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🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Mums who give up work or cut their hours because they have a child with special educational needs and disabilities say problems with school transport is one of the reasons. An opinion poll from Opinium commissioned by Woman's Hour for a programme on SEND last month revealed 12% of mothers flagged lack of appropriate funded transport as a problem. Woman's Hour hears from three mums, Ellie Partridge, Ramandeep Kaur and Sabiha Aziz, who are struggling to transport their children with SEND to school, and in some cases are having to pay hundreds of pounds a month. Kylie Pentelow is joined by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman Amerdeep Somal as she exclusively shares the outcome of a complaint against Sandwell Council in the West Midlands for failing to provide transport for a disabled child.
Today the Women's T20 cricket World Cup kicks off in the UAE. For some, this will be a tournament of firsts; At 11am, Scotland will be making their T20 debut against Bangladesh. Joining Kylie to look ahead to the event is the cricket commentator Alison Mitchell.
In 2021, Netflix premiered the documentary Wild Wild Country which drew global attention to the Rajneesh movement, a group of around 30,000 people at the movement’s height, who followed an Indian spiritual guru called Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. But what really drew the attention of many of the people who had grown up as part of this international community was that the experience of children was barely reflected in the six-part series. Maroesja Perizonius and her mother were part of the Rajneesh movement, joining when Maroosha was six. Maroesja has created a new documentary, Children of the Cult. She joins Kylie to talk about this very deeply personal project along with Sargam, another woman whose family became followers when she was a child.
Who were Alice Diamond, the Queen of 40 Thieves, and the Fake Heiress? In a brand new series of Lady Killers, the historian Lucy Worsley switches her attention to swindlers, con women and hustlers. From queens of the underworld, hoaxers and scammers, Lucy and a team of all female detectives travel back in time to revisit the audacious and surprising crimes of women who were trying to make it in a world made for men. Lucy joins Kylie to discuss the stories of some of these women and what their crimes teach us about women’s lives.
Presenter: Kylie Pentelow Producer: Rebecca Myatt
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0:49.0 | Today, the women who are spending hundreds of pounds a month getting their children to school. |
0:55.3 | These mothers of children with special educational needs and disabilities say their local |
0:59.7 | council won't pay for essential transport to schools that have been recommended for their |
1:05.0 | children's needs. We'll be hearing from them. Also historian Lucy Worsley joins me to |
1:10.8 | talk about women's swindlers, scammers and schemers and why bad women in history |
1:17.0 | seem to be forgotten. Plus the children of the Rajnish movement. In a new documentary women reveal what life was like living in a controversial |
1:26.1 | commune separated from their family. They say they were neglected and sexually abused. |
1:33.2 | And it's the first day of the women's T-20 cricket where Scotland begin their first ever campaign |
1:39.2 | in the World Cup. |
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