Women's Football, Covid-19 - Impact on Children, The Lives of Houses, Loneliness and Isolation

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

All professional and grassroots football matches across the country have been suspended due to the COVID-19 outbreak. As the men’s teams are forced from the pitch and income falls away what will happen to the women’s teams they supported? Jen O'Neill, editor of shekicks.net and Kerys Harrop, Captain of Birmingham City Ladies, discuss the issues.

The Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, told Woman’s Hour at the start of the year that the system of support for the most vulnerable children was under strain. The Covid 19 crisis has put additional pressures on that system, with many vulnerable children now out of school and many of their services closed. She says that she’s especially concerned about one million children who were at risk -living in households which are not stable, where there might be domestic violence, drug or alcohol addiction, financial hardship and severe mental health issues. She explains what these children need now.

The Lives of Houses – a collection of essays which asks what a house can tell us about the person who lived there. Hermione Lee describes why we are so fascinated by the homes of the famous and often long dead.

And, as the word home takes on a new significance in this lockdown – how hard is isolation if you live alone and how can you avoid suffering from loneliness? Jenni speaks to Kate Shurety the executive Director of the Campaign to End Loneliness and Rosie Weatherley from the mental health charity Mind.

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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, music radio podcasts.
0:35.0	Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to Wednesday's edition of the Women's Hour Podcasts on the 1st of April.
0:44.0	Good morning.
0:45.0	Just as women's football began to be taken seriously and command an audience comes COVID-19. As the men's teams are forced from the pitch and income falls away,
0:56.4	what will happen to the women's teams they supported. The lives of houses, a collection of Essays which asks what a house can tell us about the person who lived there.
1:08.0	Why are we so fascinated by the homes of the famous and often long dead? And as the word home takes on a new
1:15.5	significance in this lockdown, how hard is isolation if you live alone and how can
1:21.4	you avoid suffering from loneliness?
1:24.0	Now at the start of this year the Children's Commissioner for
1:28.0	England and Longfield told us that the system of support for the most
1:32.0	vulnerable children was under strain and more money was
1:36.2	needed. The current crisis is of course putting even more pressure on that system as lots of those children are now at a school, their services are closed,
1:46.8	and they may be living in households which are not stable where there may be poverty,
1:51.1	domestic violence, drug or alcohol addiction and of course severe
1:55.1	mental health problems. But what do those children need now? I'm joined by Anne Longfield.
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