Vincent McAviney: UK Correspondent on the investment into training teachers to spot misogyny and radicalism early

The UK is looking to tackle radicalisation and extreme misogyny early.  

Millions of pounds will be invested into schools to train teachers to spot signs of misogyny among boys and course correct.  

Funding will also go towards courses for radicalised young men.  

It's to counter concerns about pornography and online misogynistic influencers.  

UK correspondent Vincent McAviney told Francesca Rudkin it's a key part of the government's legislative agenda.  

He says two women die a week from domestic violence. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Vincent Mecaveny joins us now to talk about what's going
on in the UK and Europe.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning, Vincent, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
So Zelensky is and Brussels. He's urging the European Union
leaders to release some of this money, that is this
frozen Russian money to fund Ukraine's military and economic needs.
I understand a lot of it is in Belgium and
they're not hugely keen on releasing it for fear of repercussions.
Where are they are.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, This meeting is going on in Brussels with all
the EU leaders and Zelensky, he is saying that the
country will run out of money if they don't get
a fresh injection because they're making a lot of their
own drones and munitions to fight off Russia. Now two
hundred and ten billion euros worth of Russian accets are
currently being held in a Belgium based organization. The European

(00:49):
nations have been saying for years that this money should
be used to fund the war effort of Ukraine. Until now.
Belgium has tried to sort of sort of not block this,
but has been cautious this because they're saying that they're
worried about the repercussions for them, but they're essentially saying, look,
if the whole of the EU is on board with
this and is willing to sort of take the risk

(01:09):
with us, then we'll jump into the unknown and do this.
But there are some in the EU, the likes of
Victor Awband, the leader of Hungary, who is trying to
potentially block this, but Urslvon de Lyon, who is the
sort of European Commission chief, has said we're not leaving
this summer until we've got a solution to funding this.
So there could be some positive news for Ukraine in
the next few hours after what has been a really

(01:30):
difficult few months with the White House of drifting back
into the more Russian perspective.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Vincent's schools in England are trying to prevent the radicalization
of young men and so teachers are now going to
be given training to spot and tackle misogyny in the classroom.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, this is part of strategy to try to stop this,
and particularly with the links to extreme pornography. So pornography
here in the UK online has been put behind an
age barrier. Basically you've seen a massive drop in young
people being able to access it, so you have to
have a valid ID showing that you're over eighteen. But
another part of this has been an announcement today millions

(02:10):
of pounds being spent to train teachers to spot the
signs of misogyny in the classroom, particularly from the influence
of the likes of Andrew Tait, and to try to
course correct the behavior at a young age, but also
if it's got more severe, special courses that young men
can in particular can be sent on to try to
sort of deradicalize them from these misogynist, extreme misogynist views.

(02:32):
And this is part of a joined up strategy that
the government's pursuing. This is a landmark strategy they're saying,
eighteen months in the making since they came into government,
which looks across department's education, health, other departments as well
business to try to tackle violence against women. Two women
a week are killed here in the UK because of

(02:53):
domestic violence and this is something that the Prime Minister
in the government here want to make their sort of
landmark piece of legislation this year.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Will be were very keen to see how that goes. Bencent,
thank you so much for your time this morning. Have
a Lovely Christmas.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
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