:08.has been spent on legal fees in pursuit of an ambitious move
:07:09. > :07:12.which now won't happen. Well, earlier I spoke
:07:13. > :07:16.to Northamptonshire's Police I began by asking him why he decided
:07:17. > :07:22.to pull the plug on the deal It's the best thing
:07:23. > :07:27.to do for the taxpayers of Northamptonshire,
:07:28. > :07:29.it drives the best value, but also it's good for the staff
:07:30. > :07:32.and provides them certainty And thankfully, with the great
:07:33. > :07:38.work we've been doing with the education funding
:07:39. > :07:40.authority, it means that actually we can keep the school
:07:41. > :07:43.there and we can build on the bonds that were originally
:07:44. > :07:47.conceived for the idea. But this is a complete U-turn
:07:48. > :07:49.on what your predecessor Adam Simmonds had planned,
:07:50. > :07:53.it's quite a bold move, isn't it? Well, it was kind of
:07:54. > :07:57.a situation that I inherited. The deal was signed on the afternoon
:07:58. > :08:01.after I was elected but before I took office, and quite frankly,
:08:02. > :08:04.I was given some significant costs And really, given the challenge
:08:05. > :08:11.of keeping people safe in Northamptonshire,
:08:12. > :08:17.it's right that we do the right thing, but also we get
:08:18. > :08:20.to keep the school as well. So are you saying that the sale
:08:21. > :08:23.was the wrong decision Let's put it this way,
:08:24. > :08:27.it's not a decision I would have made had I been the Police
:08:28. > :08:30.and Crime Commissioner at that time, otherwise we would not have made
:08:31. > :08:33.the decision we have got now And what about the financial
:08:34. > :08:37.implications here? How much money has already been
:08:38. > :08:41.spent that could have been saved? To be honest, yes, there has been
:08:42. > :08:44.some money that has been spent, But actually it is the human cost
:08:45. > :08:49.that worries me more because actually we've created
:08:50. > :08:53.uncertainty for police staff, it's But some money has already
:08:54. > :09:03.been sent hasn't it, But some money has already
:09:04. > :09:14.been spent hasn't it, that the site in Kettering,
:09:15. > :09:16.the development is underway? The Kettering site, the original
:09:17. > :09:19.concept for the site in Kettering was actually to bring together some
:09:20. > :09:22.of that, you know we have Corby police station,
:09:23. > :09:24.some of those site there, the cells at Corby police station
:09:25. > :09:26.are not fit for purpose. So literally, the original concept
:09:27. > :09:29.was to actually deliver that. We can now, if you like, return it
:09:30. > :09:32.to its original core purpose, will still be using that,
:09:33. > :09:35.we have 36 buildings across We want to make sure we bring that
:09:36. > :09:39.down and bring our people together A scheme to reduce congestion at one
:09:40. > :09:43.of the region's busiest road junctions has been put
:09:44. > :09:44.to public consultation. The Black Cat roundabout
:09:45. > :09:47.near St Neots is a notorious The plans include improving
:09:48. > :09:50.the junction with the A1, and dualling the A428
:09:51. > :09:51.towards Cambridge. The Government says updating
:09:52. > :09:54.transport links will bring economic We'll be back with our
:09:55. > :10:03.Breakfast bulletins But there's just time to leave
:10:04. > :10:07.you with the forecast, here's Julie. Outbreaks of rain spreading
:10:08. > :10:10.eastwards during tonight, some of that rain is likely to be
:10:11. > :10:13.on the heavy side and it's one of those strange nights
:10:14. > :10:15.where temperatures are actually going to rise later on,
:10:16. > :10:17.back to around eight Tomorrow's weather is very dependent
:10:18. > :10:21.on this weather front which will develop a bit of a way,
:10:22. > :10:24.so it's been quite difficult to tell exactly how quickly
:10:25. > :10:26.it's going to pull away. But it does look like a cloudy
:10:27. > :10:29.start to the day tomorrow Eventually we will probably see
:10:30. > :10:33.a bit of brightness and sunshine But even where we've got
:10:34. > :10:36.the cloud and the rain, temperatures around 11 Celsius
:10:37. > :10:39.and they may even get a few degrees higher where we get
:10:40. > :10:42.the best of any sunshine And we finish the day hopefully
:10:43. > :10:45.with the last of that rain eventually clearing away
:10:46. > :10:47.to the east. In a moment, the national forecast,
:10:48. > :10:50.but I'll leave you with the outlook and after a damp start to Thursday,
:10:51. > :10:53.it should be largely fine and dry with hopefully a bit
:10:54. > :10:55.of brightness and sunshine. Friday morning, cloud around
:10:56. > :10:58.with some outbreaks of light rain and drizzle and then some wet
:10:59. > :11:00.and windy weather for Then we should see some spells
:11:01. > :11:05.of sunshine developing. rain on Saturday. The national
:11:06. > :11:13.picture now from Nick Miller. It looks like next week high
:11:14. > :11:17.pressure will become a player again in our weather, settling things down
:11:18. > :11:21.for some of us for a time but until then it is low-pressure, rain moving
:11:22. > :11:25.across the UK overnight but not wet all the time. Many of us at a fine
:11:26. > :11:29.day today, this was at you from West Yorkshire and Yorkshire and northern
:11:30. > :11:33.England and Northern Ireland will farewell tomorrow, after this
:11:34. > :11:35.frontal system has pushed on through the UK