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Radio 4,24 Jul 2014,56 mins
School Holiday Hunger; Reform of Private Healthcare; The Truth About Surveys
You and YoursAvailable for over a year
You and Yours examines claims that children who get free school meals go hungry in the summer holidays. We hear from a teacher who says students return noticeably thinner. Spain's school canteens will stay open this summer - should ours follow suit? Business leaders say the private healthcare system needs reform as much as the banking industry, according to new research by health insurance company Bupa. We ask what's going wrong and what needs to change. And when is a survey worth paying attention to - just how reliable is the research behind those newspaper headlines?
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