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Children’s Voices Are Being Ignored in Covid Inquiry, Charities Claim

by Richard Eldred
14 August 2023 3:00 PM

Leading charities and experts, like Save the Children and the NSPCC, are worried that kids’ experiences during the pandemic aren’t being taken into account in the Covid Inquiry. The Telegraph has the story.

Children are being silenced by the Covid Inquiry and must not be ignored, more than 40 leading charities and experts have warned.

Save the Children U.K. and the NSPCC are among the groups that have come together to write to Baroness Hallett, the Chairman of the inquiry, to demand an explanation for “unacceptable delays” in examining the impact of the pandemic on young people.

They also raise concerns that children are unable to submit statements about their experience of the pandemic to the inquiry, unlike over-18s who have been invited to do so.

It comes despite mounting evidence of the negative effects of lockdown on children, with a recent study revealing that restrictions damaged the emotional development of almost half of children.

Dan Paskins, Director of U.K. Impact at Save the Children, said Baroness Hallett must urgently hear evidence on the impact of Government decisions on pupils.

“Children are being silenced by this inquiry,” he said. 

“They must not be ignored. Despite repeated promises from the Chair, the Rt Hon Baroness Heather Hallett, that she would urgently ensure children’s memories are captured and that the issue matters to her, no measures are in place to make this happen.

“Children are not an afterthought or an inconvenience in this inquiry process. Their lives were turned upside down by Government decisions and any barriers in the way of them having their say need to be removed immediately.”

The impact of the pandemic on children was initially omitted from the scope of the inquiry, but Baroness Hallett committed to examining it after the issue was brought to light by the Telegraph.

However, the six modules that have been announced so far do not cover this, and no timetable has been given for any investigation into the impact of the pandemic on children. Baroness Hallett is therefore not expected to hear evidence on this until 2025 or 2026.

The inquiry has so far spent £40 million after hearing just 23 days of evidence.

It has taken a two-month break before it will hear evidence in the autumn on its second module, on political and Government decision-making.

Sir Peter Wanless, Chief Executive of the NSPCC, said the inquiry must act now to avoid millions of children being “defined by the pandemic”.

“Children’s needs often went under the radar during the pandemic but we heard first-hand through Childline and the NSPCC Helpline about its devastating impact on many young people, particularly those subjected to abuse and neglect,” he said.

“Many of the children who suffered the most did so because they were hidden from those who could help them. 

“It’s crucial the Covid Inquiry finally gives young people a voice so we can fully understand the support and services required to avoid a generation of children being defined by the pandemic.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: ChildrenChildren's WelfareHallett InquiryLockdown harmsThe Covid Inquiry

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

Children spread death. They should not be seen, let alone heard.

Folks, this is what the government and their chosen experts were telling us all. And they’re still at it, it seems.

Amazing, huh?

Last edited 1 year ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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George L
George L
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

They’re still at it indeed MAK.. la France is stirring the anxiety pot at this very moment..

Covid ‘rebound’ in France: Which areas, and are doctors worried?
https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Health/Covid-rebound-in-France-Which-areas-and-are-doctors-worried

Screenshot_2023-08-14 Rise in Covid cases in France which areas and are doctors worried Heightened storm warnings for south[...].png
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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago

If a child wants to change their gender, their views would be considered invaluable but their lived experience is unimportant when it would highlight the actual failures of the experts.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  DHJ

I’ll be blunt – what is “lived experience?”

Is there such a thing as a “non-lived experience?”

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I think we’ve discussed this before. You’re right – it’s a bullshit phrase.

What it means is something like “we the anointed will decide whose experiences are ‘lived’ and therefore valid, according to how it suits our needs – this will usually be some ‘victim’ group we are using – and whose experiences are not ‘lived’ and therefore invalid – this will usually be white men, or white straight people, or ‘right wing’ people. Etc. You get the general idea.

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

The word “lived” could be dropped from the comment and the intended meaning would be the same. Any imagined experience would be non-lived but the person affected might insist otherwise.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  DHJ

Only victim groups have lived experiences.

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Sounds like it’s been co-opted like rainbows, “queer”, or your personal favourite, “pandemic”.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  DHJ

Our enemies like to try and corrupt our language

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

What is this “pandemic” mentioned in the article?

I don’t remember hearing a peep out of the charities at the time, so they can piss right off.

Translated: We want more money, now and during the next “pandemic”.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

It seems even DS can only write clickbait headlines and opening paragraphs.

I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they’re trying to drive organic traffic to the site by using popular language, and truth clearly doesn’t cut it these days…

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

But seriously, the ”pandemic” only existed for those sheeple who continued to watch/read mainstream media. For the rest of us, who turned off our tellies and gave the BBC a wide birth, it was like how the Swedes must have felt every single day. Well, except for the restrictions, abuse of civil liberties and human rights, ostracization and exclusion from society, treat like lepers or just ditched by friends and family, told to wear a muzzle or you can’t get on the bus….But in my head I was in Sweden! 🙂

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I was in Sweden, for a glorious week in autumn 2020, in some respite between early travel restrictions and later ones. Coming back was depressing.

I guess the people I saw out and about during the whole period of lockdown restrictions were a self-selected bunch, by definition not petrified otherwise they’d have been at home. But while out and about I never got any overwhelming sense that anyone really thought there was a deadly pandemic – their behaviour didn’t show that. The sense I got was of people either reluctantly following “rules” OR people who loved following rules and hated it when other people didn’t. But not visceral fear. Most people I know were in favour of most of the restrictions most of the time, and followed them most of the time, but certainly didn’t hide at home in fear, and were often happy to tell me which rules they had bent or broken but done it “sensibly”…

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George L
George L
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Surely TOF.. you remember that breeze that passed through with a 99.8% survival rate.. 😉

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  George L

I’m something of a hypochondriac, recovered/recovering/in remission… I was pretty worried for a bit until I did some reading on it, prompted by my hypochondria, and then decided to ignore it and carry on as normal. My hypochondria saved me from being a covidian maybe…

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
1 year ago

The conclusions have already been decided and the report is written – this is pure pantomime.

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George L
George L
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

Yes LM.. I’m sure that’s the reality of the situation.. putting on a show for the ‘concerned masses’.. same as it ever was..

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john ball
john ball
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

That may well be so, and so initially I was minded to have nothing to do with the Hallett Inquiry. But I have recently done a reply to their Every Story Matters webpage (obtainable on google) asking for peoples experiences, having talked to one of the leading medical groups on our side who are giving evidence to the Inquiry, and think as many of us as possible should do so to counteract those who will respond in favour of lockdowns, jab roll out etc.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

And so unimportant that it can take a 2 month break

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Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
1 year ago

I don’t remember charities like Save the Children and NSPCC standing up for children and giving them a voice when schools were closed, pupils were masked, etc. I smell rank hypocrisy here.

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Myra
Myra
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

I only remember UsForThem. Does anyone know what these other organisations did at the time?

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marebobowl
marebobowl
1 year ago

Those children will,grow up remembering their masking experience, just like we remember drills in USA schools, each week, which required us to get under our desks, because the ussr was going to drop a bomb on us.

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beaniebean
beaniebean
1 year ago

By the time the enquiry finally presents it’s whitewash at vast expense we will probably be enduring yet another “pandemic” complete with masks, lockdowns, inadequately tested vaccines, unnecessary and mandated vaccines, travel restrictions, vaccine passports, school closures etc etc etc. The plans are already in place and the WHO is poised and ready to start the ball rolling and instigate its mandated regulations world-wide.
We truly are the many ruled by the few and our voices, complaints and protests are ignored or cancelled.
It is time to wake up to the threats of this new world order. It’s time for us all to be “woke” in the original meaning of the term. We the majority are under threat as never before.

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mariawarmth
mariawarmth
1 year ago

It is perhaps more convenient for this whitewash inquiry to ignore children’s voices.
But my experience in high schools was that the most vulnerable to the damage of ALL the fatuous damaging diktats was also neurodiverse teenagers. They find it difficult to infer in understanding and innocently trust the abuser ?(so called ‘trusted sources’) as a result my view is the damage was significant to the young as a whole and those in particular with needs.
We know the lady in charge of this is a lover of masks which was one of the most dehumanising attacks on children’s communication, development!! People like her deprived the young of a smile and she is still wanting to wear one now.
Looks like it will be a doubling down expensive whitewash.

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