The Observer view on the government's betrayal of young people | Observer editorial

The A-level results fiasco is the latest way in which a generation is having the future ruined by incompetence and neglect

It is today’s children and young people who will suffer the worst long-term consequences of this pandemic on their lifelong earnings, job prospects and mental health. Yet they have consistently been consigned to the bottom of the priority heap.

From its botched reopening of schools, to its abject failure to provide structured activities over the summer for children who have missed out on three months of school, to its lack of solutions for young people starting university in a time of social distancing or trying to get a first job in a hostile labour market, this is a government that has consistently shown a lack of care, creativity and willingness to invest in minimising the scars this pandemic will leave on a generation.

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