Dame Rachel De Souza
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first heard May 2026
last heard 12 May
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So, interestingly, mental health support came out very, very high.
Yeah, and we do work with advising on this.
And there are tens of thousands of children like that.
You know this child.
I've met many others and talked to them.
And this is not an easy problem.
This is a result of what happened during lockdown.
Yeah.
You know, it was, I think schools were closed.
When you ask that question, what's the worst day of your life?
Probably the worst day of my life for me was closing schools because I knew, I absolutely knew that the tale of that was going to be worse than even I could have imagined, actually.
I don't think any of us had understood the extent of these mental health problems of the children who are staying in their bedrooms.
And I think there are a number of things we can do.
I think sometimes it's about being flexible about settings and trying to help to find out what might motivate and interest that child, where we can get them involved.
to even a day a week in the right sort of setting, doing the thing they want to start getting them back.
I think we should have invested a lot more in that, you know, right after lockdown, because I think now we're years in and we've got, that child has probably been in that situation for a number of years.
And I think we also need to be thinking longer term as well.
Like what about 16 and 18?
What's going to happen, you know, if school has to go partly online and,
And partly trying to step back, what do we then do about college and about adult life?
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