She had a troubled adolescence, culminating in three years in care, but had begun to turn her life around and planned to go to college. The first Covid lockdown cut her off from many of the positive contacts that she had developed but the risks these losses would represent was not addressed in any care plan. In a downward spiral Iris wrote hours before she died how “everything got too much for me and now I’m so alone”.
Iris’s story is an extreme illustration of the impact that Covid had on many already vulnerable children and those who work with them – social workers, teachers, youth workers have shown incredible flexibility in continuing their work over the last two years.
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