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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

Covid school closures in UK damaged ‘very fabric of childhood’

A lock hangs on a primary school gate in Deptford, south London during period of school closures in Covid
The Department for Education was said to have undertaken no contingency planning for school closures before lockdown was declared. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

The Covid pandemic disrupted the “very fabric of childhood”, the UK inquiry has heard, on the first day of a four-week session devoted to its impact on children and young people.

Clair Dobbin KC, counsel to the inquiry, said in her opening submission on Monday that some of the evidence drawn from the 18,000 stories and 400 targeted interviews would be “hard to listen to”.

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