Jackie Long , Social Affairs Editor and Presenter
Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News.
Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
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Child poverty becoming ‘new normal’ in parts of country
“Poverty is the new normal” for children in some of the most deprived areas of the country, according to new study out today. The study, commissioned by a coalition of charites, suggests that in some areas, more than half of children are growing up in poverty.
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Baroness Warsi: Conservatives ‘not the best arbiters of finding a definition of Islamophobia’
A row has broken out over a proposed definition of Islamophobia.
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Children’s Minister Nadhim Zahawi on care leavers: ‘I am focused on delivering stability’
Seventeen-year-old Milo is soon to become a care leaver. Nadhim Zahawi is the Children’s Minister.
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Anne Longfield: ‘Not all school exclusions are fair, some of them are avoidable’
Anne Longfield is Children’s Commissioner for England, Luke Lissenden was excluded from a mainstream school aged 11 but is now head boy at The Rowans AP Academy, and Caron Johnson is his headteacher.
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Conservative MP Charles Walker on European elections: Tory MPs who voted against May’s deal ‘need to ask themselves some searching questions’
Conservative MP Charles Walker is a vice chairman of the party’s 1922 Committee.
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Schools Minister Nick Gibb: Schools ‘need to take responsibility’ for excluded children
We spoke to Schools Minister Nick Gibb, and began by asking if it’s fair that schools should take responsibility in their league tables for the results of former pupils.
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Labour’s Rupa Huq: ‘I don’t think it’s the job of Labour leaders to prop up ailing governments’
We speak to the Labour MP Rupa Huq who warned her party’s leaders have to be aware that any deal with the government could leave what she described as “Brexit blood on their hands.
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Green MEP Molly Scott Cato: ’We’re the strongest Remain party’
We’re joined by the Green Party MEP Molly Scott Cato.
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock: ’We need compromise in the House of Commons’
We speak to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock who was in Llangollen and I ask him – does he accept the government’s best chance now is to do a deal with Labour?
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Lib Dem MP Layla Moran on local elections: ‘We are clear about where we stand on Brexit’
We speak to the Lib Dems’ education spokesperson Layla Moran about the local election results.
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Education Secretary Damian Hinds on social mobility: ‘we need to go further and do better’
We speak to Education Secretary Damian Hinds – his department has responsibility for social mobility and we began by asking him whether he was embarrassed by its findings.
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Growing numbers of children living in ‘appalling conditions’, say teachers
We spoke to 80 primary school teachers across England, Scotland and Wales, and with the help of the National Association of Head Teachers, surveyed 400 heads.
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Tom Tugendhat MP: ‘We are not strategic partners with China in same way as we are with the US, Australia or India’
We’re joined by Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
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Charity handed out 1.6m foodbank parcels in one year – rise of 20 per cent
A leading food bank charity says the number of three-day supplies it’s given out in the last five years has “soared” by 73 per cent.
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How can the lives of children excluded from school be turned around?
According to the Children’s Commissioner, 100,000 children are barred from mainstream education every year. But what are the options for those who are excluded?
