Dame Barbara Woodward; Maggie Oliver on police apology to grooming victims

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Throughout April the UK holds the presidency of the United Nation’s Security Council as the world focuses its attention on the war in Ukraine. The woman who takes on that role is Dame Barbara Woodward who’s the UK’s Permanent Representative to the UN. She talks to Emma about her priorities and plans for a new global code of conduct to improve the pursuit of justice for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has met and personally apologised to three victims of grooming gangs in Rochdale for failures in the investigation of the sexual exploitation of children. The apology comes exactly a decade after the 2012 trial that resulted in some members of the gangs being convicted for their crimes. We hear from Maggie Oliver, the former detective who blew the whistle on the police’s failure to tackle these crimes. Two new authors, Georgina Scull and Tanya Shadrick, both open their books with a description of how they came very close to death in their thirties. The experience changed them radically. Their books are Regrets of the Dying and The Cure for Sleep. They join Emma to talk about what they have learnt. This week, Alice Walker from Derbyshire became the oldest female winner of the BBC quiz show Mastermind. She was 66 when the grand final was recorded - she has turned 67 now, and joins Emma to talk about her specialist subject the Peak District and Morris dancing in clogs.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.2	Good morning, welcome to the programme.
0:12.4	Do women care more about rule-breaking than men?
0:16.6	The Prime Minister is said to be mortified according to one of his ministers put out to talk
0:20.7	to my colleagues on the today programme this morning over receiving a fine for attending
0:24.9	an illegal gathering in number 10 during lockdown.
0:27.6	We're still unclear whether he accepts he misled Parliament, which is a breach of the
0:31.8	ministerial code requiring resignation.
0:34.6	What we are clear about is that Boris Johnson is not resigning.
0:38.5	This is despite some pointing out that law makers shouldn't be law-breakers and that he
0:42.6	is the first sitting Prime Minister to break the law.
0:46.2	After the so-called party gate stories started to emerge, broken by Pippa Carrera and the
0:50.2	Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, excuse me, at the end of last year, polling showed women turning
0:55.1	away from the Prime Minister, more than men.
0:57.9	And by the time another woman was tasked with investigating the alleged breaches, the top
1:01.8	civil servants Sue Gray at the start of this year, a voting intention poll showed women
1:06.6	were more likely to be turning away from the Conservative Party than men.
1:11.2	We talked about that sentiment, you may remember, and that difference at the time on the
1:15.2	programme, and some of you trying to explain that discrepancy between the sexes offered
1:19.9	theories.
1:21.1	Some of you put it down to the greater caring responsibilities many women had faced during
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