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:00:00. > :00:00.Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.
:00:00. > :00:11.Tonight: How deep is the crisis in Yorkshire's care home industry?
:00:12. > :00:15.Our cameras get round-the-clock access to a residential home.
:00:16. > :00:18.And customers see red as the last two banks in Elland make
:00:19. > :00:26.a controversial withdrawal from the High Street.
:00:27. > :00:33.The weather is changing overnight. The forecast shortly.
:00:34. > :00:36.First tonight, just how much pressure are our care homes under?
:00:37. > :00:39.Research by BBC Yorkshire has revealed that the
:00:40. > :00:45.Figures show that an extra 5,000 social care workers have been
:00:46. > :00:48.recruited in our region over the past three years
:00:49. > :00:50.That should mean the number of vacancies is falling -
:00:51. > :01:01.Now that number has doubled to over 6,000.
:01:02. > :01:02.Meanwhile, in homes across our region
:01:03. > :01:05.the figure for staff turnover is 28% -
:01:06. > :01:10.That's more than 90 social care workers in Yorkshire
:01:11. > :01:16.Carla Fowler was invited into St Cecilia's home
:01:17. > :01:19.in Scarborough to see what life is like on the care
:01:20. > :01:27.Day shift starts at 7.15 here at St Cecilia's nursing
:01:28. > :01:31.Sue is due to have her weekly shower this morning
:01:32. > :01:33.but first she must take her medication.
:01:34. > :01:36.This is a medium-sized home, housing in total around 40
:01:37. > :01:40.Each have different, complex needs, ranging from dementia
:01:41. > :01:46.This is the constant soundtrack to their lives.
:01:47. > :01:51.Room buzzers calling for help 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
:01:52. > :01:53.Normally eight care workers and two nurses staff
:01:54. > :01:55.a morning shift but today Sue Gregory
:01:56. > :02:09.Because the population has got bigger hospitals can't keep them
:02:10. > :02:11.so the nurses are taking more, what they would not
:02:12. > :02:21.There is a chronic national shortage of
:02:22. > :02:24.nurses, and since the Brexit vote, nursing applicants from the EU have
:02:25. > :02:28.St Cecilia's just can't recruit enough.
:02:29. > :02:30.It's the health care assistants, or HCAs
:02:31. > :02:32.who look after all the needs of the residents.
:02:33. > :02:40.When you're rushing around you can't always get to everyone on time.
:02:41. > :02:42.It's quite upsetting and disheartening when you
:02:43. > :02:44.find out that people earn more just stacking shelves,
:02:45. > :02:50.You're not falling, you're all right.
:02:51. > :02:56.The care sector is quite like a dead end job.
:02:57. > :02:58.I know it sounds horrible but you can't
:02:59. > :03:06.I love my job, don't get me wrong, but it's not what I want to
:03:07. > :03:11.So far it's what I want to do forever.
:03:12. > :03:19.Most care workers are paid just above the minimum wage.
:03:20. > :03:22.The local authority pays St Cecilia's
:03:23. > :03:24.around ?500 per week for one person's 24/7 care.
:03:25. > :03:27.There is not enough money for more staff.
:03:28. > :03:29.The smallest providers are the ones that are
:03:30. > :03:37.That is what we have had to do in this instance is to
:03:38. > :03:44.There is a lot of small operators in this town.
:03:45. > :03:46.The way things are going we are going to
:03:47. > :03:48.lose a few in the next couple of years.
:03:49. > :03:49.Meanwhile, social services and hospitals
:03:50. > :03:51.call two or three times a
:03:52. > :04:04.Yes, but I've had to put them off because we've already just had one
:04:05. > :04:07.There's another one supposed to be coming but we've no
:04:08. > :04:12.idea what is going on with the hospital.
:04:13. > :04:14.Tonight's on shift nurse has called in sick.
:04:15. > :04:16.An agency nurse has had to be drafted in.
:04:17. > :04:19.She's the clinical lead for the night in a home she's
:04:20. > :04:21.Is this the cupboard for the medications?
:04:22. > :04:29.Just being an agency nurse, this is the sort of thing
:04:30. > :04:39.I have had the handover from the day staff so I am quite
:04:40. > :04:47.There are concerns EU carers like her will become
:04:48. > :04:52.increasingly scarce as Brexit progresses.
:04:53. > :04:54.Every resident here is somebody's mother, father, loved one.
:04:55. > :05:01.But often those closest to them are the workers who care.
:05:02. > :05:03.The Government says it's investing an extra ?2 billion
:05:04. > :05:06.in the industry over the next three years.
:05:07. > :05:09.Mike Padgham owns the care home featured in Carla's report.
:05:10. > :05:16.At the time of economic crisis that we've got,
:05:17. > :05:19.local authorities who purchase most of the care across the country,
:05:20. > :05:21.and in North Yorkshire particularly, are strapped for cash themselves.
:05:22. > :05:23.The Government says it's given them 2 billion extra
:05:24. > :05:27.but that's not enough, that only gets us back
:05:28. > :05:34.We get just under ?3 per hour to look after those with dementia.
:05:35. > :05:37.We want to pay staff ?9 or ?10 per hour.
:05:38. > :05:42.The trouble with our society is that we do not register that kind
:05:43. > :05:49.Social care has always been a Cinderella service.
:05:50. > :05:51.Doctors and nurses do a fantastic job, but social care
:05:52. > :05:55.We need to get more on board, they need to earn more
:05:56. > :06:02.What better way of doing things could there be than that?
:06:03. > :06:04.Next tonight, concerns are being raised about the closure
:06:05. > :06:07.of the last two remaining bank branches in a West
:06:08. > :06:12.Both Barclays and Halifax are moving out of Elland this summer.
:06:13. > :06:14.Five years ago there were 848 bank branches
:06:15. > :06:21.That's a decrease of more than a quarter.
:06:22. > :06:23.51 building society and bank branches have closed
:06:24. > :06:31.Elland, a picturesque market town in Calderdale.
:06:32. > :06:37.But within the next few months two of its last remaining
:06:38. > :06:39.banks will shut their doors for good.
:06:40. > :06:52.We are losing two banks in the space of a month,
:06:53. > :06:57.It is going to ruin the town even more than it already is.
:06:58. > :07:00.How is the town supposed to live without any banks?
:07:01. > :07:03.People in Elland need our banks here.
:07:04. > :07:06.I've got a disabled father and the only way I can get him
:07:07. > :07:14.Moving it to Halifax town centre has flummoxed me.
:07:15. > :07:16.People aren't just complaining about the closure of banks.
:07:17. > :07:21.They're concerned about the lack of investment in their local area,
:07:22. > :07:28.which they fear could mean the demise of the town.
:07:29. > :07:34.We've seen no investment in Elland town centre at all and as a result
:07:35. > :07:38.we've got less and less people coming here, and now that banks
:07:39. > :07:41.are closing that's one less thing for them to come to as well.
:07:42. > :08:06.on the 15th of August, but even sooner, Barclays
:08:07. > :08:16.Then customers will have to use an alternative branch.
:08:17. > :08:19.An inquest into the death of a kickboxer from Sheffield has been
:08:20. > :08:22.14-year-old Scott Marsden collapsed while competing
:08:23. > :08:28.The inquest heard he'd been fighting someone
:08:29. > :08:30.of a similar age and size, and was wearing
:08:31. > :08:35.The flick of an electric switch is likely to have caused a gas
:08:36. > :08:39.explosion that killed a man in his home near York last year.
:08:40. > :08:42.An inquest jury decided that Paul Wilmott - who was 63 -
:08:43. > :08:43.was killed accidentally in the massive blast
:08:44. > :08:52.The leak rate was fairly quick and could have created a flammable
:08:53. > :08:57.We don't know exactly how long it was
:08:58. > :09:01.leaking for but it is possible there was a smell of gas there that
:09:02. > :09:22.Here is the weather. You said earlier my suit was
:09:23. > :09:32.aquamarine. That is your opinion. It looks very nice.
:09:33. > :09:38.Whether overnight, we are in for a bit of a change. Over the next
:09:39. > :09:44.couple of days we are moving in to something, not less settled, but not
:09:45. > :09:51.as dry overnight. Winds potentially as dry overnight. Winds potentially
:09:52. > :09:55.getting blustery at times. A bit of rain creeping end from the north. It
:09:56. > :10:07.will be plastered it. Laws of eight Celsius. This rain slowly sinks
:10:08. > :10:11.southwards. First thing we could see heavy spells of rain combined with
:10:12. > :10:20.those blustery wince. They in the afternoon it is looking better. Dry
:10:21. > :10:24.weather. I cannot promise prolonged sunshine for everyone but we will
:10:25. > :10:27.see Sunny spells by the time we get to the afternoon. Parts of East
:10:28. > :10:36.Yorkshire and South Yorkshire getting the best weather. Look at
:10:37. > :10:40.the wind. It is still blustery. Over the next few days this ridge of high
:10:41. > :10:44.pressure to the site is getting squashed away and as we look ahead
:10:45. > :10:50.towards the weekend there are a couple of weather fronts coming our
:10:51. > :10:54.way. It is not a completely dry story, however thanks to the
:10:55. > :10:59.influence of high pressure, we will see a largely dry story over the
:11:00. > :11:01.next couple of days, often cloudy, we will see some rain, it will be
:11:02. > :11:07.easy at times. He is the outlook. rain but it will be brighter later.
:11:08. > :11:14.On Sunday, on the cool side for East itself.
:11:15. > :11:27.Good evening. Grace of all it -- it is greatest of all in Scotland. A
:11:28. > :11:31.weather front is on the move. The rain edging down into south-western
:11:32. > :11:38.parts of Scotland and northern Ireland. Much of England and Wales
:11:39. > :11:41.will have a dry note but not quite as Chile to start tomorrow. Let's
:11:42. > :11:45.deal with the wet weather first thing tomorrow. It will be a damp
:11:46. > :11:52.start for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Heaviest rain on the hills
:11:53. > :11:56.towards the coast and east of the Pennines, not too much rain at all.
:11:57. > :11:58.Southern