Covid-19 and the subsequent worldwide lockdowns have had a major impact on families and school education. The lockdowns have highlighted and exacerbated the disadvantages experienced by those children who suffer from child poverty. This article focuses on food insecurity and the digital divide, or digital exclusion, and argues that these have emerged as very pressing issues during lockdowns for children suffering from child poverty. The article provides an outline of the response of the Catholic Church and Catholic schools, primarily in the United Kingdom. There have been some concerted efforts to address food insecurity by providing food and food vouchers for children and vulnerable families. It has proved more problematic to address digital exclusion and the article argues that for those children who experience digital exclusion, this can effectively mean exclusion from the religious education, religious life, community and the pastoral and spiritual support that is normally offered by the Catholic school.

Covid-19及其随后的全球封锁对家庭和学校教育产生了重大影响。封锁突出并加剧了那些遭受儿童贫困的儿童的不利处境。本文关注的是粮食不安全和数字鸿沟，即数字排斥，并指出，在锁定儿童贫困儿童的过程中，这些已成为非常紧迫的问题。本文概述了主要在英国的天主教会和天主教学校的反应。为提供粮食和食品券给儿童和弱势家庭，已经采取了一些一致的努力来解决粮食不安全问题。事实证明，解决数字排斥问题比较棘手，文章认为，对于那些经历数字排斥的孩子，