:00:00. > :00:08.The headlines from BBC Look North this Tuesday night.
:00:09. > :00:11.Care in crisis - there are calls for government action to deal
:00:12. > :00:18.Each week that goes by, care providers are coming out of
:00:19. > :00:24.Police and firearms experts seize weapons and explosives
:00:25. > :00:30.Claims that bird flu precautions are being ignored threatening
:00:31. > :00:37.And it's set to get milder over the next 24 hours and that will
:00:38. > :00:40.I will be back later in the programme
:00:41. > :00:55.The man who represents the country's local councils says the underfunding
:00:56. > :00:58.of social care is so bad that authorities are at breaking point.
:00:59. > :01:03.One council leader in our area says things can't go
:01:04. > :01:06.on as they are and the Government needs to address the problem.
:01:07. > :01:11.An ageing population means that the demand for adult care
:01:12. > :01:14.is likely to increase in the coming years.
:01:15. > :01:18.Our political editor Tim Iredale reports.
:01:19. > :01:26.At the age of 91, Eileen receives help from carers at her home
:01:27. > :01:30.With talk of care crisis, many families are choosing to pay
:01:31. > :01:40.privately for services rather than relying the council.
:01:41. > :01:43.I mean, you hear this about ten minute visits
:01:44. > :01:47.What can you actually do in ten minutes?
:01:48. > :01:49.But an elderly person, you walk into their home, whether it's
:01:50. > :01:51.just giving them some medication, you can't just,
:01:52. > :01:53."Here you go, medication," and get out.
:01:54. > :01:56.When we talk about social care, what do we actually mean?
:01:57. > :01:58.Social care to me is fulfilling people's lives
:01:59. > :02:02.Becki has worked in the care sector for ten years.
:02:03. > :02:04.She says it's not just the elderly who need looking
:02:05. > :02:08.Those individual people could maybe have learning difficulties, they
:02:09. > :02:13.might be paralysed through traffic accidents, that sort of thing,
:02:14. > :02:17.have different conditions so we've got customers
:02:18. > :02:19.with Huntington's disease, motor neuron disease, Parkinson's,
:02:20. > :02:22.all those conditions that can be safely managed within the homes
:02:23. > :02:27.but do make life limiting for the individual sufferer.
:02:28. > :02:29.Recent years have seen council tax increases
:02:30. > :02:32.limited to 2% but this year, the government is allowing local
:02:33. > :02:44.what's known as a precept to help pay the social care.
:02:45. > :02:48.Any rise above 5% must be put to local people in a referendum.
:02:49. > :02:50.But even with that increase, some local authorities say
:02:51. > :02:53.The leader of North East Lincolnshire Council
:02:54. > :02:56.is writing to the government, urging a total rethink on the way health
:02:57. > :03:00.They're not like the leafy suburbs of
:03:01. > :03:03.Westminster where they have got a high council tax base.
:03:04. > :03:06.Because we have got low housing costs, our
:03:07. > :03:09.council tax raise of 3% will equate to about, I don't know,
:03:10. > :03:12.to two fifths of what they're going to bring in.
:03:13. > :03:16.We've got more deprivation and more need in our area
:03:17. > :03:21.for older people services but we raise less money than the
:03:22. > :03:25.leafy suburbs of Westminster so it's an unfair system.
:03:26. > :03:28.So council leaders appear to be locked in a
:03:29. > :03:31.war of words with the government over the cost of care,
:03:32. > :03:37.Tim Iredale, BBC Look North, Grimsby.
:03:38. > :03:40.Earlier I spoke to Lord Porter of Spalding who is the Chairman
:03:41. > :03:43.of the Local Government Association and the leader of South
:03:44. > :03:48.He told me that the government has been told just how
:03:49. > :03:54.Local government has been making a very strong case.
:03:55. > :03:57.We're ?1.3 billion short in the immediate period,
:03:58. > :04:02.raising to ?2.6 billion over the life of this Parliament.
:04:03. > :04:05.We need extra direct funding put into adult social care
:04:06. > :04:08.So, the Government said it would create a
:04:09. > :04:10.sustainable system for everyone who needs social care,
:04:11. > :04:16.They've got a cross-department group looking at it at the moment.
:04:17. > :04:18.I'm hoping that local government finance settlement
:04:19. > :04:28.had been delayed because they're going to try to find some new money.
:04:29. > :04:31.But if they don't, the care crisis will worsen.
:04:32. > :04:33.I'm almost certain that you'll see reports
:04:34. > :04:36.over the next few weeks that give a greater example of how that is.
:04:37. > :04:39.There's probably over a million people now not receiving
:04:40. > :04:41.adequate funding for the adult care that they need.
:04:42. > :04:43.Would you feel comfortable if we heard those figures there, 3%,
:04:44. > :04:47.5%, if we were talking about 10%, 15%, would you be happy about that
:04:48. > :04:50.to go on the council tax bills to pay this and get it sorted out
:04:51. > :04:54.Council tax isn't the way to sort this problem out.
:04:55. > :04:56.This problem needs to be resolved through national taxation and that
:04:57. > :04:59.doesn't mean to say we need to pay more, it just means
:05:00. > :05:02.we need to spend the money we are spending better.
:05:03. > :05:04.I used the word crisis, is it a crisis?
:05:05. > :05:06.Some people use the word crisis, I'm preferring to
:05:07. > :05:08.wait for crisis to come in the future.
:05:09. > :05:11.But we're at breaking point now, there is ?1.3 billion extra needed.
:05:12. > :05:13.Each week that goes by, care providers are coming out of
:05:14. > :05:21.A 46-year-old man has died after it's believed
:05:22. > :05:24.he was struck by steel that fell from a van in Hull.
:05:25. > :05:26.Humberside Police and the Health and Safety Executive
:05:27. > :05:30.are investigating the incident on Vulcan Street off Clough Road
:05:31. > :05:37.Police have seized firearms from a firing range and explosives
:05:38. > :05:43.The operation is being carried out at Skydock, which is at the former
:05:44. > :05:46.RAF Faldingworth base near Market Rasen.
:05:47. > :05:50.Police are working with military firearms experts after
:05:51. > :05:53.the Home Office withdrew a licence to store weapons.
:05:54. > :06:11.There is still a police presence here this evening at Skydock which
:06:12. > :06:15.sits on a 1000 acres set of blood which used to be an RAF base. There
:06:16. > :06:20.is lots of different facilities here from a firing range to storage or
:06:21. > :06:24.weapons and ammunition. And also for explosives to be tested here as
:06:25. > :06:27.well. What has happened today released to a specific licence and
:06:28. > :06:30.that license covers a range of things normally used by the police
:06:31. > :06:36.and the military like automatic guns, missiles, gases. That licence
:06:37. > :06:39.has been revoked by the Home Office and Lincolnshire Police said it is
:06:40. > :06:43.compared with military firearm experts and it has been removing
:06:44. > :06:47.weapons that are stored here in it's own words, to McCain this security
:06:48. > :06:51.and to ensure public safety. That is what they said about why they are
:06:52. > :06:57.doing it. -- maintain public security.
:06:58. > :07:00.How long with the operation take? Today was day two of their
:07:01. > :07:03.operation, the joint operation between the police and the military
:07:04. > :07:07.experts. Lincolnshire Police has told us there is a lot to do and it
:07:08. > :07:12.does expect this operation to go on for many days more. The BBC has
:07:13. > :07:14.contacted Skydock for comment today but it declined to say anything.
:07:15. > :07:17.Thank you very much indeed. People are deliberately ignoring
:07:18. > :07:20.rules designed to stop the spread of bird flu and putting millions
:07:21. > :07:23.of chickens and turkeys at risk That's according to farmers -
:07:24. > :07:26.who want people to report neighbours who break the rules
:07:27. > :07:31.to the authorities. 30000 birds have died
:07:32. > :07:33.after three outbreaks Our rural affairs correspondent
:07:34. > :07:39.Linsey Smith reports. Strolling around without
:07:40. > :07:42.a care in the world. But the owner of these
:07:43. > :07:45.guinea fowl should have. The Government has ordered that
:07:46. > :07:48.all poultry be kept indoors And for granting these
:07:49. > :07:54.speckled hens their freedom, She is following the rules, however
:07:55. > :08:03.difficult, and is angry about those
:08:04. > :08:06.who are not. I think they should be named
:08:07. > :08:08.and shamed and I've been spreading it around my friends,
:08:09. > :08:11.you know, one or two has said, "I've only got two, it
:08:12. > :08:14.doesn't apply to me." I get quite annoyed
:08:15. > :08:17.because one, it's not fair on their birds for their
:08:18. > :08:19.own welfare but also when the restrictions
:08:20. > :08:23.are lifted a bit, as we're hoping in March,
:08:24. > :08:28.are those birds now carriers? 30,000 birds have been
:08:29. > :08:30.culled in our area so far It was discovered
:08:31. > :08:34.at a farm near Louth in December where 5000
:08:35. > :08:37.birds were culled. The second case, two weeks later,
:08:38. > :08:40.was in Fulstow where And the latest outbreak was last
:08:41. > :08:48.month in Boston, again at a turkey farm, where 19,000
:08:49. > :08:51.birds were affected. One gram of infected bird faeces
:08:52. > :08:57.is enough to kill a million birds so that gives you a scale of how
:08:58. > :09:01.serious this disease is which can be spread sort of from a car tyre,
:09:02. > :09:04.it can be spread from a boot, Well, there are hundreds of poultry
:09:05. > :09:09.farms in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire employing
:09:10. > :09:10.thousands of people and those jobs rely
:09:11. > :09:12.on the prosperity, the health
:09:13. > :09:13.of these flocks. And Defra say that the only way
:09:14. > :09:16.to ensure that at the moment is Shoppers who prefer local,
:09:17. > :09:19.free range eggs could Farms in high risk zones may
:09:20. > :09:28.lose their free range status Another reason why keeping this
:09:29. > :09:34.disease contained is so important. In football tonight,
:09:35. > :09:42.Scunthorpe United were held to a 0-0 In League Two, Grimsby Town also
:09:43. > :10:00.drew 0-0, away against Newport. Let's get the post as bat forecast
:10:01. > :10:11.for tomorrow. Here is Keeley. If you are getting a bit bored
:10:12. > :10:16.of it being so cold out there, you'll be pleased to know
:10:17. > :10:18.it is going to get milder overnight tonight and then
:10:19. > :10:20.that will last over the next three days
:10:21. > :10:23.and into next week as well. So a lot of cloud overnight,
:10:24. > :10:25.perhaps a little bit of haziness, mistiness,
:10:26. > :10:28.and there could be a little bit But frost-free with temperatures
:10:29. > :10:32.down to around six or seven Celsius. So, tomorrow, a lot of cloud
:10:33. > :10:34.through the morning, there might even be some residual dampness
:10:35. > :10:37.but we should see a little bit of Overall though, a lot
:10:38. > :10:40.of cloud through tomorrow showery rain spreading up
:10:41. > :10:43.from the south but even once that arrives,
:10:44. > :10:46.we still could get the odd Temperatures in places
:10:47. > :10:50.into double figures. It doesn't look too bad
:10:51. > :10:56.for Thursday and Friday. That is it from us tonight. We are
:10:57. > :10:58.back in the morning at breakfast and I will be back tomorrow night at
:10:59. > :11:05.half past six. Good night. weather into the weekend. A bit of
:11:06. > :11:08.fog around to watch out for. Jon Hammond with the national forecast
:11:09. > :11:09.now. Good evening. There is