Anne Longfield said that the catch-up programme already outlined by the government now needed to be ârocket boostedâ in light of the new round of school closures. She also called for a mental health counsellor to be placed in every school, an increase in the number of youth workers and an extension of the troubled families programme as she warned of the wider health impacts from the pandemic on children . In an interview with the Observer, she said there was a danger that âin five yearsâ time, we look back at this generation of kids and we see children who have fallen from view during this period. It would be a tragedyâ.