Lockdown children: The long-term damage for a generation
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🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Researchers at University College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) this week published a joint study - the first of its kind - looking at the emotional, social and behavioural impacts on kids. Meanwhile, the children's commissioner for England examined NHS data suggesting a big rise in young people being treated for eating disorders.
On the Sky News Daily, Leah Boleto speaks to Sarah Cattan from the IFS, and England's former children's commissioner Anne Longfield about the scale of the problem. Plus, Rhys Barfoot, who works for the charity Family Action helping families across the country with financial and mental health issues, offers advice to parents and young people.
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| 0:56.7 | Legacy to find out how. COVID lockdowns may seem like a distant memory and everyday life, |
| 1:05.7 | well, it's very much getting back to those pre-pandemic norms. But for children, it seems we're only just getting a sense of |
| 1:13.7 | the emotional and behavioural impacts those couple of years have had. And the results of two |
| 1:20.0 | separate studies published revealed some big findings in terms of children's social and emotional |
| 1:27.0 | skills and eating disorders among the under-18s. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm Leah Belletto and this is what we're exploring on the Sky News Daily. |
| 1:36.7 | Now the former Children's Commissioner for England and Longfield, she'll join us in a bit to talk about the potential long-term consequences. |
| 1:45.5 | We really need to take a very practical response here. |
| 1:49.4 | And we'll also hear from a charity that provides emotional support for families. |
| 1:54.5 | But first, let's take a look at that research, suggesting children's social, behavioral and emotional skills worsened during the first year of the |
| 2:03.8 | pandemic. This was a joint study between University College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. |
| 2:11.5 | Sarah Katten is the associate director of the IFS and one of the authors in the study. Talk to me a bit about what you found. |
| 2:19.3 | A year into the pandemic, we surveyed over 6,000 households with school-aged children. |
| 2:25.3 | About half of parents reported their children's socio-emotional development worsened during the first year of the pandemic. |
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