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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 263098" data-attributes="member: 33">The suicide of a 15 year old boy is tragic and shouldn&#039;t have been allowed to happen. However, I don&#039;t blame the lockdown in itself for the mental health issues that so many young people are facing. I blame the abject failure of the government to deal with the consequences of the lockdown they imposed. The government should have done more to enable schools to operate safely far sooner so children and young people weren&#039;t isolated at home for so long. They should have hired counsellors and mental health professionals to have regular contact with all children when they were off school so and mental health issues could have been identified earlier. They should now be employing mental health nurses for every school to help any children who are suffering.&nbsp; They could have hired empty offices and conference facilities to use as classrooms so children could return to face to face teaching in a socially distanced environment. They should have installed screens in schools and improved classroom ventilation so schools could get back into operation faster. Instead the Tories chose to abandoned the needs of children. I will always remember Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, the 13 year old Brixton boy with no underlying health conditions who was one of the early victims of Covid-19. He died in hospital, in pain, scared and alone. After he died, his family weren&#039;t allowed to attend his funeral. Lockdowns are necessary to prevent there from being other children and young people like Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, or 10 year old Fehzan Jamil from Bradford or the 13 day old baby and many other children and young people all of who died from Covid-19. It&#039;s possible to deal with both controlling the spread of the Covid-19 virus and the mental health issues that are a consequence of lockdown, it shouldn&#039;t be an either or.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 263098, member: 33"] The suicide of a 15 year old boy is tragic and shouldn't have been allowed to happen. However, I don't blame the lockdown in itself for the mental health issues that so many young people are facing. I blame the abject failure of the government to deal with the consequences of the lockdown they imposed. The government should have done more to enable schools to operate safely far sooner so children and young people weren't isolated at home for so long. They should have hired counsellors and mental health professionals to have regular contact with all children when they were off school so and mental health issues could have been identified earlier. They should now be employing mental health nurses for every school to help any children who are suffering. They could have hired empty offices and conference facilities to use as classrooms so children could return to face to face teaching in a socially distanced environment. They should have installed screens in schools and improved classroom ventilation so schools could get back into operation faster. Instead the Tories chose to abandoned the needs of children. I will always remember Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, the 13 year old Brixton boy with no underlying health conditions who was one of the early victims of Covid-19. He died in hospital, in pain, scared and alone. After he died, his family weren't allowed to attend his funeral. Lockdowns are necessary to prevent there from being other children and young people like Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, or 10 year old Fehzan Jamil from Bradford or the 13 day old baby and many other children and young people all of who died from Covid-19. It's possible to deal with both controlling the spread of the Covid-19 virus and the mental health issues that are a consequence of lockdown, it shouldn't be an either or. [/QUOTE]

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