THE seismic strangeness of the Covid lockdowns might feel like a lifetime ago, but we’re only just starting to get our heads around the aftermath.
Good, bad, mad and weird stuff is happening all around us.
For a start – and most importantly – the kids aren’t alright.
The latest figures on school absences are terrible.
In the last academic year, it’s thought more than a fifth of pupils in England were “persistently absent” – missing at least ten per cent of school sessions.