11/04/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)


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Do we ourselves to be more important than we really are in international

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Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

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Tonight: How deep is the crisis in Yorkshire's care home industry?

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Our cameras get round-the-clock access to a residential home.

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And customers see red as the last two banks in Elland make

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a controversial withdrawal from the High Street.

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The weather is changing overnight. The forecast shortly.

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First tonight, just how much pressure are our care homes under?

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Research by BBC Yorkshire has revealed that the

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Figures show that an extra 5,000 social care workers have been

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recruited in our region over the past three years

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That should mean the number of vacancies is falling -

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Now that number has doubled to over 6,000.

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Meanwhile, in homes across our region

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the figure for staff turnover is 28% -

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That's more than 90 social care workers in Yorkshire

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Carla Fowler was invited into St Cecilia's home

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in Scarborough to see what life is like on the care

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Day shift starts at 7.15 here at St Cecilia's nursing

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Sue is due to have her weekly shower this morning

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but first she must take her medication.

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This is a medium-sized home, housing in total around 40

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Each have different, complex needs, ranging from dementia

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This is the constant soundtrack to their lives.

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Room buzzers calling for help 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Normally eight care workers and two nurses staff

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a morning shift but today Sue Gregory

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Because the population has got bigger hospitals can't keep them

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so the nurses are taking more, what they would not

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There is a chronic national shortage of

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nurses, and since the Brexit vote, nursing applicants from the EU have

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St Cecilia's just can't recruit enough.

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It's the health care assistants, or HCAs

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who look after all the needs of the residents.

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When you're rushing around you can't always get to everyone on time.

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It's quite upsetting and disheartening when you

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find out that people earn more just stacking shelves,

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You're not falling, you're all right.

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The care sector is quite like a dead end job.

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I know it sounds horrible but you can't

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I love my job, don't get me wrong, but it's not what I want to

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So far it's what I want to do forever.

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Most care workers are paid just above the minimum wage.

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The local authority pays St Cecilia's

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around ?500 per week for one person's 24/7 care.

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There is not enough money for more staff.

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The smallest providers are the ones that are

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That is what we have had to do in this instance is to

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There is a lot of small operators in this town.

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The way things are going we are going to

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lose a few in the next couple of years.

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Meanwhile, social services and hospitals

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call two or three times a

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Yes, but I've had to put them off because we've already just had one

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There's another one supposed to be coming but we've no

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idea what is going on with the hospital.

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Tonight's on shift nurse has called in sick.

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An agency nurse has had to be drafted in.

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She's the clinical lead for the night in a home she's

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Is this the cupboard for the medications?

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Just being an agency nurse, this is the sort of thing

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I have had the handover from the day staff so I am quite

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There are concerns EU carers like her will become

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increasingly scarce as Brexit progresses.

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Every resident here is somebody's mother, father, loved one.

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But often those closest to them are the workers who care.

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The Government says it's investing an extra ?2 billion

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in the industry over the next three years.

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Mike Padgham owns the care home featured in Carla's report.

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At the time of economic crisis that we've got,

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local authorities who purchase most of the care across the country,

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and in North Yorkshire particularly, are strapped for cash themselves.

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The Government says it's given them 2 billion extra

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but that's not enough, that only gets us back

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We get just under ?3 per hour to look after those with dementia.

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We want to pay staff ?9 or ?10 per hour.

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The trouble with our society is that we do not register that kind

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Social care has always been a Cinderella service.

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Doctors and nurses do a fantastic job, but social care

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We need to get more on board, they need to earn more

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What better way of doing things could there be than that?

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Next tonight, concerns are being raised about the closure

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of the last two remaining bank branches in a West

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Both Barclays and Halifax are moving out of Elland this summer.

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Five years ago there were 848 bank branches

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That's a decrease of more than a quarter.

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51 building society and bank branches have closed

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Elland, a picturesque market town in Calderdale.

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But within the next few months two of its last remaining

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banks will shut their doors for good.

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We are losing two banks in the space of a month,

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It is going to ruin the town even more than it already is.

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How is the town supposed to live without any banks?

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People in Elland need our banks here.

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I've got a disabled father and the only way I can get him

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Moving it to Halifax town centre has flummoxed me.

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People aren't just complaining about the closure of banks.

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They're concerned about the lack of investment in their local area,

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which they fear could mean the demise of the town.

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We've seen no investment in Elland town centre at all and as a result

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we've got less and less people coming here, and now that banks

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are closing that's one less thing for them to come to as well.

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on the 15th of August, but even sooner, Barclays

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Then customers will have to use an alternative branch.

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An inquest into the death of a kickboxer from Sheffield has been

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14-year-old Scott Marsden collapsed while competing

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The inquest heard he'd been fighting someone

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of a similar age and size, and was wearing

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The flick of an electric switch is likely to have caused a gas

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explosion that killed a man in his home near York last year.

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An inquest jury decided that Paul Wilmott - who was 63 -

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was killed accidentally in the massive blast

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The leak rate was fairly quick and could have created a flammable

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We don't know exactly how long it was

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leaking for but it is possible there was a smell of gas there that

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Here is the weather. You said earlier my suit was

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aquamarine. That is your opinion. It looks very nice.

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Whether overnight, we are in for a bit of a change. Over the next

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couple of days we are moving in to something, not less settled, but not

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as dry overnight. Winds potentially as dry overnight. Winds potentially

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getting blustery at times. A bit of rain creeping end from the north. It

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will be plastered it. Laws of eight Celsius. This rain slowly sinks

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southwards. First thing we could see heavy spells of rain combined with

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those blustery wince. They in the afternoon it is looking better. Dry

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weather. I cannot promise prolonged sunshine for everyone but we will

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see Sunny spells by the time we get to the afternoon. Parts of East

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Yorkshire and South Yorkshire getting the best weather. Look at

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the wind. It is still blustery. Over the next few days this ridge of high

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pressure to the site is getting squashed away and as we look ahead

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towards the weekend there are a couple of weather fronts coming our

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way. It is not a completely dry story, however thanks to the

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influence of high pressure, we will see a largely dry story over the

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next couple of days, often cloudy, we will see some rain, it will be

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easy at times. He is the outlook. rain but it will be brighter later.

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On Sunday, on the cool side for East itself.

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Good evening. Grace of all it -- it is greatest of all in Scotland. A

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weather front is on the move. The rain edging down into south-western

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parts of Scotland and northern Ireland. Much of England and Wales

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will have a dry note but not quite as Chile to start tomorrow. Let's

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deal with the wet weather first thing tomorrow. It will be a damp

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start for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Heaviest rain on the hills

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towards the coast and east of the Pennines, not too much rain at all.

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Southern

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