Covid pandemia violated “Very childhood”, in the first day of a four -week session dedicated to its influence on children and youth.
Claire Dobbin K.S., an investigation lawyer, said in her entrance submission on Monday that some of the evidence taken from 18,000 stories and 400 targeted interviews will be “difficult to listen”.
Some children lost their parents, grandparents and other loved ones to spend. Some children died from the cycle, while others continue to live with “severe and, for many long” consequences of pandemia.
Dobbin described the restriction of the game and the loss of all ordinary rituals of the passage – birthdays, graduation evenings, exams – as well as damage caused by the mental health of youth and their ability to make and maintain friendship.
She also talked about children who suffered from “grievous” harm to the hands of people who were supposed to take care of them when they were told to stay at home and lost the protection that schools usually offer.
Some young people were subjected to violent pornography and other harm, since their life quickly moved on the Internet, while many struggled to gain access to online uro and eventually spent most of the Games Day instead of studying.
One of them described: “Sitting there without school, playing [the video game] Animal intersections, for example, six months. ” The other said that they played Roblox online until 19 hours a day.
Dobbin quoted one child, saying: “People would answer a distant call to the lesson in bed, people will be a third lesson in science, and literally take off the camera and publish their stories on Instagram or their Snapchat stories, they literally look at the only way – this is Essex.”
She said: “[Covid] They deprived children of most of the fun, which makes childhood: parties on the occasion of birthday, sports, graduation evenings, school trips, holidays; All everyday aspects of what it means to be a child, but consists of The very fabric of childhood. “
The request heard a decision to close schools, “had consequences that are difficult to exaggerate.” The Ministry of Education (DFE) undertook zero planning of unforeseen circumstances to close schools before the lock was announced in March 2020.
“In England, they indicate that [DfE] He did not plan to close schools until March 16, 2020 is the reason for alarm, ”Dobbin investigation said.
She said that Jonathan Slater, the then permanent secretary of DFE, provided evidence that in the period from January to March 16, 2020, the plans of the unforeseen circumstances of the department were “based on the assumption that schools and other educational conditions would remain open. And, according to him, this corresponded to the general approach of the government for readiness for pandemic readiness at that time. ”
The evidence of Gavin Williamson, the Minister of Education at that time, agreed, but on March 17, it seems that there was a sudden change in the direction. Dobbin said: “”[Williamson] In his words, he explains that there is a discount 24-hour sea, from maintaining schools open on March 16, to discussions about the closure of schools on March 17. ”
On March 18, the schools were ordered to close. Dobbin added: “”[Williamson] He did not ask for DFE officials to prepare an assessment of the impact of the closure of schools, because the closure of schools was not recommended, and no 10 officials also did not order this advice from DFE. ”
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The investigation said that the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not agree with the version of Williamson's events in his statement to the investigation, and said that DFE knows about the possibility of closing schools.
“[Johnson’s] The data indicate that it should be investigated with him, but he thought that the planning of school closure continued, ”said Dobbin. She added: “I respect that it is important that there is a question of whether there is a planning of such a seismic event … And it is possible that it is not for DFE not to be part of, but not an income to ensure that it would be so that it is so that in accordance with his income to be not to apply for a position.
In his introductory comments on the rethought investigation, Chairman Hiser Hollett said that the influence of pandemia on children and youth was “harsh and, for many, durable”, since they missed educational opportunities, social interaction and most at risk, they lost protection against cruelty.
As a result of the impact, the film shown at the beginning of the trial described in detail some of the children voiced by adults to protect their personality. One of the participants said that her friend had died, the other lost 12 kilograms, suffering from a prochik, and the third had to be put on a fan.
A single parent described the problem with the aim of learning and take care of three children at different stages of their education. “In the end, I just said that we are not doing this,” she said, adding: “To be limited, only we are in this house, there was hell.”
The other mother said that her son was not at school since February 2022. “Our family life has completely stopped. For us, great concern, how his life will go. How he will be able to look after himself. We should not sacrifice children. Children are the future. ”
The request continues on Tuesday.
