Sabina Nessa, Fertility Warnings, Flexible Working

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Police Minister, Kit Malthouse, talks to Woman's Hour about violence towards women in the light of Sabina Nessa's murder. We talk to him about the funding and strategies that were promised to how the police will act at Friday's evening vigil for Sabina.

We speak to Professor Adam Balen, a consultant in reproductive Medicine at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, about why he thinks it's a good idea to have special messages in contraceptive packages advising people not to leave it too late if they want a baby.

We discuss flexible working and how it really works in practice. At the moment when you've lasted 26 weeks in your job you have the right to request flexible working, but now there are government plans to let you make that request from day one. We speak to Emma Stewart from Timewise who wants those plans to go even further and to Leanne Skelton who runs a nursery and worries that more flexibility will be a logistical nightmare.

And we speak to two women who love gaming, but say there's some alarming and worrying abuse towards women and non-white gamers. They are Shay Thompson, a gaming journalist and presenter as well as Cassie Hughes who's the co-founder of Black Twitch UK.

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Fladiated.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds.
0:30.0	BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts.
0:35.0	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4.
0:40.0	Hello and welcome to the program.
0:42.0	Sabine Anessa, a 28 year old primary school teacher who was murdered walking through a park near her home on Friday evening in South London,
0:50.0	is being remembered by her family who say they are devastated and she's being remembered as a beautiful soul.
0:57.2	The Met Police believe the attack happened in Kator Park, Kidbrook around 830 in the evening at a time when the park was likely being used by many people, their words.
1:06.0	Sabina's body was found the next morning. Here's her cousin, Zubel Ahmed.
1:11.0	We're still in shock, it's been a few days but still not sunk in yet and we are all truly
1:17.8	devastated. Her parents are absolutely absolutely shocked to hear of their
1:25.0	so to hear of their daughter being taken away from them.
1:30.0	She honestly was the most caring person, kindest sweetest girl you can meet.
1:35.0	The sweetest girl you could meet.
1:38.0	Many people sharing her name today across social media and in the previous few days Sabina Nessa and on a Friday
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