CYP Now - Children’s commissioner: Young people's rights ‘actively downgraded’ during lockdown

Some of the most vulnerable children had their rights “actively downgraded” during lockdown “when protections should have been increased”, the children’s commissioner for England has said.

Children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield has called for a recovery plan for children. Picture: Alex Deverill

In a damning new report, Childhood in the time of Covid, Anne Longfield calls for a comprehensive recovery package for children and roadmap laying out what should be done to help children to recover from their experiences of the ongoing crisis.

Longfield states that “in many decisions taken over the last six months, children haven’t been at the forefront”.

“While pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops opened, the majority of children were not able to attend school. This disruption has been damaging to children – especially vulnerable children who are likely to have had a vastly different experience of the pandemic than their more affluent peers,” she says.

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