Covid exercise messaging left children stuck indoors, UK inquiry hears | Covid inquiry
Hearing the British investigation, children were partially like “entertainment ve and did not comply with the seriousness of restrictions.
Alice Ferguson, the founding director of Play Out, which is campaigns for children to play outside, said that the game was basic for child health and prosperity, especially with other children.
Nevertheless, during Covid, if they were caught playing on the street during Covid, they were ordered by the police in interior places if they complained to a ball and neighbors. Some parents were fined for allowing their children to play outside.
In one example, two brothers living in a high -storey apartment in the center of London came to build a snowman in January 2021, but he was ordered to return by the police. Ferguson said that the incident had a permanent effect on one of the socially worried men.
The investigation heard that the treatment of children playing outside could be dependent on messaging at the beginning of the restrictions by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at that time.
On March 23, 2020, when Johnson ordered the nation to stay at home to stop the spread of the virus, he allowed people to exercise a day, whether they are running, walking or cycles.
However, hearing, children’s exercise “looks different” to adult exercise. “The game is the main way for children to be physically active, Fer Ferguson said. “They like to play.
“By not explicitly mentioning children’s children and playing in these directives and these rules, the prime minister gave the impression of things such as walking, cycling or running.
“Thus, the police, councils, parents and wider people playing a wider understanding that there was no permission activity. It was something we initially brought up with the government.
The investigation was said to have written an article that Ferguson wrote an article that a part of the problem looked fun and that it was to comply with the seriousness of the instructions. But the game is serious for children. ”
Ferguson gave evidence about the second day of the 8th module of the Covid investigation, which suffered the experience and effect of pandema on children. The hearing, in the response of the government to the pandema, heard that children’s rights and needs were frequently ignored.
Ferguson and others called for a special cabinet minister to ensure that children’s interests were represented at the highest government level and the mistakes made during their pandemi never repeated.
Dr. Carol Homden, General Manager of Coram Children’s Charity, stressed that the restrictions that arise during pandemic affect some of the most vulnerable children in society despite the best intentions.
Children waiting to adopt, matched services have lost the opportunity to find a permanent house because they were interrupted. Homden said that the majority of children adopted were under five years of age, but some of them were “aging” during their pandem, and that they had delays in seeing a social worker in the protective care.
Homden also increased concerns about the uncomprogramic asylum experience that came to England during his pandemi and had to isolate children. “Imagine that you are just one of those young people, that you don’t speak the language, you have reached these situations, and then you have to be alone in a room that has no one to support you for 14 days.”
The investigation was said to have disappeared a large number of unaccompanied children hosted in hotels. “I don’t even think we’re starting to understand what happened to these children. This is not one or two children. Hundreds of disappeared. How can this happen and what do we do to prevent it from being again?”
The investigation continues on Wednesday and is planned to last for four weeks.
