:00:12. > :00:15.The home care system in Cornwall is on the brink of collapse.
:00:16. > :00:18.That's the warning from owners of some of the South West's
:00:19. > :00:20.care agencies, who say they only keep going
:00:21. > :00:28.Tonight at six, the funding crisis in social care services...
:00:29. > :00:30.It is one of the biggest crises facing the UK...
:00:31. > :00:32.Tonight, home care companies in crisis...
:00:33. > :00:35.Home care companies have warned of a funding crisis...
:00:36. > :00:40.Never far from the headlines, but there is a new side to this story.
:00:41. > :00:44.One report today claims the care system nationally is no longer
:00:45. > :00:49.I have been told one company after another providing
:00:50. > :00:52.home care in Cornwall dipped into their own pockets
:00:53. > :00:57.Of four providers I spoke to, they all said they were
:00:58. > :01:01.struggling financially and to recruit carers.
:01:02. > :01:04.I am a carer simply because I love it.
:01:05. > :01:10.I love coming in to help people daily and seeing different people.
:01:11. > :01:15.Being able to be that person that keeps them in their own home.
:01:16. > :01:19.Cornwall Council says it agreed its prices after negotiations.
:01:20. > :01:22.But the owner of Trelawney Domiciliary Care in Camborne
:01:23. > :01:26.says she is one of many not making a profit.
:01:27. > :01:30.That is putting the home care system under real threat.
:01:31. > :01:34.We are literally just treading water, there is no money left over
:01:35. > :01:37.and I'm sure we're not the only ones and I hear it among other colleagues
:01:38. > :01:44.59-year-old Jan Radley helps look after her father, Terry Brown.
:01:45. > :01:49.Three daily care visits keep him at home.
:01:50. > :01:52.I don't like the idea of my dad going into a care home at all.
:01:53. > :02:00.And the care that they give enables my dad to stay at home.
:02:01. > :02:03.In response to worries about the future, Cornwall Council
:02:04. > :02:06.says it is trying to spend its money more cleverly with a 10-year plan
:02:07. > :02:09.making sure care and support is available at home
:02:10. > :02:16.to promote independence and social inclusion.
:02:17. > :02:20.With us, people take their last breaths and it is good to know those
:02:21. > :02:24.people went with somebody there next to them, even if their family
:02:25. > :02:27.couldn't be there, at least we could be there,
:02:28. > :02:35.People living on the Isles of Scilly have been asked for ideas to keep
:02:36. > :02:39.The council says it's had significant problems
:02:40. > :02:45.At a packed public meeting today, the head of social care said
:02:46. > :02:47.she didn't want to see anyone moved out.
:02:48. > :02:52.Christine Butler reports from St Mary's.
:02:53. > :02:58.Both part of the heart and in the hearts of this island community.
:02:59. > :03:02.Providing care for its residents and reassurance for their families.
:03:03. > :03:08.Yesterday, those living at Park House were faced with
:03:09. > :03:15.finding somewhere else to live after the announcement it was to close.
:03:16. > :03:18.And to me, it is losing a family, splitting up my family.
:03:19. > :03:22.making them, when they need me, to need me,
:03:23. > :03:25.And that is the most heartbreaking of all,
:03:26. > :03:28.to think that somebody that has looked after you in your hour
:03:29. > :03:32.of need or brought you up and you have looked up to
:03:33. > :03:35.is not going to be there when they need you.
:03:36. > :03:38.Hundreds of islanders packed out the Town Hall on St Mary's to hear
:03:39. > :03:43.for themselves the reason for the planned closure.
:03:44. > :03:49.Six months ago, if you knew this was on the cards,
:03:50. > :03:56.An appeal was made from the director of adult social care for fresh ideas
:03:57. > :04:00.on how to save Park House, and it worked.
:04:01. > :04:03.The issue is recruitment and retention of staff,
:04:04. > :04:06.and I think one of the solutions that this brilliant meeting came up
:04:07. > :04:08.with is that there was a clear commitment from the community
:04:09. > :04:11.that they would like to see our carers paid more money,
:04:12. > :04:13.and members have arranged to have a special meeting
:04:14. > :04:16.to review that, and I'm really, really pleased that
:04:17. > :04:21.Members of the Isles of Scilly Council have three weeks
:04:22. > :04:24.to find the money to increase pay for carers, in the hope that this
:04:25. > :04:29.will attract qualified staff to apply to work here.
:04:30. > :04:34.Christine Butler, BBC Spotlight, Isles of Scilly.
:04:35. > :04:37.Exeter City Council's ruling Labour group has been facing
:04:38. > :04:40.tough questions tonight about delays in the redevelopment
:04:41. > :04:46.This emergency meeting was held at the Guildhall -
:04:47. > :04:49.the first time such an event has taken place in the city
:04:50. > :04:58.A destination has been agreed, but the journey to a new bus station
:04:59. > :05:02.has been delayed and no-one is sure how long it will take.
:05:03. > :05:05.Work should have started this month, plans were made
:05:06. > :05:09.to re-route services, but the timetable has changed.
:05:10. > :05:13.and the project management company was sacked.
:05:14. > :05:18.Long-term opponents of the ?32 million scheme want answers.
:05:19. > :05:21.Exeter does need a bus station, but it's got to be fit for purpose.
:05:22. > :05:24.We want one that coaches can crawl out, we want one
:05:25. > :05:26.that has a waiting room, we want one big enough,
:05:27. > :05:29.so let's build for the future, and I don't believe the bus station
:05:30. > :05:33.Most people agree that this part of town does need redevelopment.
:05:34. > :05:36.We've had the new cinema over there, John Lewis in one direction
:05:37. > :05:39.and then, of course, there is the new Princesshay.
:05:40. > :05:42.But while all of that development has been taking place,
:05:43. > :05:48.The plans are not just for a bus station, but also a leisure complex
:05:49. > :05:53.But some wonder if it needs to be so expensive.
:05:54. > :05:56.You need a restaurant, places for people to sit
:05:57. > :05:58.while they are waiting for their bus, and everything
:05:59. > :06:05.Just make it into a decent bus station.
:06:06. > :06:09.Because we've got one or two pools around,
:06:10. > :06:14.This is brilliant, it is right in the city centre, it's a brilliant
:06:15. > :06:19.asset to the city and it's right where it should be.
:06:20. > :06:22.The Labour-run City Council said pausing the scheme for a short time
:06:23. > :06:28.Is the ?32 million the maximum you will spend on this?
:06:29. > :06:30.We don't know what's going to happen, and that's
:06:31. > :06:33.a good question to ask me, and it's an even better one
:06:34. > :06:37.for me not to answer, because we just don't know.
:06:38. > :06:39.I'm not being evasive, I'm not being secretive,
:06:40. > :06:42.I'm trying to say those negotiations are still in play.
:06:43. > :06:45.We are not going to disclose our hand.
:06:46. > :06:48.Tonight's emergency meeting, the first of its type in Exeter
:06:49. > :06:51.for more than a decade, was open to the public.
:06:52. > :06:54.The opposition claims too many decisions on this project
:06:55. > :07:00.But we still don't know for how long this scheme will remain on hold.
:07:01. > :07:05.Hamish Marshall, BBC Spotlight, Exeter.
:07:06. > :07:09.Now to one man's mission to help people better understand disability.
:07:10. > :07:21.he's using his new role as a nude life model to powerful effect.
:07:22. > :07:26.Since birth, he has lived with cerebral palsy and
:07:27. > :07:31.a speech problem, but he won't let that stop him.
:07:32. > :07:35.I was the first severely disabled person to do a Dance Theatre BA
:07:36. > :07:42.Presently, I am studying for a Masters in Performance Training.
:07:43. > :07:47.Kevin communicates with an iPad, by using his nose or a head pointer.
:07:48. > :07:49.My speech is my biggest problem, because not being able
:07:50. > :07:52.to verbally communicate, most people think I'm mentally
:07:53. > :07:55.challenged and I don't know what I'm doing.
:07:56. > :08:00.When people take the time to engage with me, they find out who I am.
:08:01. > :08:03.Kevin has become a life model to use his nudity
:08:04. > :08:10.When I am dancing or life modelling, I am expressing who I am.
:08:11. > :08:13.That I am intelligent, creative, sensitive and
:08:14. > :08:19.In my Masters, I am focusing on movement, body image and nudity
:08:20. > :08:23.because my disability gives me great body definition.
:08:24. > :08:27.Now 53, he is determined not to let his disability get in the way.
:08:28. > :08:31.He's run for Parliament, travelled all around the world and...
:08:32. > :08:34.In the future, I hope to get my Masters,
:08:35. > :08:38.maybe do a PhD and hopefully, make more close friends.
:08:39. > :08:43.I understand I challenge many people and their varying
:08:44. > :08:50.To my amazement, many artists and even lecturers have problems
:08:51. > :09:00.If one person's view of what I can do
:09:01. > :09:04.is altered positively, it is one more small victory
:09:05. > :09:14.On to football now - Torquay United have been in action
:09:15. > :09:16.tonight as they continue their fight for survival in the National League.
:09:17. > :09:22.But they lost 2-3 at home to Eastleigh.
:09:23. > :09:24.Let's take a look at the weather now -
:09:25. > :09:29.a blustery night out there, David!
:09:30. > :09:35.Thank you, yes, we have had four seasons in one day today! The Shard
:09:36. > :09:39.have been wintry in places, we have have been wintry in places, we have
:09:40. > :09:44.had blustery winds. More of the same tomorrow but not as windy. The
:09:45. > :09:48.showers will be slow-moving but still the potential for some heavy
:09:49. > :09:52.downpours. We are right in the centre of an area of low pressure
:09:53. > :09:56.and that is generating not only some showers but some more persistent
:09:57. > :10:00.rain, sweeping across the South West. That continues right through
:10:01. > :10:05.overnight tonight and in towards the London area by the time we get to
:10:06. > :10:09.lunchtime tomorrow. Before that arrived, we had some sunshine, this
:10:10. > :10:13.was the Isles of Scilly, out there, some lovely sunshine, looks a bit
:10:14. > :10:17.threatening in the distance and there has certainly been quite a
:10:18. > :10:21.wind blowing. Some very blustery conditions not just here but right
:10:22. > :10:26.across the South West. Some of the showers have been wintry and it is a
:10:27. > :10:29.cold night despite the band of rain. We're looking at temperatures
:10:30. > :10:33.reasonably close to freezing to start tomorrow. Some of the showers
:10:34. > :10:38.tomorrow have the potential to give a dusting of snow over high ground.
:10:39. > :10:42.The rest of us, slow-moving showers and a top temperature of between
:10:43. > :10:46.seven and nine sources. The outlook is for milder air, we develop
:10:47. > :10:49.easterly winds as we head towards the weekend. Have a good night.
:10:50. > :10:52.The Breakfast team's back from 6:25 in the morning.
:10:53. > :10:56.From us, though, thanks for watching and have a good night.