counting the cost of the covid pandemic, this report says more children are struggling with their mental health, up from one in nine to one in six, according to data. but the number in england referred to nhs mental health services by the likes of gps and teachers fell sharply at the start of covid 19. children around the country really have suffered with this isolation and being away from school. so i think it is a very, very important issue. although, overall referrals have dropped, what you can see is, it was during lockdown that referrals really dropped and then they sharply went up. the commissioner s report says that between 2020 and 2021, around 497,000 children were referred, compared to 539,000 the year before. it also says only around a third of children with a probable mental health disorder are able to access treatment. for those accepted into children s mental health treatment services, average waiting times fell from 43
they have damaged the reputation of the vaccine in a way that echoes throughout the rest of the world. then there is the issue of vaccine equity. six in ten of the world s population have received at least one dose of a covid vaccine. but across africa, just one in 20 people are double jabbed. we are going to be deep into 2022 before we have this pandemic under control in a best case scenario. because that is how long it is going to take to get vaccines rolled out equitably around the world. billions of vaccine doses have now been pledged for low income countries. but the logistics of getting them to those who need them is a major problem. nigeria destroyed one million astrazeneca doses in december, which had a shelf life ofjust a few weeks too little time to use them. the scientist who created the jab wants vaccine production scaled up
it s all about exam practice. the next few weeks will be serious revision for mocks, and for the first time in three years, this summer, they are expected to sit external exams. i had to be off with covid. i didn t get to sit my full mock exams, so i wasn t, like, mentally fully prepared. nicole is doing a levels and wants to go to university. she s worried about exams because of the ongoing disruption. there s a lot of teachers off in this school due to, like, covid reasons, so they re finding it quite difficult for us to get supply for everyone. still quite nervous. yeah. here, they welcome the return of exams. for the past two years, gcses and a levels have been awarded using teacher assessed grades. last year was difficult for teachers, as well. there was a huge amount of work to ensure that students were given given the grades that were fair. huge amounts of work from students and teachers in terms of gathering that evidence to begin with.
the government says it recognises the impact the pandemic s had on people and that was committing extra money to help. anisa kadri reports. counting the cost of the covid pandemic this report says more children are struggling with their mental health, up from one in nine to one in six, according to data. but the number in england referred to nhs mental health services by the likes of gps and teachers fell sharply at the start of covid 19. children around the country really have suffered with this isolation and being away from school, so i think it s a very, very important issue. although, overall, referrals have dropped, what you can see is it was during lockdown that referrals really dropped, and then they sharply went up. the commissioner s report says that between 2020 and 2021, around 497,000 children were referred, compared to 539,000 the year before. it also says only around a third of children with a probable mental health disorder are able to access treatment.
with exams scrapped due to covid, teachers were told to award a level and gcse results by assessment, but analysis by the sunday times suggested some schools gamed the arrangements by massively increasing the rate of top grades awarded to their pupils. there have been calls for an inquiry and sanctions. joining me now is dr gill wyness from the institute of education at ucl. does it seem to you that by the ten independent schools have gamed the system? t independent schools have gamed the s stem? ~ , , independent schools have gamed the s stem? ~ , , ., , system? i think the results of this anal sis is system? i think the results of this analysis is not system? i think the results of this analysis is not particularly - analysis is not particularly surprising. that private and independent schools. they could base at the criteria on coursework, tests, etc so they were open to interpretation by different teachers and so i think it is not particularly surprising that we see some leve