It's tremendous to see 2025 kicking off with more from the Times about the devastating effect of lockdowns on children. But we'll be waiting a long time for genuine mea culpas, says Joanna Gray, for one very simple reason.
Kemi Badenoch's new Shadow Education Minister, Neil O'Brien, backed keeping schools closed during Covid lockdowns and said Prof Sunetra Gupta and other lockdown sceptics "have a hell of a lot to answer for".
Joanna Gray works with some of the countless children whose mental health was devastated by lockdown. No wonder the NHS is reporting anxiety referrals through the roof. When will children get their apology?
Primary schools have failed to return to pre-lockdown standards across reading, writing and maths for 10-11 year-olds, new figures reveal.
Former BBC newsreader Kate Silverton says she left the corporation because it failed to challenge Covid lockdowns and their impact on children.
Children who started school during the pandemic will have worse exam results well into the next decade after losing six crucial months of learning, a new report from the London School of Economics has found.
The number of pupils suspended from school has reached a record high as experts warn that bad behaviour has increased as a result of lockdown school closures.
Arch-Covidian Christina Berndt has admitted that press discussion of vaccines was too one-sided and school closures were ill-advised, but insists Germany should have locked down even harder.
Children's rights advocates are finally waking up to the devastation lockdowns visited upon young people. But they still can't bring themselves to admit that schools closures were wrong and should never have happened.
Once the golden boy of UK primary education, Mike Fairclough was the only headteacher to question the vaccinating and masking of children – and found himself being investigated by counter-terrorism agencies.
