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Ministers Were Warned More Children Would Die From Suicide than COVID-19 if they Shut Schools

by Will Jones
4 July 2023 11:47 AM

Ministers were given a stark warning that more children would die from suicide than from contracting COVID-19 if they shut schools, a damning new report from parent campaigners has revealed. The Mail has more.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on March 18th 2020 that England’s schools were to close until further notice – and they would remain shut for longer than any other country in Europe.

Many children returned to their classrooms in September 2020, only for schools to be shut again in January 2021. Even when they reopened that March, Covid outbreaks and isolation rules caused chaos.

It has now emerged that the Government was warned in November 2020 that “many more children will die from suicide than COVID-19 this year”, the Telegraph reports.

That message was given in a joint briefing paper by the Department for Education and the Independent Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours – in which they cited a rise in self-harm among young people during lockdown.

Those concerns were shared at a Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) meeting that same month – which senior scientific advisers responsible for briefing Westminster’s key players were in attendance for. 

At least 10 senior officials from the Department for Education, the Cabinet Office, the Home Office and other departments were also at the meeting and therefore heard the warnings first hand.

Despite the alarm being sounded, the Government decided schools would be closed for most of the spring term in 2021.

In 2020, 161 people aged 10-19 died from suicide in England. That figure is almost five times higher than the 34 deaths from Covid for the same age group.

The suicide warning is one of nine opportunities the Government ignored to avert damage caused by closing schools during the pandemic, according to parents campaign group UsForThem.

UsForThem, which was set up by mothers Liz Cole and Molly Kingsley amid mounting concerns, is planning to release a series of reports on the various decisions made during Covid. This will include how SAGE papers documented the impact on school closures on stemming transmission was likely to be “highly limited”.

Worth reading in full.

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Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
1 year ago

Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the “lesbian Nana” cop story is the fact that none of the other officers had the courage to take their college to one side and politely say “the kid didn’t mean it to be offensive, grow up and get over it”. No doubt if they did she would’ve made a complaint against them for being homophobic.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

‘Maaate’..?

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

LOL!😆

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

Because we’re back to the whole conformity thing again, as demonstrated by Ashe, Milgrim, Nazi Germany and more. What I find mental is that police have been used to taking verbal abuse for decades and they haven’t arrested everyone that’s called them a “pig”, for instance. Call someone something that isn’t an insult and is yet to be established to be factually correct and they descend on you like you’re an armed and dangerous terrorist! The girl made an observation ffs!🤯
I’m just glad the mam is taking legal action. The whole world’s seen the evidence of West Yorkshire police’s brutality and lack of professionalism now. I’d say this police thug and her bully cronies are all going to be in deep shit because of the high profile of the case and resulting public pressure and scrutiny.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Let’s hope so 👍

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The old bat
The old bat
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

It’s about time that police officers were made personally responsible for paying damages for false arrest, assault, illegal searches etc. That might focus the mind somewhat.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  The old bat

Seconded.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Agree, Mogs. What I find disturbing is that police are not being trained to approach domestic situations in a calm, non-confrontational, common sensical way. Police are meant to keep the peace, here we see no evidence of that. They are reacting and in this case, reacting like a bunch of entitled thugs because they were ‘offended’ FFS!

The police constable’s oath highlights this ““I do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly service the Queen in the office of constable, with fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality, upholding fundamental human rights and according equal respect to all people; and that I will, to the best of my power, cause the peace to be kept and preserved and prevent all offences against people and property…”

They do nothing of the sort in this case. I’d like to suggest that psychological assessment of all people seeking to join the police becomes mandatory!

Last edited 1 year ago by AethelredTheReadier
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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

“What I find mental is that police have been used to taking verbal abuse for decades and they haven’t arrested everyone that’s called them a “pig”, for instance”

My stepdaughter was arrested at a anti Bush Blair rally way back. Cops at her trial testified she had terrified them, for example (btw, she is the sweetest most gullible innocent young woman), by chanting such as

“Arse cheeks” at them.

“Our streets” was what she was chanting

FFS

I’m not sure the police actually serve us any more…

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

Whatever happened to Sticks and stones may brake my bones but calling will not hurt me! Ahrrrr the poor little police women, diddums do it?

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Big blokes, in fact. Been policing London streets for years, but were “terrified” by my stepdaughter. Oddly, at appeal, when the judge threw out the magistrate’s ruling, noting “she clearly did not understand the law as applied”, the rozzers said nowt.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

Good grief Jeremy, I sympathise whole heartedly! It really does make you say WTF!

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

Further to the subject of conformity; I’ve often wondered who this person was and the story behind the famous shot. There’s those that go along to get along and will always take the path of least resistance, then there’s those ( probably the minority ) who have the courage to stand up for their principles and what is morally right, no matter the unpleasant consequences of doing to. This is the story of August Landmesser;

”The photo was taken at the launch of a German army vessel in 1936, during a ceremony that was attended by Adolf Hitler himself.
Within the picture, a lone man stood with arms crossed as hundreds of men and women around him held up their arms in salute and allegiance to the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler. Everyone in attendance is showing their undying support for Der Führer by throwing out their very best “Sieg Heil”.
August Landmesser, grimacing with arms crossed, stood strong and defiant as he showed his disapproval by not displaying support for the Nazi Party.
What made this photo and Landmesser’s defiance unique is that it represented the protest of one man, in its most sincere and pure form. The source of Landmesser’s protest, like many great tragedies, starts with a love story.”

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/august-landmesser-1936/

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Myra
Myra
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Wow, that is bravery.
How would I have dealt with this?
Did his bravery achieve anything beyond him being true to his beliefs?

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  Myra

He was true to himself. It takes bravery to do that, but in modern times, when lying is now the main MO of the political classes, it behoves us all to speak the truth, whatever the consequences. Else how do we live with ourselves?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Thanks for this Mogs. A heartbreaking story.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

Not to mention that it could quite easily have been a compliment… “looks like my lovely lesbian nana”…

When did the police get the right to interpret the law, rather than just enforce it?

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

Nigel Farage says he is victim of an “establishment stitch-up”,

I’ve been saying all along that control of people through their banking isn’t a result of banks going rogue. Its something that the state has forced banks to put in place. It’s a longtime project of the state bureaucracy.

It’s just that most people haven’t been affected by it. But all the levers of control are in place and can be deployed against anyone at ant time. And they have been for some time. Farage is just the first very public case.

CBDCs are merely a refinement of a system that is already in place. It makes it more efficient, easier to execute.

But the laws and regulations to switch someone off are all in place already. And the state bureaucracy isn’t about to roll it back one single inch.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

It’s the whole premise of where we’ve been heading these last 3,1/2 years ! The State SheepDog has now almost got us corralled into the CBDC pen 🤯

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Wrote to my more-than-useless MP, Andrew Murrison, the other day about cash and CBDCs. No reply yet and not surprised at that either. They all know the game. Another letter and another will be sent. Our MPs are all part of this. We live in a dictatorship in all but name.

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zebedee
zebedee
1 year ago

“Sir Keir Starmer junks pledge to role out clean air zones across U.K.”

What a horrible typo, the state of the British press today is very sorry.

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The old bat
The old bat
1 year ago
Reply to  zebedee

But don’t you see these sort of typo’s everywhere? I blame poor education standards. a spell checker is all very well, but they often suppy the wrong word, or won’t correct a word, and if the writer doesn’t know any better, they will go along with it. My particular bugbears are misunderstood common phrases written down wrongly, such as ‘taking up the reigns’ and ‘escape goat’ or even the popular ‘chester draws’. To me it just shows a lack of general reading.

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Chris P
Chris P
1 year ago
Reply to  zebedee

At the time of writing, The Daily Sceptic had repeated the error. Is this an example of AI in action?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

“The office has been much-maligned of late, but working life, and indeed the wider economy, would be much poorer if everyone stayed at home, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.” Mr Marlow can speak for himself. In my firm, we have a lovely new office, plenty of desks for those who want to be in the office, and no-one is forced or encouraged to work from home. Staff have voted with their feet and largely stayed away. Would some of them, in my view, be better off coming in to work? Probably. Is it up to the firm to tell people how to run their lives? Not in my view. Has our productivity suffered? Absolutely not.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I guess that you are not concerned with the profitability of “my firm”?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

I am very much concerned with it, as a major shareholder. What is it that I wrote that makes you think I would not be concerned with profitability? I did specifically write that our productivity has not suffered. Other firms may have different experiences – it is for them to determine what works best for them (though from what I have seen directly and read, a lot of the drive to get people back into the office seems misguided – sunk cost in long term office space leases, bosses who like to survey their domain, bosses who measure productivity by hours spent at the desk rather than work produced).

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Reckoning on public servants working from home is that they are from 8% to 40% less productive. As the public sector’s productivity falls year by year as its higher salaries and huge pensions at the top are less and less deserved. Why on earth should someone who cannot afford tto save for their own pension be forced to subsidise public workers who complain about being taxed too much on their ONE MILLION POUND pension pots. Why the hell can’t they fund their own? (Even then it will be money generated in the private sector)

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

I’m not aware of such studies but they mat may well be the case. I would regard that as a sign of poor management and organisation rather than anything intrinsic to where people are working.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

It’s the public sector. The sense of duty to the taxpayer that once informed civil servants is long gone. They no longer serve us. We on the other hand, serve them.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

Indeed

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago

“Parents left horrified… at Pride event”

Simple solution – don’t go to pride events. If you take your kids to a festival of Moloch, you must expect them to be passed through the fire.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

My thoughts entirely..you beat me to it…one has to wonder what they thought they would be seeing at a ‘shame’ parade??

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

For everything there is a season. Pride has had its. Now Pride Parades seem in reality to be Perve & Gimp parades. Back in the day my wife went on Pride parades. She wouldn’t go near one now. Cult Transgender, as with everything it touches, had corrupted and perverted it

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Can we just take 20secs to behold what a complete tit this person is? I’m wondering if you’re gullible enough to swallow one lot of propaganda it automatically follows that you’ll buy into all the other BS narratives, thereby losing *all* your self-respect. I mean, you surely must because is it possible to be a critical thinker only on select subjects? That’s why it’s my hypothesis ( and does data on this exist? ) that people who believe the climate change narrative are the very people who fell for the pandemic narrative, that they’re jab zealots and fully paid-up members of The Cult of Woke. It wouldn’t surprise me if they tick all the boxes! My god, we have to live among these pitiful saps. 🙁

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1690455293786779648

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Celebrity or non-celebrity, it’s always the mothers. Are we experiencing a ‘pandemic’ of women with some sort of personality disorder? And the ones that are encouraging and supporting their kids doing irreparable damage to their bodies through transitioning medically and surgically are they very worst. Why is child abuse being legitimized? But most of all, for the umpteenth time, where the heck are the dads?? 😮

https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1690255606307762176

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Rebel Trouser
Rebel Trouser
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I predict that some time in the future these children, having broken the ties to their parents, will exact a terrible and savage revenge.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

Very interesting discussion with Byron Bridle….about Health Canada’s push to enforce new laws onto natural health products…. (While they are de-criminalising class A drugs!)

also @30 mins in a discussion about the fact that Moderna is going to do a study about the bio-distribution of the nano-particles…..something Byram Bridle pointed out very early in the scam, and whose life was basically wrecked by it…

https://brightlightnews.com/health-canada-changes-to-nhps-dr-byram-bridle/

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
1 year ago

This is a welcome sensible ruling:

‘Unvaccinated driving instructor wins payout’
‘Man wins over £6,000 after tribunal rules that the DVSA discriminated against him over his beliefs for not taking medicine’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/12/driving-instructor/

‘The judge ruled that Mr Green’s anti-medication belief was legitimate and said: “The tribunal found that his belief was genuinely held. We find that it is a belief and not an opinion or viewpoint. 

“We find that the belief is a facet of the claimant’s right to decide about his own bodily integrity. This is clearly a fundamental human right.”’

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Coercion was used to try to make Mr. Green take the experimental jab.

This in in contravention of the Nuremberg Code and indeed, of our own Public Health Act.

PublicHealthAct.PNG
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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

“How many perfectly good cars will be wasted by Ulez scrappage scheme?”

Not mine! My duster is going to run until it rots into the ground, then, I’m going to buy a brand new one and keep that till I die!
Ironic, the first brand new car I have ever owned will be the last car I ever own!

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

Here are the “gamechangers” in the latest battery technologies (that,strangly, never seem to actually materialise)
Salt batteries, diamond batteries, solid state batteries, sand batteries, gold batteries and now…wait for it…..Concrete batteries! The world is saved!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/concrete-buildings-could-be-turned-into-rechargeable-batteries/

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

“Brighton rock bottom: How the Greens nearly destroyed the city I love”

Nearly??

Look again love, its a shyte hole! Sodom and gomorrah comes to mind!

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

“Rich men North of Richmond”

John Lennon himself would have been proud to have wrote a song like this! Genius

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
1 year ago

With regards to rental properties the EPCrating is a farce as it doesn’t take into account how warm the tenants want to be. For me I like about 24c others slightly. Less.
Also in2025 it will be compulsory to have cental heating installed.

My house is a two up two down terraced house with two super efficient gas fires. No central heating needed.

At that point I will sell my house with all of the super efficient insulation I have installed.

Yet another piece of useless legislation hammering the landlord.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

….video about vaccine injuries….from America, but of course still salient to everyone…
Steve Kirsch is on it and is going to reveal the list of names…

https://rumble.com/v35iycg-retired-nba-all-star-john-stockton-says.html
Retired NBA All-Star John Stockton Says He Knows of 150 Pro Athletes Who’ve ‘Dropped Dead’ Since COVID Vaccine Rollout

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