Hints and tips on helping your child settle into primary school.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Hints and tips on helping your child settle into primary school from early years consultant Helen Stroudley and mum of two Vibha Ghei who are part of a new BBC Bitesize Campaign.
According to the TUC, half of women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. Rights of Women have just launched the only specialist free legal advice line in England and Wales to help them. We hear more from Deeba Syed, senior legal advisor from Rights of Women, and Dame Heather Rabbatts, Chair of TIME’S UP UK
Plus Dame Victoria Sharp the new President of the Queen’s Bench Division - the first woman to hold the post - which makes her the third most senior member of the judiciary of England and Wales.
And dress historian Amber Butchart with another in her series about our summer wardrobe staple - today espadrilles.
Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell
Guest; DEEBA SYED, Guest; DAME HEATHER RABBATTS Guest; HELEN STROUDLEY Guest; VIBHA GHEI Guest; DAME VICTORIA SHARP Guest; AMBER BUTCHART
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| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey, it is the 5th of August. podcasts. today what it's like to start primary school and you can hear an interview |
| 0:54.0 | with the new president of the Queen's Bench Division, Dame Victoria Sharp |
| 0:58.6 | joins us. She is now one of the most senior members of the judiciary. |
| 1:02.9 | We're going to start there this morning with a helpline, a new helpline. |
| 1:06.4 | The actress Emma Watson actually is one of the people who's helped to fund it. |
| 1:10.1 | It is free legal advice on a helpline for women who've been sexually harassed at work. |
| 1:15.6 | According to TUC figures, that is half, or about half of all working women in this country. astonishing. But maybe you're listening and thinking, |
| 1:25.6 | no, that isn't astonishing at all. Again, you can get involved a course via social media. |
| 1:31.1 | Deiba Saeed is the senior legal advisor from Rights of Women. |
| 1:34.7 | This is a charity which will help to run the helpline. |
| 1:37.3 | Deeper good morning to you. |
| 1:38.3 | Good morning. |
| 1:39.3 | And in our studio in Edinburgh is Dame Heather Abatz, who's chair of Times Up UK and you're very much a part of |
| 1:44.7 | all this as well aren't you Heather? Does it depress you that it's needed at all? |
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