Baroness Hallett, Chair of the UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry, wrote to the Prime Minister last week, requesting the terms of reference be expanded to include the impact on children and young people, mental health and wellbeing, and collaboration between government and the voluntary and community sector
Baroness Hallett, whose four-week consultation on the inquiry received more than 20,000 responses, said ‘the unequal impact of the pandemic was a theme that came through strongly’. She recommended reframing the inquiry to place possible inequalities at ‘its forefront so that investigation into any unequal impacts of the pandemic runs through the whole inquiry’.
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