Five children’s rights organisations told the Covid-19 inquiry that the pandemic ‘exacerbated’ deep inequalities within the UK and highlighted the ‘total invisibility’ of children within Government decision making.
On Friday (6 September), Module 8 of the Covid inquiry into the impact of the pandemic on children and young people got underway with a preliminary hearing. Under Model 8 evidence will be given on how inadequate protection or children during the pandemic contributed to an epidemic in poor mental health, widening of inequalities in education outcomes and in diminished life chance for children. Evidence will be taken next year.
Within their submission to the Inquiry, the charities – Centre for Young Lives, the Child Poverty Action Group, Save the Children UK, Just for Kids Law and the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, claim that ‘significant inequality and a lack of political will to prioritise children before, during and after Covid, created a perfect storm of challenges for children’.
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