Last week, Australia’s children’s commissioner, Anne Hollonds, spoke passionately about the myriad impacts children and young people had endured due to Covid lockdowns and school closures. She outlined, for example, the mental health impacts like self-harm and depression and highlighted those children living with poverty and disadvantage had suffered the most.
‘There is a concern about potentially a lost generation of children, who at a very critical stage of their development didn’t get the support they needed,’ she said.
