Worst Impacts of Lockdown Harms on Children Could Have Been Avoided: Report

But parents campaign group UsforThem asked why most children’s charities couldn’t ‘advocate strongly for children at the time it would have made a difference.’

A young girl paints a picture of herself on the school window as children of key workers take part in school activities at Oldfield Brow Primary School in Altrincham, England, on April 8, 2020. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Children’s charities have criticised the government for the “preventable” harm caused to children during lockdown in a report for the COVID Inquiry.

In a report (pdf) called “What about the children?” released on Wednesday by Save the Children, the Children’s Rights Alliance for England and Just for Kids Law said that the impacts of the government response to COVID-19 will be “long-lasting and era-defining.”