Tracey Neville: Head Coach of the England Women’s Netball Team
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Netball is played in schools across the UK, but as a professional sport has had little recognition. When the England Netball team took home Gold at the Commonwealth Games last year, that changed. Head Coach Tracey Neville joins us to discuss the impact that moment had, and what she loves so much about the game.
In the UK, there are 800,000 disabled children under the age of 16 - nearly all of them live at home and are supported by their families. But what happens when their behaviour becomes so challenging you struggle to look after them? We look at the difficult decision to consider whether residential care might be the answer not only for them but for you and the rest of the family. We hear from Sharon King, mother of three older children all of whom are on the autism spectrum, and Amanda Batten Chief Executive Contact a charity for families of disabled children.
Breast ironing is a way to stop teenagers’ breasts from growing. It’s painful and sometimes involves large, hot stones pushing down on the breasts. Hammers or spatulas are also used, and so are elastic belts or binders. Usually mothers do it, calling it tradition and saying that it stops their daughters being sexually attractive or sexually active. It happens in several African countries but cases have been recorded in the UK too, although it’s impossible to know the true scale. This week the UK Government has called it child abuse and says it will be dealt with in law.
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Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Kirsty Starkey
Interviewed Guest: Amanda Barren Interviewed Guest: Sharon King Interviewed Guest: Tracey Neville Interviewed Guest: Milly Kerr Interviewed Guest: Laura Mucha
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| 0:41.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to Thursday's edition of the Women's Our |
| 0:45.3 | podcast. Tracey Neville's brothers Gary and Phil went for football. |
| 0:50.3 | Tracy excelled at netball. As England's head coach, where can she take the team that won |
| 0:56.4 | gold at last year's Commonwealth Games? On Valentine's Day, love factually, the science of why we fall in love and with whom. |
| 1:07.0 | And as Katie Price announces her decision to send her severely disabled son into care, |
| 1:12.3 | how does a parent make such a difficult decision and |
| 1:15.2 | what's available for the child? |
| 1:18.6 | Now we've become very familiar in recent years with the scandal of female genital mutilation and there has now been a |
| 1:24.7 | conviction as a result of the law which bans it in this country and aims to prevent girls |
| 1:30.3 | being taken abroad to have it done to them. Breast ironing has only recently begun to be |
| 1:37.0 | discussed and we learned today that the government has described it as child abuse, |
| 1:42.1 | suggests the police should prosecute any offenders |
| 1:44.7 | under assault laws, but does not intend to introduce a separate law to cover the practice. |
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