Harriet Sergeant: Children Still Suffering Long-Term Damage From Lockdowns

Some children are still suffering the consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns and without intervention, this will incur a “huge cost” to themselves and society, according to journalist and author Harriet Sergeant. Speaking to Lee Hall of NTD’s “British Thought Leaders” programme, Ms. Sergeant said many children “have had long term damage because of absence from schools. And this shows in the so-called ghost children—the children that have just dropped off the school rolls.” “Before lockdown, there was a level figure about 60,000 who were persistently absent from school, but after lockdown, it’s leaped up to 140,000,” she said. “Persistently absent” is a category used by the Department for Education (DfE), which means a child is absent from school for more than 10 percent of the time....