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Radio 4,07 Sep 2015,45 mins

Summer children and NHS 111

You and Yours

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Phillippa Murphy's daughter Poppy was due to start reception aged just four years and two weeks. Deciding she simply was not ready, she decided to delay a year. Parents across the UK face the same dilemma - but not all councils offer the same options if you think your summer born child will struggle alongside older children. As Liverpool City Council changes its policy, and Parliament hears about the problem, we talk to a parent in Oxfordshire who says her daughter has been let down. And access to our pension funds changed in April. Chancellor George Osborne gave us new powers to access our funds - but what did we do with them? We look at whether savers have been splashing the cash, analysing figures from the Association of British Insurers alongside Jamie Jenkins of Standard Life. How do people who are deaf or have a hearing impairment contact the emergency services? A new trial is being carried out for the NHS 111 service using British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters. And very big architects working on some very small homes. Melanie Abbott squeezes in to a Y Cube - new accommodation commissioned by the YMCA.

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