Impact on Children in Lockdown to Be Included in Official UK COVID-19 Pandemic Inquiry

In a reception classroom, children sit apart from each other at Brambles Primary Academy in Huddersfield, England, on June 4, 2020. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images

Children’s welfare will be added to an inquiry that hopes to learn lessons from the British government’s response to COVID 19.

On Thursday, Baroness Hallett, a former High Court judge and the Chair of the UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry, wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with her proposed changes for an Inquiry that will play a key role in examining the UK’s pandemic response.