This morning well bring you exclusive access inside a trial where people are volunteering to test an ebola vaccine. There is a lot of us who realise that there are a lot of medical issues in the world and we would like to help, but instead of giving the money to charities where we dont necessarily see exactly whats happening, with a medical trial we can see that theyre working towards something and were actually a part of it rather than just giving our money to someone of it rather than just giving our money to someone and saying, there you go. Just go and do whatever. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until iiam. A little later in the programme well meet a 21 year old man who says football saved his life. Hear his moving story just before 10am. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today, the chancellor Philip Hammond will use his firs
economist rebecca harding. new research suggests that frontline care workers supporting elderly or disabled people in england require the same skills as teaching assistants and police community support officers and yet they re paid £70,000 per year less. - £7,000. the charity community integrated care says says the pay gap makes it difficult to recruit staff. the government says it hopes to give an update of its plans to reform social care quite soon. here s our social affairs correspondent, alison holt. shall we open some presents? it s tony s birthday today, and with his family unable to be with him it s his support worker amy who will be at his side throughout the day. i love myjob, i absolutely love myjob. and i always say to work in care you have to care, because you do. tony has epilepsy and cerebral palsy, and he struggles to swallow. amy has to monitor him closely. stay awake. we need to celebrate, you can t
a huge surge in demand for foreign holidays as quarantine rules for uk nationals returning to england are relaxed. we re saying that if you have been fully vaccinated, that means two vaccinations plus waiting two weeks, 1a days, then you can go away, including for holidays. so that will change. health officials consider making the nhs covid app less sensitive, to avoid millions of people having to self isolate this summer. new research confirms that for children there s an extremely low risk of severe illness or death from covid 19. authors of a new report say that frontline care workers supporting elderly or disabled people in england are underpaid by £7,000 per year. local authorities across the uk say they face a £3 billion shortfall in their budgets over the next three years as the country emerges from the pandemic. and coming up.