Social contract between parents and schools broken since Covid, Ofsted says

By Admin 23/11/2023

Coronavirus | The Guardian Chief inspector’s report on England’s schools highlights absenteeism and parental challenges to rulesThe “unwritten agreement” between parents and schools in England has broken since the Covid pandemic, according to Ofsted’s chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, with pupil absences remaining stubbornly high and disruptive behaviour now more common.Delivering her final annual report as […]Continue reading

Whitty implored officials not to use terms like ‘flatten curve’, Covid inquiry told

By Admin 21/11/2023

Coronavirus | The Guardian England’s chief medical officer says incomplete knowledge of epidemiological concepts can be ‘dangerous thing’Sir Chris Whitty spent early parts of the Covid pandemic trying to “implore” people in government not to publicly discuss health concepts they did not fully understand such as “flattening the curve” of infections and herd immunity, he […]Continue reading

Children in UK will be living in long shadow of Covid for next two decades, inquiry told

By Admin 06/10/2023

Coronavirus | The Guardian Anne Longfield, England’s former children’s commissioner, said ministers were indifferent to children during lockdownChildren will be living in the “long shadow” of the pandemic for the next two decades thanks to the government’s “indifference” to them during lockdown, England’s former children’s commissioner has told the Covid inquiry.The long-term, “devastating impact” the […]Continue reading