Cookery pioneer Claudia Roden, getting a SEN diagnosis, the impact of vaccine hesitancy among care workers

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It is not an exaggeration to call Claudia Roden a culinary pioneer. For over 50 years she has been collecting recipes from home cooks throughout the MIddle East and Mediterranean. She shares with Emma details of her new “Med” based on remembered dishes that she’s encountered over decades.

Care home managers in England say they're terrified of future staff shortages because of the 'no jab, no job' policy, brought in by the government, which says care home workers have to be double vaccinated by the 11th November, or face losing their job. Emma talks to Nicola Richards, director of Palms Row Health Care, who manages two nursing homes about why workers are still not getting their jab an what that’ll mean for the future of the sector.

During Listener Week, we spoke to Lauren Gibson. She wanted us to talk about the difficulties of finding out your child has learning disabilities. How do you deal with hearing your child isn’t developing normally? And, what do you do whilst waiting for a full diagnosis? She got some practical advice from Salena Begley, the Scottish Partnership Engagement Manager at Family Fund U . Today she's back to, get advice from another listener Claire Walker, who’s son was diagnosed with Autism in May, because sometimes the best person to hear from is someone who has been through the same experience as you

Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell PICTURE CREDIT; Jamie Lau/Waitrose & Partners Food

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0:41.0	Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. be compulsory to be double jabbed against COVID to work in care homes in England.
0:54.8	Managers are worried about losing staff because of the no jab no job policy.
0:59.2	We're going to hear from one in a moment, but as you'll also hear shortly the government could extend compulsory
1:04.2	vaccination to cover all carers including those who go into people's homes.
1:09.2	The majority of carers are women and as with the wider population there is hesitancy about having the jab.
1:16.0	But the nature of what carers do means very different responsibilities.
1:20.0	Let me ask you today then, do you think all carers should have to be jabbed or do you
1:25.5	have concerns about making it mandatory regardless of the job or perhaps your
1:30.2	concerns are based on the fact that the care sector is already struggling to recruit
1:34.4	and retain people. Let us know your take on this. Perhaps where you come into this, maybe you are in
1:39.2	care, maybe you have a family member in care, maybe you work in this field, or perhaps you have nothing to do with it at all,
1:44.8	but simply a view based on work that you've done or views that you hold because of other reasons.
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