{"id":3797,"date":"2025-11-27T20:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:24:43","slug":"toxic-no-10-culture-unnecessary-deaths-and-failed-children-key-takeaways-from-the-covid-inquiry-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/11\/27\/toxic-no-10-culture-unnecessary-deaths-and-failed-children-key-takeaways-from-the-covid-inquiry-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic No 10 culture, unnecessary deaths and failed children: Key takeaways from the Covid inquiry report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The inquiry report emphasized that the &#8220;toxic culture&#8221; in Downing Street, coupled with major policy errors like the &#8220;Eat Out to Help Out&#8221; scheme, led to unnecessary deaths and undermined public confidence. The report found that school closures, while saving lives, &#8220;failed&#8221; children by bringing ordinary childhood to a halt and exacerbating existing societal inequalities. It stressed that critical decision-making was plagued by an absence of clear strategy and accountability. The findings serve as a stark warning about the devastating social and economic scars left by the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov 20, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/covid-inquiry-report-latest-lockdown-boris-johnson-b2869217.html\">independent.co<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inquiry report emphasized that the &#8220;toxic culture&#8221; in Downing Street, coupled with major policy errors like the &#8220;Eat Out to Help Out&#8221; scheme, led to unnecessary deaths and undermined public confidence. The report found that school closures, while saving lives, &#8220;failed&#8221; children by bringing ordinary childhood to a halt and exacerbating existing societal inequalities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":3798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}