Next week will see the Inquiry hold its final preliminary hearing for its eighth investigation, ‘Children and Young People’.
The hearing will take place on Wednesday 11 June at the Inquiry’s Hearing Centre, Dorland House, London, W2 6BU (map). It begins at 10.30am.
At preliminary hearings, the Inquiry Chair makes decisions about how investigations will run.
The Inquiry does not hear evidence at these hearings. There will be submissions from the Counsel to the Inquiry and Core Participants to help prepare for the public hearings, where evidence is heard.
Module 8 will examine the impact of the pandemic on children and young people in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It will cover the impact of the pandemic on children and young people across society including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and from a diverse range of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.
More details are included in the provisional scope for Module 8.
The hearing is open to the public and members of the media to attend – information on how to attend is published on our website.
You can watch the preliminary hearing on the Inquiry’s YouTube channel, subject to a three minute delay.
We will publish a transcript of the preliminary hearing on the same day it concludes. A recording of the hearing will be published on the Inquiry’s website at a later date. Alternative formats, including a Welsh language translation, are available on request.
The Inquiry will hear evidence for this investigation in London across four weeks from 29 Monday September 2025 to Thursday 23 October 2025.