Quaranteens, New police strategy to tackle violence against women and girls, Jess Duckworth
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
There is no doubt that the pandemic is still affecting people's social lives, but perhaps the most affected are teenagers or 'quaranteens'. Many young people have missed out on major social milestones - parties, teen romances and opportunities to be with their mates - which can be so formative. What is the impact of missing out on these experiences? And how can adults best support 'quaranteens'? Emma talks to Laverne Antrobus, a consultant child and educational psychologist.
The woman charged with co-ordinating the national police response in England and Wales to violence against women and girls unveils her strategy on Woman’s Hour. Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth is the new national police co-ordinator for violence against women and girls. The aim is give the 43 police forces around the country a uniform approach, and make women and girls feel safer in their daily lives. We’ll also get reaction to the new strategy from Amelia Handy from Rape Crisis Centres.
It’s been a particularly stressful couple of years for staff working in the NHS, including junior doctors like Jess Duckworth. When she isn’t busy with patients at the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital, she is treating herself and others in the hospital to some relaxation with her piano playing. Combining her two passions – music and medicine - she’s researched the types and style of music people find relaxing, and it’s resulted in a second EP to be released in February next year, The Piano Doctor Volume II – A Year of Reflective Piano Music. The single ‘Into The Light’ is out this week.
Statistics out this morning show UK inflation has increased to 5.1 per cent last month - the highest in a decade - after prices rose across the economy including for fuel and food bills. Some observers are talking about she-flation with some of the poorest in society - often women on low and part time work - being affected more. Professor Heather McGregor, Head of the Business School at Heriot Watt University joins Emma to discuss.
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| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, good morning, welcome to the program. |
| 0:42.0 | Short, you'll be hearing about a new plan to make girls and women safer from the police officer |
| 0:46.4 | behind it in her first interview since announcing today's strategy. |
| 0:50.3 | But also on today's program, as plans perhaps change due to the omicron invariant |
| 0:56.0 | we're going to be talking to a junior doctor who combines her love of music and medicine. |
| 1:00.6 | Jess Duckworth plays the piano in her hospital as she comes off shift and now has a new album out. |
| 1:06.0 | After a couple of years like no other with a recent report showing a third of junior doctors in the UK are feeling burns out due to the pandemic up from a quarter in previous |
| 1:14.7 | years, it is one coping strategy that has also turned into a side hustle for Jess. |
| 1:20.5 | But what about you? |
| 1:21.5 | What is your side hustle? What do you do on the side either for passion, money or both? |
| 1:26.8 | Has it become perhaps your main thing? There's a lot of people in the UK who do have something on the side. A lot of women in a recent report |
| 1:34.0 | say they hope it would become their main job or their main activity in some way or |
| 1:37.8 | way of relying on it. Tell me yours. What is your side hustle? We'll be hearing a junior doctor's take on why music and |
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