frankly pretty opaque. what the 500 beds that went in, 111 were successful. so there are a lot more losers successful. so there are a lot more losers than successful. so there are a lot more losers than winners here. you heard they are losers than winners here. you heard they are the losers than winners here. you heard they are the point made is that councils they are the point made is that councils are spent an awful lot of money councils are spent an awful lot of money preparing these beds. labour are saying money preparing these beds. labour are saying that actually councils should are saying that actually councils should be are saying that actually councils should be given more money in the first place should be given more money in the first place so they can pay for these first place so they can pay for these kinds of projects, rather than these kinds of projects, rather than the decisions being made by whitehall. we have had an urgent question whitehall. we h
happened in last night the police and crime commissioner for merseyside condemned the attack as despicable. she hasjoined despicable. she has joined merseyside despicable. she hasjoined merseyside chief constable in asking for anyone with any information to come forward so the police can get a clear picture of what happened in wallasey on christmas eve and hopefully find those responsible, convert them to give it some justice to ellie edward s family, a 26 year old woman who was not the target of this attack, now sadly dead and the family want any information to help find the killer responsible. a shortage of children s social workers is leading to a significant increase in the amount of money councils are spending on agency staff. the bbc has discovered that spending on temporary staff rose by 38% over five years, from nearly £165 million to just over £227 million. alison holt has more.
this story, and reaction as well, from helen leadbitter, interim director of national programmes and innovation at the children s society. hollow. hello. like my quite shocking hollow. hello. like my quite shocking in hollow. hello. like my quite shocking in many hollow. hello. like my quite shocking in many respects i hollow. hello. like my quite - shocking in many respects because borisjohnson shocking in many respects because boris johnson last year announced more funding for these clubs, free school meals, during the summer hello. well, it s quite shocking. with the pressure from marcus rashford and so on, we thought children would be ok this summer, but that clearly isn t the case. it is to do with the rise of the cost of living or the amount of money councils have actually got, a reduction deia? councils have actually got, a reduction deia? ., , . ., reduction deia? clearly the cost of livin: isn t reduction deia? clearly the cost of living isn t helping reduction dei
that s because, to start with, most of the money will go towards clearing the backlog in the nhs, before social care gets a bigger share. i m on message. from october 2023, nobody in england will have to pay more than £86,000 over their lifetime for care. but there are worries in the sector. the problem here is that people who aren t paying for their own care because they haven t got any money, or because it s run out they are dependent on the state to pick up the tab, and the amounts of money councils have to fulfil that responsibility hasn t kept pace with the growing demand both from older people, but from disabled people of working age, as well. so those holes in their budget have continued to grow over the last ten years or so, and nothing that was announced really starts to fill those back up again. working people across the uk will pay the charge. the care plan is for england, but northern ireland,
towards clearing the backlog in the nhs, before social care gets a bigger share. i m on message. from october 2023, nobody in england will have to pay more than £86,000 over their lifetime for care. but there are worries in the sector. the problem here is that people who aren t paying for their own care because they haven t got any money, or because its run out they are dependent on the state to pick up the tab, and the amounts of money councils have to fulfil that responsibility hasn t kept pace with the growing demand both from older people, but from disabled people of working age, as well. so those holes in their budget have continued to grow over the last ten years or so, and nothing that was announced really starts to fill those back up again. working people across the uk will pay the charge. the care plan is for england, but northern ireland, wales and scotland will get more money to decide how to spend. borisjohnson hasn t ruled out putting up more taxes in future. it s exp