Morning what Water Companies can charge over the next five years. It could mean cuts to bills, and a demand to spend more on plugging leaks. Ben stokes is named bbc Sports Personality of the year. The all rounder capped off a brilliant, world cup winning year by picking up the main award in aberdeen. You have helped a lot of people. You have helped a lot of peopleli do hope so. Dont hope so, you have. We continue to follow terrences incredible story. He touched all our hearts last week after coming on breakfast to talk about spending 20 christmases on his own. Might makea might make a frosty start with the risk of ice in the northern half of the uk. There is a lot of dry weather. Some showers in parts. More details in 50 minutes. Its monday the 16th of december. Our top story the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, will welcome more than a hundred new mps to westminster today as he aims to deliver on his election promise to get brexit done. Parliament wont officially open until thursday, so
Food are given out every year in food banks all over the country. I Indian Police say at least 43 people dont want to see an industry of have been killed. Food banks around britain. I want to see people properly supported in their hour of need by the rest of us ina their hour of need by the rest of us in a community, rather than relying on the charity of others in order to get something to eat. And that includes people in work because their wages are so low. Zero hour contracts damage their chances of earning enough money so they then have to access food banks as well. The number of children. Applause. In modern britain there are 4 million children living in poverty. This christmas, 135,000 children will wake up on Christmas Morning not knowing if the place they are waking up is their home for much longer. Because they are on short term tenancies, they are basically transferring that one homeless situation to another, to another, to another. What does that do to the mentality of those
We will be addressing some of the needs of the Public Health services. Then at the next meeting we will have a presentation which will be an overall of Behavioural Health programs in the department. In addition, i would like to on behalf of the commission, welcome commissioner suzanne gerardo. She has been the chair of the San Francisco Families First five commission and the founder and trustee of the demerlac academy which is serving underserved children and families. You certainly bring a lot of credentials to the commission, and were very happy to have you. Would you like to say a few words . Yes. Im very happy to be here, and i hope with my background in Mental Health, Behavioural Health, as a practising psychologist, im not just an administrator, i see families and adolescents daily. I look forward to being part of the planning, program, and solutions as the department of Public Health moves forward. So i welcome the opportunity to serve the city. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome, co
Is we would be running 41 beds in that facility and maintaining 29 lowbarrier hummingbird beds. In the interim, five people will be moved, provided its clinically indicated or they agree to move to other facilities, to open up a 14bed hummingbird that would last in april. People would be moved from that hummingbird to other hummingbird options and we would reopen to the state of 41 beds. Really pleased that we were able to come to some agreement. I think the staff input and the collective problemsolving let us move in the right direction. The governor just another key piece of news in our rapidly developing Behavioural Health field, the governor signed sb40 into law which helps strengthen our conservatorship and will help more people in what i consider lifesafing conservatorship. We will be able to help people for up to six months, provided they meet a number of criteria with regard to what these bills regarding we see the multiple offers of care. So we are working on this. A work grou
Recommendations. At the aids foundation, i applaud mayor breed and for their support to support a task force. It was charged in larp large part to recommend ways to improve our system of care or Substance Use on our streets. The San Francisco aids foundation and our c. E. O. Look forward to partnering with the city to realize the vision of the task force recommendations. I believe when we accept drug users without stigma, and in a state and in all states of health, Mental Health, and Substance Use and misuse, we have nothing to gain but vast improvements in serving all residents with Substance Use concerns to improve health and functioning. Low Barrier Services like those recommended today offer particular improvements for Community Members not ready for more intensive or traditional Treatment Options for easy Access Service options, support, dropin centers, Case Management , more accessible substance treatment and supportive policy on all levels of healthcare delivery. Thank you and p