Children's Education, Government U-Turns and Implicit Bias
The Peston Podcast
Faraz Aghaei
4.6 • 20 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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This week we're discussing the Government's u-turn on free school meals and asking when children can get back to school, and what impact that may have on their long term education. We're also talking to John Barnes about implicit racial bias, creating systematic change and changing perceptions.
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's show, it's all about who's in charge. |
| 0:15.5 | Is it the Man in 10 Downing Street or the Man United number 10? |
| 0:20.1 | And it's also about why our young people are not in school and when on earth they will be getting a proper education. |
| 0:29.6 | I'll be talking to the Justice Secretary Robert Buckleham to the Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield to the brilliant superstar England footballer John Barms and to Labour's |
| 0:40.3 | Jess Phillips and the former Chief of Staff to Theresa May, Lord Barwell. |
| 0:45.3 | First up, Robert Buckland. |
| 0:48.3 | And I just want to actually just pick up straight away with this issue about, is there going to be a plan announced about what will be available to kids who are 18 or kids at 21, leaving schools, leaving universities? |
| 1:02.9 | You know, we know right now there are no jobs. The statistics prove it. So what is going to be done for them? |
| 1:08.7 | Well, as we have done on so many occasions in this crisis, |
| 1:11.6 | we've worked at extraordinarily fast pace to devise schemes |
| 1:15.6 | that only a few weeks ago were in somebody's imagination. |
| 1:18.6 | So tell us about them, because we don't know about them. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm not going to sit here and gainsay or guess what the Education Secretary |
| 1:24.6 | and the Prime Minister are working on. |
| 1:26.6 | But I know that the Prime Minister has already said publicly his commitment to making |
| 1:31.3 | sure that our young people are positively engaged in the sort of development that, you know, |
| 1:38.3 | like my children are of a similar school age. |
| 1:41.3 | We're all worried as parents about the future of our young people. |
| 1:45.7 | But, you know, the government in the teeth of opposition set out a plan in May, particularly |
| 1:50.7 | about primary schools, and now we're being told that because we were reviewing the matter, |
| 1:55.8 | that somehow we have U-turned or flip-flop on what we clearly said in May. |
| 2:01.6 | You did flip-locked, I'm sorry, that's not right. |
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