Anne Longfield outlines the ‘rising tide of childhood vulnerability’ caused by the Covid-19 crisis over the last six months in a new report, ‘Childhood in the Time of Covid’.
She calls for a comprehensive ‘recovery package’ to help children, especially the most vulnerable, deal with the ongoing crisis.
Central to this package must be ‘significant investment’ in early help for families starting from the early years.
The report also calls for an emergency recovery package for early years providers to allow them to stay open, including additional catch up funding.
Ms Longfield said that children have suffered ‘disproportionately’ from the nation’s efforts to contain the virus and the nation’s efforts to ‘build back better’ must begin with a focus on children, sometimes ‘sadly lacking’ during the pandemic.
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