No More Phones 4u School Kids
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at new guidance given to schools on mobile phones + whether citizens’ assemblies could help solve some of the big issues in our democracy.
The government has announced new advice for schools in England to try to stop mobile phone use. To explain what difference it will make, Adam is joined in the studio by the BBC’s education editor, Branwen Jeffreys, former children’s commissioner, Anne Longfield and headteacher Becky Arnold.
And Labour could implement citizens’ assemblies to propose new laws if they win the election. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has suggested they may be used to tackle sensitive issues like assisted dying. Adam is joined in the studio by the CEO of Demos, Polly Curtis.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, later on in this episode of newscast, |
| 0:07.2 | we're going to be talking about the concept of citizens assemblies, |
| 0:11.8 | which are in the news for reasons I will come on to later. |
| 0:14.4 | But we love a good gimmick here in newscast, as you well know. |
| 0:17.6 | So we've decided we're going to have a Citizens Assembly about Citizens Assemblies featuring you. So what do you think about the |
| 0:26.9 | concept of Citizens Assemblies? Have you ever taken part in one? What do you think it |
| 0:31.5 | would like to be in one? Have you ever had a citizen's assembly-esque experience? I don't know, maybe with your local council, in your workplace, in your parish council, in your family, family. |
| 0:43.0 | Although, that sounds like the sort of thing |
| 0:46.0 | maybe they're doing Chris Mason's family, isn't it? |
| 0:48.0 | We're having a citizens assembly. |
| 0:49.0 | Let us know. |
| 0:50.0 | And then we will play out some of your contributions in the newscast citizens |
| 0:54.1 | assembly on citizens assemblies in a future episode. Surely by now you know how to get |
| 0:59.1 | in touch but I'll remind you nonetheless it's newscast at BBC.co. UK if you want to email you can |
| 1:05.0 | watsap us on 0 3.30.123 9480. And that's a good way if you want to contribute perhaps with a little voice note |
| 1:15.6 | or of course you can use the discord server where you can talk about all things related to |
| 1:20.4 | newscast but particularly about what you think about this potential innovation in British democracy. |
| 1:26.0 | Lots more innovations coming in this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:29.0 | Newscast. |
| 1:30.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:32.0 | Why can't people buy a house? |
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