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Slimming World is the leading diet organisation in the UK. It has 700,000 members and, at a time when obesity is spiralling in the UK, it has helped millions lose weight. It has contracts with the NHS and local government. If you meet the criteria, your doctor can sign you up for free. But could the Slimming World diet be encouraging disordered eating by some members?
File on 4 hears from people who believe that Slimming World has seriously damaged their health and destroyed their relationship with food.
Reporter: Josephine Casserly
Producer: Immy Rhodes
Technical Producer: Craig Boardman
Production Coordinator: Tim Fernley
Editor: Carl Johnston
Image Credit: Kseniya Ovchinnikova\Getty

Jodie had everything - a good job, great friends and a busy social life. But her world was turned upside down when she was targeted by an online abuser who posted pornographic deepfakes of her online. Initially turned away by the police, she turned detective herself - but nothing could prepare her for what she eventually discovers. She now struggles to trust anyone. And what happened to Jodie could happen to any of us. Here she tells her story for the very first time.
Reporter: Kate West
Producer: Rhoda Buchanan
Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards
Digital Producer: Melanie Stewart-Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Tim Fernley
Editor: Carl Johnston
If you’ve been a victim of harassment, stalking or revenge porn, details of organisations offering information and support are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

As the cost of living crisis continues to increase the strain on families, a record 142,000 children in England are homeless and living in what should be short term temporary accommodation.
Children are being consigned to B&Bs and hotels, former office blocks - even shipping containers – some without a bed of their own, living among rats and cockroaches - conditions the children’s commissioner has condemned as Dickensian.
With the help of young people and their families, File on 4 investigates how temporary accommodation - meant to be a short term safety net - has become a trap some children can’t escape.
Reporter: Jane Deith
Producer: Nicola Dowling
Technical Producer: James Beard
Production Coordinator: Jordan King
Editors: Clare Fordham and Carl Johnston
Image: Imgorthand via Getty Images

‘Employee Assistance Programmes’ - almost 25 million workers in the UK have access to one through their employer. They’re designed to help people deal with personal problems that might affect their performance at work by offering advice, support or counselling sessions. But are all providers offering a good service? File on 4 investigates.
Reporter: Alys Harte
Producers: Vicky Carter and Ella Rule
Technical Producer: Craig Boardman
Production Coordinators: Jordan King and Tim Fernley
Editors: Clare Fordham and Carl Johnston

"Maria" ended up in A and E after being assaulted by her 11-year-old child. There’s nothing unusual about children being rude or sometimes abusive to their parents, particularly when they’re adolescents. But some parents are attacked and abused by their children on a regular basis. It’s a pattern of behaviour that can begin as young as three years old and become unmanageable by teenage years.
Many parents remain silent out of shame and out of fear of the consequences if they seek help, worried that their child may be taken into care or criminalised. So it’s a hidden problem. The issue is now on the government’s agenda with a consultation that’s aiming to find a common definition for the issue. Jo Glanville talks to parents, practitioners and researchers about what happens in families when a child becomes violent, what should be done to support them and what lies behind this kind of behaviour.
Presented and Produced by Jo Glanville
Executive Editor: Bridget Harney
Research: Maia Miller-Lewis
Studio Manager: Jon Calver
Actors: Jayne Ashbourne and Juliet Cowan
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4
Organisations in the programme offering information or support on child to parent violence:
Family Lives
Parentline family support and bullying helpline | Family Lives
https://www.familylives.org.uk/how-we-can-help/confidential-helpline
CAPA First Response
Capa First Response | You are not alone - Capa First Response
https://capafirstresponse.org/
Talk Listen Change
Young People’s Programmes - TLC: Talk, Listen, Change (talklistenchange.org.uk)
https://talklistenchange.org.uk/project/young-peoples-programmes/
Holes in the Wall
HOLES IN THE WALL | documenting parent abuse
https://holesinthewall.co.uk/

It’s a scandal that went uncovered for 30 years. Body parts and organs from former workers in the nuclear industry were systematically removed for research. But the families of those former workers were never told. The truth only came to light following a three year inquiry published in 2010. But was this practice contained to one industry, or was this happening on behalf of others too?
News reports around the time of the Sellafield scandal claimed that organs of coal miners were also being routinely removed during post-mortems at the request of the then National Coal Board.
So, was the coal industry involved in a similar scandal - and to what extent? And could the need to advance research and science ever be seen to outweigh the need for permission?
Reporter and producer: Emma Forde
Technical Producer: Richard Hannaford
Journalism Assistant: Tim Fernley
Editor: Clare Fordham