Period photos on social media, School skirts a distraction? Anti-extremism

Saltley Academy, a school in Birmingham at the heart of the alleged ‘Trojan Horse’ plot is fighting the so-called Islamic State’s propaganda and radicalisation with a new campaign ‘Open Your Eyes’. The campaign was launched by anti-extremism charity Upstanding Neighbourhoods with the support of the Amar Foundation. It aims to combat the radicalisation of young people by hosting talks from young Iraqi Yazidi women, who escaped sex slavery at the hands of the Islamic State Group. Baroness Nicholson, the Founder and Chairman of the Amar Foundation also joins Jenni to discuss how she managed to get the Yazidi women visas to come to Britain and why she is desperate to help them tell their story.

A school in Stoke-on-Trent has banned skirts because they are ‘distracting’ to male teachers and pupils.  The head teacher says as girls ‘get older their skirts get shorter’.  Jessica Ringrose, UCL Professor in Gender and Education, Francis Gilbert, teacher, author and Guardian journalist, and Vic Goddard, head teacher of Education Essex’ Passmores academy, are in the studio.