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Woman's Hour: Calais 'Jungle' camp, Edinburgh Fringe, Attitudes towards disability

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Calais 'Jungle' camp, Edinburgh Fringe, Attitudes towards disability

01/08/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Calais 'Jungle' camp, Edinburgh Fringe, Attitudes towards disability

How women and children fare in the 'Jungle' camp in Calais.

How women and children fare in the 'Jungle' camp in Calais. Plus 'Best Newcomer' Sofie Hagen on the Edinburgh Fringe and novelist Emma Claire Sweeney talks about her inspiration.

We hear the first in a series of features about the reality of day to day life for women, mother and child migrants, and refugees living in the 'jungle' camp in Calais. Reporter Catherine Carr visits one accommodation centre for women and children funded by the French government, a food distribution point and a health centre.

With the start of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival later this week, we talk to Sofie Hagen, winner of Best Newcomer a year ago for her show 'Bubblewrap'. What's it like being a stand-up comedian when you're an introvert?

Novelist Emma Claire Sweeney talks about her first novel, inspired by her sister who has cerebral palsy and autism. What does the research she did for the book Owl Song at Dawn tell her about how attitudes to disability have changed over time?

Sure Start was a flagship policy of the 1997 Labour government, aimed at improving outcomes for children and their families with the focus on those in greatest need. With budgets reduced and local authorities restructuring their services in recent years what does the future look like for early-years services? Naomi Eisenstadt, the first director of the Sure Start programme, gives her assessment of its impact and future.

Presenter: Nikki Bedi
Producer: Anne Peacock.

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