Nearly All Children Impacted by COVID-19 Lockdowns: UK Education Watchdog

Lauren McLean, 15, and Felix Dima, 13, attend a clinic to receive their flu and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccinations at the Excelsior Academy in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on Sept. 22, 2021. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Nearly all children in England have seen their education impacted as a result of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, the UK’s education watchdog Ofsted has warned.

In the watchdog’s annual report, Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman said the message around the harm that lockdowns cause children—and the importance of in-person schooling—“needs repeating now.”