Uniserve was paid £1.4bn for Covid contracts that included the supply of £178.5m in never-used equipment.

They were introduced to the VIP-Lane by Tory Peer, Lord Agnew.

Here he is at the Inquiry claiming not to know who Uniserve are, and asking what all the fuss was about:

If you want to understand the arrogance behind this system, it is worth watching Lord Agnew’s previous evidence to the Covid Inquiry.

"It is such bollocks".

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"The Inquiry, in its final module, must be able to look the bereaved in the eyes...to ask the most searching questions."

In the last module examining the impact of Covid on people, the Inquiry plans to call only ONE bereaved witness.

Bereaved families have been sidelined again.

This morning, Covid Justice member Naomi Fulop went on LBC to explain why the Inquiry has been so critical and why we are campaigning for the Hillsborough Law.

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At the Inquiry yesterday, Boris Johnson was asked if the Government prioritised the economy over vulnerable children with Eat Out to Help Out.

He dodged the question, claiming nobody knows what impact social contact had on the spread of Covid.

As shameless as ever.

Today at the Inquiry, Boris Johnson was confronted with overwhelming evidence that his government failed to plan for school closures prior to March 2020.

He refused to accept it, claiming the issue ‘cropped up’.

He’s still incapable of accepting the facts.

Boris Johnson accuses unions of "chuntering" about the safety of opening schools during the pandemic.

But the Government’s failure to close schools turned classrooms into hotbeds of infection.

The results were deadly for children and their families.

Gavin Williamson repeatedly ignored scientific advice, which warned that school closures might be necessary.

Mr Sam Jacobs, for the TUC, asks why.

Williamson responds by accusing the TUC of having a 'natural interest not to see schools delivering education'.

Shameful.

It was obvious schools would need to close during the pandemic, and yet the Department of Education refused to prepare for it.

Asked why, Gavin Williamson says he did not have the freedom to consult on what closures would look like.

He was the Secretary of State for Education.

Did Ministers weigh budget fears against the well-being of vulnerable children?

A DfE email disclosed to the Inquiry warned, “protect [local authorities] from legal action… JR will cripple budgets.”

Vicky Ford, then Children’s Minister, says she does not know if she was aware.

Claire Dorer OBE, giving evidence at the @covidinquiryuk, said she was told children wouldn’t get Long Covid and would bounce back without serious problems.

"There was no persuasive evidence for those claims, and experience has shown they were wrong."

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Children were overlooked during the pandemic, and a generation was left behind.

Prof Steve Turner told the Covid Inquiry he’s still seeing 5- and 6-year-olds not toilet trained, a stark reminder that the impact is still being felt and more must be done to put it right.

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Years of austerity left schools struggling, making the impact of the pandemic even worse for children.

At the Covid Inquiry, education expert Prof Emerita McCluskey warned that preparing for the next pandemic means reversing those cuts.

Five years since the Pandemic started, teachers continue to see the impact in schools.

Principal of Ballynahinch Secondary School, Paul Marks, told the Covid Inquiry that more children now arrive at school unable to read.

A generation is being left behind.

Preparing children and young people for the next pandemic means tackling child poverty and investing in our broken school estate.

Important evidence to the Covid Inquiry from Kevin Courtney on behalf of the TUC.

The pandemic exposed deep inequalities that devastated young disabled people.

Yesterday, the Covid Inquiry heard evidence that disabled people aged 18 to 34 were 30 times more likely to die of Covid than their peers.

These inequalities must be tackled before the next crisis.

Hundreds of children went missing during the pandemic.

Many of them have never been accounted for.

On behalf of Coram, Dr Carol Homden told the inquiry that we have "not even begun to understand what has happened to those children."

A shocking scandal.

Today, the Inquiry heard how the Government ignored the risk of Long Covid to children.

There was a deliberate policy of allowing children to acquire COVID and Long COVID.

Part of an opening statement by Sangeetha Iengar
on behalf of longcovidkids@bsky.social