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Woman's Hour

Woman's Hour special: Breaking The Cycle

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few weeks, Woman’s Hour has been telling the stories of young people, staff and parents involved in SHiFT in Greater Manchester. SHiFT is a new approach to helping young people at risk of getting into serious trouble and it is all about relationships. Skilled professionals called ‘guides’ work with teenagers for an 18-month period and they just keep showing up. Our reporter Jo Morris went out and about with the team and spoke to teenagers and a mum about the impact of this new approach.

In this special podcast episode, our presenter Nuala McGovern guides you through the stories you might have missed.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern

Reporter: Jo Morris

Producer: Erin Riley

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Mikita Oliver and I'm Lily Allen. In our new podcast we talk about the big issues and the little ones and everything in between in the way that only best friends do with brutal brutal honesty.

0:14.0

We'll be talking about things like early crushes, techno and ambition.

0:20.0

I've had a few celebrity crushes and for the most part they've come true.

0:24.8

Miss me with Lily Allen and McKeeter Oliver listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.9

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:35.0

Hello, I'm Nula McGovran.

0:37.0

Over a week on Women's Hour, we broadcast a news series,

0:41.0

Breaking the Cycle, and we've gathered all five episodes here together in podcast form.

0:47.0

Young people at risk of getting into trouble are likely to be involved with lots of agencies,

0:51.6

police, education, justice and health systems for example.

0:56.4

As the independent review of children's care put it, they're all responding differently

1:01.1

to the same teenagers.

1:03.0

Shift is a new idea with the aim of tackling this.

1:06.0

There are currently four shift practices running around the country

1:10.0

and four more on the way.

1:12.0

And over the first year of a new one in Greater Manchester our reporter Joe Morris

1:16.6

went out and about with the team.

1:19.2

First Sally Dickon from Shift who paints a vivid picture of the young people they are trying to help.

1:25.0

A six foot tall, 17 year old who stinks of weed and grunts at you doesn't evoke a lot of sympathy a lot of people.

1:37.0

It's not everybody's cup of tea. That's not everybody's preferred profession.

1:43.0

But it is yours?

1:45.0

Yes, someone's got to do it.

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