13/02/2013

Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin Webb, including:

0752
A quarter of home-care services provided to the elderly in England are failing to meet quality and safety standards, inspectors say. David, who relies on these services, explains the standard of treatment that he has received, and David Behan, chief executive of the Care Quality Commission whose work has highlighted the problems, outlines what needs to be done.

0810
The investigation into allegations of horsemeat mislabelling will be "relentless", the Food Standards Agency has said. Andrew Rhodes, director of Operations at the Food Standards Agency, says whether we should we still be eating processed meat.

0818
Yesterday the US broke its record for the longest time without a commercial airline crash. David Spiegelhalter, a professor for the public understanding of risk at Cambridge University, and Jennifer Wild, a consultant clinical psychologist, discuss changing attitudes to flying.

0830
A quarter of the agencies providing care in the home who have been inspected are not meeting the grade. Colin Angel, policy director of the UK Homecare Association, and David Robert, councillor from the Local Government Association, reflect on the findings.