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Standard Issue Podcast

Rebekah Pierre on putting the care back into care

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

There are currently 82,000 children in care in the UK. What's life like for them and how will growing up in care go on to affect their lives? Hannah's been on the Zoom with Rebekah Pierre, editor of an excellent new book, Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It, to find out more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Standard issue for all women.

0:13.5

Hello and welcome to Tuesday's podcast. It's a goodie. But first I just want to tell you what's coming up in the rest of this week.

0:22.1

Tomorrow it's rated or dated and we'll be

0:25.9

watching The Rock documentary Metallica Some Kind of Monster. You earned me.

0:31.5

It's free on YouTube which will likely make Lars Ulrich

0:36.1

incandethant with rage. So if you want to watch that and form your own

0:41.3

views before listening go, fill your boots. On Thursday, Jen and

0:46.3

I are on Bush telegraph duties. What will we be talking about? I don't know. our rough guess, Biden, because this series of game of Oval

0:56.8

Offices is just incredible. And finally on Friday, Jen's chatting to former

1:02.4

Cricket Player, now commentator,

1:04.4

Isha Guhuha, big yes please.

1:07.2

So back to this episode.

1:09.1

In it, I'm chatting to Rebecca Pierre,

1:11.5

editor of a brilliant new anthology called Free Loaves on Fridays, the care system

1:16.9

as told by people who actually get it.

1:19.9

I'm going to cut to the chase pretty quickly and by that I mean not just ramble on about the interview

1:24.4

when you could just be listening to it now. But I just want to tell you it is an excellent sobering

1:29.4

read and it is available to buy now.

1:40.5

Hello, I am joined by Rebecca Pierre, editor of an excellent new book, Free Knows on Friday, which is out now. Thank you so much for joining us

1:44.3

Rebecca. Thank you it's such a pleasure to be here and the fact that you're

1:48.0

spotlight in this issue which is so often overlooked really means a lot.

1:51.2

Well I have learned a lot I have to say from your book I found it. overlooked really

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