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Woman's Hour

Comedian Rosie Jones, Grooming gangs, Playing outside

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the key recommendations of Baroness Louise Casey's report into child sexual exploitation and abuse, and ask what might change as a result? Nuala McGovern is joined by guests including BBC social affairs editor Alison Holt, social worker-turned-whistleblower Jayne Senior and documentary director Anna Hall, who has spent the past two decades covering the subject of grooming gangs. Comedian, actor and writer Rosie Jones joins Nuala to discuss her first sitcom, Pushers, which she stars in and co-wrote. She plays Emily in the Channel 4 show, who has very little left to lose after having her disability benefits cut when she loses her job - she finds herself building an illegal drugs empire. Emily isn’t your average street-dealer though - she’s sharp, funny, highly educated and has cerebral palsy. What better disguise could there be for criminal activity than to be entirely written off by society? Children are not playing outside enough, according to a new report by the Raising the Nation Play Commission, but instead are "sedentary, scrolling and alone". Nineteen commissioners, from doctors to campaigners, spent a year investigating play and childhood in England for the report. Among their recommendations are raising the digital age of consent to 16 and putting in place a statutory "play sufficiency duty" for local authorities. Joining Nuala to discuss this are Baroness Anne Longfield, executive chair of Centre for Young Lives and co-leader of the commission, and Debbie Watson, Professor of Child and Family Welfare at the University of Bristol. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Sarah Jane Griffiths

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0:00.0

Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

0:05.1

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

0:08.7

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

0:13.5

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

0:19.1

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

0:21.7

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

0:24.5

We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.

0:28.6

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

0:31.3

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,

0:36.1

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

0:40.3

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:44.6

Hello, this is Neula McGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.

0:49.9

Hello and welcome to the programme.

0:51.8

Well, we continue our coverage of Baroness Casey's report?

0:55.6

We want to look at what, if anything, changes after the publication of Casey's audit,

1:00.9

of group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse,

1:04.5

with the recommendations offered by Baroness Casey and also the Home Secretary,

1:08.4

Yvette Cooper, yesterday.

1:10.4

How long will it take to enact the disgust changes

1:13.4

and are vulnerable girls in any way safer today than they were yesterday?

1:19.0

Also this hour, the comedian, actor and writer, Rosie Jones.

1:22.5

Rosie has created a new sitcom, Pushers, where a young disabled woman

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