On Monday afternoon, the Oslo City Council presented the most stringent measures to date in the pandemic.
Many of the measures were directly aimed at children and young people.
Children’s Ombudsman Inga Bejer Engh tells Dagbladet that it is now absolutely essential for all municipalities with strict measures to have a plan for how to deal with the consequences these measures now have for children and young people.
– The plan must first be that those who need a physical school offer must get it. Among others, those in vulnerable life situations and those who need special education or special language training, says Engh.
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City councilor for upbringing and education in Oslo, Inga Marte Thorkildsen, emphasized at the press conference of the city council on Monday afternoon that everyone in these groups should go.
– Must have high quality
Many children and young people will now go to home school until Easter.
Tightens into Viken until after Easter
– You must have a high quality of digital teaching, and good contact between teachers and students. We have seen over the last year that the quality of digital teaching has varied. You have to have good teaching, Engh emphasizes.
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She also says that it is absolutely crucial that the support system in schools must now be proactive.
– The support system in schools, whether it is health nurses, environmental workers, social workers or others, must contact the students, especially those who are concerned. You can not wait until the students get in touch, says Engh.
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Lasts the shortest possible time
– It is also important for the municipalities that are now introducing such strict measures, that they last as short a time as possible, and that other municipalities that are now to make similar assessments, assess the need for intervention measures against the negative consequences of infection control measures for children and young people. emphasizes the Ombudsman for Children.
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She says that they now have a better overview of the consequences of the measures than they had when they closed down in March 2020.
– These measures have very negative consequences for children. This weighting of measures against consequences will be different now than in March. In March, one could only sense the negative consequences of the measures, but now we know what they actually are, she says.
Different rules districts
Nakstad: – Necessary and proportionate measures
Engh says that she understands that the city council now considers it necessary to introduce different measures in different parts of the city.
– There are some challenges in big cities where there are many people, and that you then have to consider various measures locally, but it is clear that it is terribly demanding, says children’s ombud Engh.
– Then it is extra important that you put in good measures to compensate for the negative effects in the parts of the city that are extra hard hit, Engh says.
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