Under-age cosmetic surgery, Housing for Women, Labour leadership
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at under-18 access to procedures carried out at cosmetic clinics. A listener contacted us to voice her concern over the way these places are regulated because, in the last 18 months, her daughter who is now 17 has accessed more than 20 clinics for around 30 procedures. She was never asked to prove her age despite being asked to sign paperwork saying she is over 18. We hear from our listener and Miss Caroline Payne, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon and a member of British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.
Five candidates have secured backing from 22 MPs or MEPs, to see their names go on the ballot to become the next Labour leader. The names of four women and a man will go forward: Rebecca Long Bailey, Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips, Emily Thornberry and Keir Starmer. After the Conservative Party selected its second woman Prime Minister many senior Labour politicians have insisted that the next Labour leader must be a woman. But does it need to be a woman who can win back the women voters the party lost? What do women voters want to hear from the next Labour leader? And is it a problem if the party fails to select a woman once again?
We’ve had a phenomenal response to our interview last week about women and concussion. Dr Priyanka Pradhan - a Woman’s Hour listener and consultant neuropsychologist at St George’s Hospital in London – got in touch to share her expertise in managing concussion and post-concussion syndrome. Jane also reads out a selection of your emails.
We speak to the heads of the UK's only two women’s housing associations - Zaiba Qureshi, Chief Executive of Housing for Women and Denise Fowler, Chief Executive of Women’s Pioneer Housing - about how central the issue of housing was to women’s suffrage campaigns, and whether the housing needs of women have changed much since then.
Presenter - Jane Garvey Producer - Anna Lacey Voice actor - Heather Craney Guest - Caroline Payne Guest - Jenny Chapman Guest - Yasmin Qureshi Guest - Dr Priyanka Pradhan Guest - Zaiba Qureshi Guest - Denise Fowler
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.3 | This is the Woman's Our Podcast. |
| 0:07.5 | Today at five candidates for a woman, but will a man still get to lead the Labour Party |
| 0:12.8 | when the results announced in early April? |
| 0:15.8 | Also today, why housing is a women's issue and more on concussion because we are still |
| 0:21.0 | getting emails on the subject of women and concussion after we discuss that subject a |
| 0:26.3 | week or so ago. |
| 0:28.2 | I think this is something that is going to shock and surprise many people. |
| 0:31.6 | The rules surrounding under 18s getting cosmetic procedures. |
| 0:36.5 | You're about to hear one listener's experience. |
| 0:39.9 | Now, she contacted the programme because her teenage daughter had access more than 20 clinics |
| 0:45.5 | for around 30 different procedures without ever being asked to prove her age. |
| 0:52.1 | I should say she was asked to sign paperwork saying that she was over 18. |
| 0:56.9 | Now, the woman's words are going to be spoken by a BBC actor. |
| 1:00.2 | I asked initially why her daughter had wanted to pursue the idea of any sort of cosmetic procedure. |
| 1:07.6 | I think it stemmed from when she was younger, when she had developed an eating disorder. |
| 1:12.8 | She had anorexia which she was treated for with an eating disorder clinic. |
| 1:17.6 | She made a more or less good recovery. She was discharged. |
| 1:21.8 | Then her thought processes, because she's quite a rigid thinker, her thought process moved |
| 1:27.9 | away from obsessing over food and became obsessing over her looks. |
| 1:33.6 | It was particularly about her nose that she became obsessed with really. |
| 1:39.4 | I think it stemmed from her very very low self-esteem and then sort of from anorexia |
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