cancelled GCSEs and one cancelled Christmas. Millions of missed swimming lessons, and a drastic increase in time spent online.
Rarely has the experience of being a child or teenager in Britain changed so much, so fast as it did in the months that followed the first lockdown of March 2020.
While a new academic year has just begun in relatively traditional fashion, the routines, staging posts, celebrations, and even messy mistakes that we once considered predictable parts of growing up, now seem fragile and moveable.Nor have we been short of statistics attesting to the profound effect of the pandemic on young people.