Tag: School Closures

Children were failed badly by lockdowns and the harm caused to them was preventable, leading charities and experts will tell the Government in a damning report.

Parents no longer believe their children need to be in school full-time if they are anxious, and increasingly think "life's too short" not to have a term-time holiday, a report has found.

Christopher Stevens in the Mail has reviewed Helping Our Teens, a BBC 2 show that he says shows the real price of Covid in the terrible impact of lockdowns on the U.K.'s two million troubled teens.

Nearly half of U.K. parents said their children's social and emotional skills got worse during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies has found.

Educations ruined by Covid lockdowns will impact the world for years, the IMF has warned, as it said the outlook for the global economy is the "bleakest" it has been in decades.

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.

Children were forgotten by policymakers during Covid lockdowns because they rarely got seriously ill from the virus itself, a report from University College London has found.

Ex-Chancellor George Osborne surprised many at the Covid Inquiry today by coming out as a lockdown sceptic while ex-Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies said "awful" lockdowns had "damaged a generation".

A key factor driving the world to lockdown in 2020 was remote-working technology like Zoom that, for the first time, made extended periods of isolation economically viable, argues Prof Jay Bhattacharya.

One of the most powerful teachers union bosses in the U.S. was blasted Thursday on CNN for supporting school lockdowns in the pandemic. A sign of the tide turning?