The harm caused to children by lockdown was preventable, leading charities and experts will tell the Government in a damning report. The Telegraph has more.
The Children’s Rights Organisations alliance says social distancing and the closure of schools and playgrounds during the Covid pandemic had “long-lasting and era-defining impacts”.
The group, which includes Save the Children, Just for Kids Law and the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, was established to give written evidence to the Covid Inquiry.
Its report, entitled ‘What About The Children?’, argues that harm could have been avoided if ministers had considered children’s rights when making decisions on how to limit the spread of the virus.
It will be submitted to the inquiry – which resumes evidence hearings next week, scrutinising Government decision-making and the response to the pandemic – on Wednesday.
Its headline finding is that the “worst impacts of the pandemic for children could have been prevented if their voices were heard and if children’s rights were considered by U.K. decision-makers”.
Anne Longfield, who was Children’s Commissioner for the first year of the pandemic and is backing the paper, said: “This report sets out in very stark terms how children were frequently at the back of the queue when the Government made its biggest decisions about lockdown and reopening the economy.
“Three years on, and many children and families are paying the price for the mistakes that were made. So many of the long-term problems arising from Covid could have been alleviated, or even prevented altogether, had the interests of children been made a top priority by the Government. This must never happen again.”
During the pandemic, the number of young people seeking help for mental health problems surged, jumping from 12.1% of children in 2017 to 17.8% last year.
Last month, a survey of more than 6,000 parents in England found that lockdown had damaged the emotional development of almost half of children.
Meanwhile, the proportion of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths by the end of primary school fell from 65% in 2018-19 to 59% in 2022-23.
The report says that, had schools been deemed essential infrastructure – putting them on a par with hospitals and public transport, which remained open during Covid – children may not have suffered harms such as loss of learning, child abuse and high risk of poor mental health.
It adds that early years experts were “particularly concerned” about children’s speech and language development, with some noticing delays in babies’ physical development after the closure of nurseries.
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Sorry but I don’t remember Save the Children speaking up at the time and I was following things quite closely. But perhaps they did and I missed it. I didn’t miss UsForThem speaking up though.
Anyway I don’t buy the “essential infrastructure” line. It’s just arbitrary. Lockdowns were wrong, they damaged everyone and everything and nothing should have been closed or restricted. The end.
And…. what pandemic?
Indeed- “problems arising from Covid” –
there were none except the response of the state and the institutions
Spot on tof.
Not my problem – I never supported the idiocy.
I have a couple of nieces who are teachers, one of them works in Halifax and in a rough area.
When the schools re-opened after Lockdown my niece told me that she was shocked by how many of her little charges, 7 / 8 year old were speaking with American accents.
Halifax, West Yorkshire, e-bygum, how do, where’s tha bin, that Yorkshire.
The little tots speak Yank. Any guesses?
That’s really quite sad
Of course protecting the West Yorkshire dialect isn’t a priority as it’s spoken by evil colonial white people
It is very sad tof but according to my niece, who had to do house visits on the vulnerable, the poor little mites were frequently left all day in front of a TV playing imported American sitcoms and the like.
Thanks Bozo.
Yes – too much YouTube and the like, they heard American accents all day.
”The harm caused to children by lockdown was preventable” No sh*t! 3.5 years later this is tedious AF, especially as we all know not a single person will be held to account. Not now, not after the farcical ‘Inquiry’, not ever. Every one of the b’stards responsible has indemnity from liability, much like Big Pharma, who get to enjoy all of the profits with none of the risks. Sweden did great, their kids didn’t suffer, but nobody was brave enough to follow Sweden, who are now having the last laugh given their status of having the lowest excess deaths in Europe and an economy that wasn’t obliterated. How’d you like them apples? Globalist, child-abusing scumbags.
There was no pandemic, only genocide, just as David Martin said. Everyone awake knows the ‘virus’ was merely the Trojan horse to get the ball rolling for everything else to fall into place and for what the elites have in store for us. So we can bang on about how useless masks are, how damaging lockdowns were for kids and how ineffective/damaging the restrictions were in general for the next 3.5 years but what exactly are we realistically hoping this will accomplish? To see anyone stand trial for any of these blatant crimes committed against citizens is pure fantasy. I prefer to stop looking over my shoulder at what’s been done and ensure instead that my focus is on what is currently happening all around us as the corrupt ‘powers that be’, and all of their associate tyrants and well-placed WEF puppets get their ducks in a row as they prepare more attacks on our freedoms and rights in the near future.
I just feel like it hasn’t occurred to people that the whole reason these tyrant barstewards went ahead and trampled all over our civil liberties and human rights in such an unprecedented manner ( all over a piggin’ flu, FFS!! ) in the first place is because they knew full well ( given assurances by their puppet masters, obviously ) that they’d be safe as houses and there’d be no recourse or repercussions for them personally. Exactly the same as the Big Pharma criminals. The whole lot of them are untouchable, be it Fauci, Ferguson, PMs, Premiers, Presidents, you name it. They’re all above the law because they’re the movers and shakers and live in a parallel universe where ”do as I say, not as I do” is one of their favourite mantras they live by. Because ”buy an electric car/drive at 20mph/cull your farting herd of cattle, while I fly in my private plane multiple times a year” makes it all okay when you are a member of the ‘elite’ and hold all of the power.
No amount of reports will make a difference just like no amount of studies showing the harms of the jabs will make a difference. The mafia aren’t going anywhere, in the same way their extremely lucrative but proven dangerous injections aren’t going anywhere. All that above report amounts to is yet another bit of ineffectual information, whether it be a peer-reviewed study or not, which will be swept directly into the black hole under the rug. Not to be acted upon and to be dutifully ignored, same as the discovery of DNA contamination in the jabs or the 1,982nd paper demonstrating they cause myocarditis. It changes precisely nothing, nada. How do you take on and fight people who make the laws? This is the problem we all have now and the world we live in. It’s the censorship/totalitarian creep that I’m most worried about.
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1705207929257800033
Mogs I am in full agreement. These murderers you have listed do believe they can walk on water and for now I suppose they can. What is important is that we understand where all this is heading and this linked article pulls everything together, even for me. We have to try to wake people up to where things are headed. If we can awaken people to the coming horrors we might still have a chance but our circumstances are Death or Glory. It’s that grim.
https://www.technocracy.news/technocracy-sustainable-is-the-new-code-word-for-genocide/
Cheers m’dears.
Just read it. Excellent article and highly recommended. It’s just a shame we don’t see so much of this type of thing shared by the DS team. It’s why I couldn’t give a rat’s arse about masks or lockdowns. This, as covered in your article, is the real threat, so forgive me if I think we’ve got bigger fish to fry than harping on about what’s been and gone or wondering if our governments are going to lock us down again this winter. Time to move on and get with the programme. Focusing on what happened 3 years ago doesn’t serve us going forward. It was all just the social engineers working on mass behavioural change, as this was of the utmost importance for them to achieve in order to fulfill their objectives. Well it worked. How many doses of a completely unnecessary, untested, unsafe novel medication did they deliver into how many ‘lab rats’ since the global rollout?
How many obedient brain-donors still believe there was a pandemic or that they still would follow government instructions at the drop of a hat should such an alleged threat arise again? I’ll bet they’ve got their freshly laundered muzzles all ready at home along with a box of fraudulent tests in the draw, just say the word and Pavlov’s dogs will swing into servile action. As long as the instructions are coming from an authoritative source such as the BBC then you know it must be true.
On the positive side I’m confident there’s more awake now than there was in 2020-2022, so the tipping point has been reached, in my opinion. And once your eyes are open about one particular scam then it’s a lot harder for those same BS artist talking heads to fool you into believing in another tall tail. I just think, for most people, you’re either one way or the other. No half measures. You’re either still blue-pilled, believing in all of the fake narratives, or you’re red-pilled and have become clued up that the whole lot is a complete crock. I mean, is it really possible to be able to see through the whole scamdemic/death jab thing but be fully onboard with the official narrative about ‘climate change’?
“Is it really possible to be able to see through the whole scamdemic/death jab thing but be fully onboard with the official narrative about ‘climate change’?”
This is the essence of where we are now Mogs. Even some of the most die hard covidians are balking at the net zero nonsense. I have a number of colleagues very much into motor bikes (not interested personally) and fully jabbed but they will not accept climate change / net zero crap at all. Some of them can see the links – ULEZ, digital ID, 15 minute ghettos and realise they have been had even though they won’t admit as much and certainly not to me. None of them are interested in EV’s. Net Zero is going to be the start of the fightback.
It looks like some of the Davos mob are aware this might be a hard push, Gates is firkin about and rowing back apparently but as we know net zero is nothing to do with the planet and everything to do with control. I suspect they will try another tack in the coming months.
So I agree “we’ve got bigger fish to fry than harping on about what’s been and gone or wondering if our governments are going to lock us down again this winter. “
We have to make people understand that everything happening on the planet right now is aimed at massive depopulation. Massive like 6-7 billion.
This is the message to push.
https://www.truthforhealth.org/2023/09/mrna-contamination-of-food-supply-threat/
mRNA injections in to animals with drugs they don’t need.
Upcoming “died suddenly” disease in animals? Better have a cull. Send for Bliar.
Don’t bet against it.
Just have a look at this meme.
Talk about nail on the head.
I’m not sure that worked.
‘The government’s decision making during covid’ you’re taking the piss. The government weren’t making decisions they were taking orders. I keep saying this, TPTB don’t give a shit about children all the covid con does is help with the indoctrination.
It’s all a bit late for children’s charities now w**kers.
It doesn’t take a genius and I’m far from a genius but I was screaming from the roof tops about how much lockdowns would damage children. All I ever got was their vectors for transmission and oh so many people are dieing, even teacher friends. And now the damage has been done and all they want to do is bury their heads in the sand.
Where were these so called childrens charities when the Lockdown was going on? did anyone notice their outrage and legal challenges to the Government? did anyone see them protesting? anything?. The only organisation with the guts to stand up for children was usfor them, a small organisation started by a group of Mothers.
Now there is an inquiry and the chance to get a bit of PR and no doubt try and fill the coffers to pay the CEO’s and their management teams their hefty salaries, they have come crawling out of the woodwork.
They have more concern for their pockets than they do children, and they have shown their glorious hypocrisy to us all.
I will never give a penny to any of these large so called childrens charities, because when it came for them to actually defend children they were absent from the fight. Likewise I do not hear them trying to protect young children from being permanantly deformed and injured by the current cult of Trans.
“I will never give a penny to any of these large so called childrens charities”
As I put it:
Donations to charities are just secondary taxation for the gullible.
Good post.