:00:07. > :00:24.Shortage of key personnel could push aircraft carriers over ?12 billion.
:00:25. > :00:30.And social care funding. No one one can say that Windsor and Maidenhead
:00:31. > :00:34.has ten times more adult care issues that Wokingham. The Prime Minister
:00:35. > :00:37.'s local council getting ten times as much as its neighbour.
:00:38. > :00:39.There are fresh concerns tonight over bringing Portsmouth's
:00:40. > :00:44.It's been confirmed the first sailing of HMS Queen Elizabeth has
:00:45. > :00:46.already been put back three months because of technical issues.
:00:47. > :00:51.And the government's spending watchdog, the National Audit Office,
:00:52. > :00:53.is worried there could be further delays which could lead
:00:54. > :01:08.The Royal Navy is getting big new aircraft carriers, new F35 jets,
:01:09. > :01:12.And it's got to get them working together seamlessly before
:01:13. > :01:14.the aircraft carriers can be deployed on operations.
:01:15. > :01:16.It's a long gap we've had without carriers.
:01:17. > :01:18.We've been very lucky that something hasn't happened in the world
:01:19. > :01:21.where we need them, because they are crucially important
:01:22. > :01:23.to our maritime power, to our joint capability,
:01:24. > :01:30.The National Audit Office says the next three years will be
:01:31. > :01:32.critical to establishing the carrier's strike capability.
:01:33. > :01:34.It says the Navy has a very long to-do list,
:01:35. > :01:42.Because of a shortage of engineers, warfare specialists and aircrew
:01:43. > :01:43.there's a compressed trials and training programme,
:01:44. > :01:49.The bill for the two aircraft carriers and the new jets
:01:50. > :01:56.If you don't deliver on time, the cost keeps going up,
:01:57. > :02:00.Time is a very important part of the whole equation.
:02:01. > :02:02.Figures published in January showed the Navy has a significant shortage
:02:03. > :02:10.The Navy needs 6,940 for it's ships and submarines,
:02:11. > :02:16.The Navy are very conscious that we have a shortage
:02:17. > :02:22.That's one of the reason why their backing university
:02:23. > :02:27.technical colleges, to get those engineering skills.
:02:28. > :02:30.But they're also recruiting people who have left the Navy
:02:31. > :02:32.to come back in again, and looking at other areas
:02:33. > :02:36.The National Audit Office says the introduction of the new aircraft
:02:37. > :02:38.carriers will fundamentally change how the Navy works,
:02:39. > :02:40.with large numbers of sailors required for the carriers
:02:41. > :02:43.Building the new aircraft carriers and getting them
:02:44. > :02:50.into service is a very, very complicated project.
:02:51. > :02:54.Today the National Audit Office said the Royal Navy is making good
:02:55. > :02:56.progress but there are still those big doubts about whether
:02:57. > :02:59.HMS Queen Elizabeth and her aircraft will be ready for initial deployment
:03:00. > :03:06.Today no one from the Ministry of Defence
:03:07. > :03:09.In a statement they said that the introduction
:03:10. > :03:12.of the new carriers will transform the UK's ability to project
:03:13. > :03:18.They also say that HMS Queen Elizabeth will be delivered
:03:19. > :03:20.to the Royal Navy as planned later this year.
:03:21. > :03:44.A terminally-ill pensioner who was involved in 40-hour
:03:45. > :03:47.stand-off with armed police in West Sussex has been spared jail,
:03:48. > :03:54.after a judge heard he has a year to live.
:03:55. > :03:56.73-year-old Terry Bridger shut himself in his home in Pagham
:03:57. > :03:58.after an argument with his wife last August.
:03:59. > :04:05.During prolonged negotiations with police he threatened
:04:06. > :04:09.Today, the court heard he has lung cancer and could die
:04:10. > :04:12.in prison if he was given a custodial sentence.
:04:13. > :04:14.It was supposed to be a lifeline for councils struggling to meet
:04:15. > :04:17.the bill for a growing population, the Chancellor announcing an extra
:04:18. > :04:27.?2 billion for social care over the next three years.
:04:28. > :04:30.The biggest amount in the region goes to Hampshire, the largest
:04:31. > :04:33.The Isle of Wight, one of our smallest unitary authorities,
:04:34. > :04:38.But Berkshire councils don't do so well, and the ?300,000
:04:39. > :04:39.for Wokingham is the second lowest in England.
:04:40. > :04:42.Privately some fear the council is paying the price for not
:04:43. > :04:44.making more of a fuss about previous funding cuts.
:04:45. > :05:03.Residents at this Wokingham care home enjoy a performance
:05:04. > :05:06.For this group with dementia, it's vital stimulation.
:05:07. > :05:10.It's definitely something you can't do on the cheap.
:05:11. > :05:15.We are an organisation that likes to be competitive
:05:16. > :05:18.in our terms and conditions, and pay our workers
:05:19. > :05:29.a reasonable rate of pay for doing it very hard job.
:05:30. > :05:31.The news that the government was giving extra help
:05:32. > :05:39.for adult social care in the budget was welcomed.
:05:40. > :05:41.But one local resident and Prime Minister Theresa May's
:05:42. > :05:43.constituency over the border in Windsor and Maidenhead gets
:05:44. > :05:45.almost ?1.4 million this year, Wokingham will
:05:46. > :05:48.In fact, nearly everywhere in England is getting
:05:49. > :05:53.Following on from being the lowest funded authority in the country,
:05:54. > :05:55.the lowest funded educational authority in the country,
:05:56. > :06:00.we'll now be the lowest funded adult social care in the country.
:06:01. > :06:05.It's going to mean severe constraints on what we want to do
:06:06. > :06:08.to give our adults in the borough of the quality of life
:06:09. > :06:11.While Wokingham may not be known as a poverty hotspot,
:06:12. > :06:14.Windsor and Maidenhead, too, has some, shall we say,
:06:15. > :06:17.So the gulf between the help it's getting and what's been offered
:06:18. > :06:21.to Wokingham, has left many, not least the council,
:06:22. > :06:23.wondering how the figures were massaged to arrive
:06:24. > :06:30.In a statement the Department of Communities and Local Government
:06:31. > :06:34.told us "The ?2 billion additional funding for adult social care
:06:35. > :06:37."announced at the Budget will be largely allocated in the same way
:06:38. > :06:42."as funding for the improved Better Care Fund.
:06:43. > :06:51."Some regions like Greater Manchester have
:06:52. > :06:56.councils to manage health and social care budgets.
:06:57. > :06:59.Earlier I asked Professor Tony Travers from the London School
:07:00. > :07:01.of Economics whether this should be be extended to all
:07:02. > :07:04.Certainly in the distant historical past they did,
:07:05. > :07:06.and there's no reason why councils, local government, couldn't
:07:07. > :07:09.have a bigger role in running NHS type care, and indeed it would allow
:07:10. > :07:12.greater bringing together of funding for the NHS with funding for, say,
:07:13. > :07:15.adult social care and children's social care, which are often really
:07:16. > :07:22.Would this reduce inefficiencies and make savings, or would it
:07:23. > :07:27.Well, it would almost certainly do both because at the moment
:07:28. > :07:29.there is effectively an artificial barrier between the way the NHS
:07:30. > :07:35.gets its money and the way councils get their money for social care,
:07:36. > :07:43.but they are very different systems, different regimes.
:07:44. > :07:46.The NHS, frankly, is more generously funded and if these resources
:07:47. > :07:53.were brought together and the rules for delivering services were more
:07:54. > :07:55.similar you could certainly get a more efficient service
:07:56. > :07:58.but certainly as far as the public are concerned they don't care
:07:59. > :08:01.who runs these things but they just want a good, efficient service
:08:02. > :08:09.Why isn't that happening more already then?
:08:10. > :08:12.Well, because on the one hand government ministers who feel
:08:13. > :08:15.responsible for the NHS are very unwilling to cede control or do
:08:16. > :08:19.anything that suggests that the government isn't directly
:08:20. > :08:21.responsible for the NHS, and on the other hand
:08:22. > :08:24.councils run social care, they have done for many, many years,
:08:25. > :08:27.and for them too it is something that they deliver and relatively
:08:28. > :08:29.efficiently deliver so each has got an empire to defend.
:08:30. > :08:32.I'm not saying that that's the only reason that it can't be done.
:08:33. > :08:36.Bringing it together could be achieved, but it's very difficult
:08:37. > :08:39.at the moment because they are in different funding regimes
:08:40. > :08:43.and different political control, the NHS and the local government.
:08:44. > :08:54.Would it make sense for it to work the other way round,
:08:55. > :08:56.for the NHS to take responsiblilty for social care?
:08:57. > :08:59.I think there is almost zero chance that the NHS or central government
:09:00. > :09:01.would take responsibility for funding social care
:09:02. > :09:03.because social care is extremely difficult, the downside risks
:09:04. > :09:06.are enormous and frankly would cost central government a great deal more
:09:07. > :09:09.money than the way it's done at the moment, through local
:09:10. > :09:11.so I would say a near zero chance of that happening.
:09:12. > :09:16.Five non executive directors at Southern Health have resigned
:09:17. > :09:19.ahead of a big change in the way the Trust works, expected to be
:09:20. > :09:28.The mental health trust has been reviewing its services.
:09:29. > :09:31.It said it's leadership must change to meet the future needs
:09:32. > :09:38.We'll be back with bulletins tomorrow in BBC Breakfast.
:09:39. > :09:45.But first here's Alexis with your weather forecast.
:09:46. > :09:51.Thank you. We are looking at the possibility of some light rain
:09:52. > :09:55.initially this evening, but it was clear in the early hours of the
:09:56. > :10:00.morning and it will be followed by clear skies so temperatures will
:10:01. > :10:03.fall away in the countryside to perhaps two or three Celsius. These
:10:04. > :10:08.are temperatures in towns and cities. Lots of sunshine on offer
:10:09. > :10:12.first thing tomorrow. In the latter part of the evening we see the cloud
:10:13. > :10:16.increase from the West and an increasing westerly breeze. It will
:10:17. > :10:21.bring in milder conditions. Milder day tomorrow with a high of ten or
:10:22. > :10:25.12. It should stay mainly dry in daylight hours were dry and sunny
:10:26. > :10:28.spells. Tomorrow evening the cloud will thicken further and will have
:10:29. > :10:34.liked and patchy rain at times through tomorrow evening and
:10:35. > :10:37.overnight. A chance of light and patchy rain on Saturday, more likely
:10:38. > :10:42.in the west of the country, but it could dressed further east, brought
:10:43. > :10:46.in on the brisk wind. That will be the key feature of the next few
:10:47. > :10:51.days, brisk wind from the West drawing in some mild air from the
:10:52. > :10:54.Atlantic. Over the weekend we are expecting quite cloudy conditions
:10:55. > :10:58.with brighter spells here and there and the Chancellor patchy rain at
:10:59. > :11:00.times. Rain more likely on Sunday here and there.
:11:01. > :11:02.double figures. Through the weekend there will be rain around, most
:11:03. > :11:10.occurring overnight. Good evening, quite a range of
:11:11. > :11:14.whether an offer earlier today in the north and north-west of the UK
:11:15. > :11:17.quite a lot of showers around, lively ones, little bit of sunshine
:11:18. > :11:20.in between. The best of the sunshine to be found at the other end of the
:11:21. > :11:25.country towards the south-east in Kent, lovely picture here from one
:11:26. > :11:29.of our weather watchers. A range of temperatures, too. 17 degrees for a
:11:30. > :11:32.few, on the other side of the weather front, only seven or 8
:11:33. > :11:37.degrees. Showers in the north and west. The fresh air will win out
:11:38. > :11:40.over tonight coming in behind the cold front, which isn't bringing
:11:41. > :11:43.much rain but it will bring some, clearing away towards the continent,
:11:44. > :11:49.cold air following behind, as do the showers. Wintry weather over the
:11:50. > :11:50.hills in northern Scotland. A much colder night than it has been