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Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the NEU teaching union, said the evidence “confirms what teachers and parents had always suspected - that Gavin Williamson prioritised point scoring over serious engagement with the representatives of hundreds of thousands of education workers about the best way of suppressing the spread of Covid-19 in schools”.

The LCK team, led by Health Lead Kirsty Stanley, were involved in the production of this leaflet by the WHO. This leaflet provides advice and support for young people aged 12 years and older who are experiencing symptoms of post COVID-19 condition, commonly known as long COVID. It aims to help you to understand and manage your condition and ask for help and support.

This paper is Long Covid Kids Scotland's written submission to the Scottish Covid-19 inquiry.
It outlines the key points that the charity leads have put to the enquiry to hear and to investigate.
"Long Covid Kids is a grass-roots organisation formed by individuals who have borne the burden of... and who have become disillusioned and frustrated by the slow, inadequate and reprehensible response by government - national and local - to the long term illness caused by Covid-19".
"Why was it [Paediatric Long Covid] not foreseen by our Scottish elected representatives and our Scottish health and education officials, exercising their responsibilities for the care, wellbeing and education of the children, and young people of Scotland?

In a special edition of our weekly news show, FYI Investigates: Kids with long COVID. An estimated 117,000 children across the UK are struggling to shake off coronavirus symptoms weeks, even months, after falling ill with the virus. Many are struggling to get the medical help that they need and some have missed out on school for more than a year. In this special episode, the kids with long COVID tell their story.

Speaking at the Covid inquiry on Friday, long Covid experts Chris Brightling and Rachael Evans said for those working in the area of post-viral diseases, it was obvious it could become a “potential problem”.
Brightling, a professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Leicester, said: “It was foreseeable to us before the pandemic because we were aware of what had happened with SARS-CoV-1 and it was even more apparent early on in the pandemic that this could be a potential problem.”
Ondine Sherwood, founder of Long Covid SOS told the inquiry “There was no public messaging about long Covid at all. So not only were people at risk of getting and developing long Covid, they didn't know about the risk. Long Covid groups protested outside the hearing centre in London today, holding signs reading: “Believe me” and: “Help me.”