Speaking at the Early Intervention Foundation’s national conference yesterday (8 December), Tulip Siddiq criticised the government’s handling of support services for vulnerable children during the Covid-19 pandemic.
She said: “They have been treated like an afterthought in policy making.”
Siddiq said that during the first lockdown, which began in March, “many thousands of children were struggling or facing potentially very serious problems, hidden from view and from support services.”
School closures and restrictions on socialising are “disruptive” and have had a “huge impact on the wellbeing of children”, she added.
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