Children’s rights were not sufficiently considered when lockdown decisions were taken and seeing Boris Johnson with a birthday cake in the pandemic “touched a particular nerve” as a reminder of all the parties missed by the nation’s young people, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has heard.
There was a “serious, inexcusable and avoidable failure of governance and policymaking”, a lawyer for children’s groups said as hearings in the inquiry’s second module continued on Wednesday.
