The kids aren’t alright: How pandemic policies are still failing young people

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Covid-19 caused chaos for a lot of us. For children and young people it completely disrupted their personal growth, in education and social settings too. Dr. Lauren Andres is a professor of planning and urban transformation at UCL. She’s studying the impact that pandemic policies put in place by governments around the world have had on young people. She joins Ros Taylor in The Bunker to discuss whether we’re dealing with a lost generation. PANEX-Youth is a two-year project, led by Prof. Andres: https://panexyouth.com/home-2/resources/ “The word we keep coming back to is trauma.” – Dr. Lauren Andres. “We need to recognise that they suffered, they were ignored, they were not the priority.” – Dr. Lauren Andres. “A lot of the play and socialisation and play moved online, and this raises a lot of issues.” – Dr. Lauren Andres. “We need to remember that pubs were opened before playgrounds… we need to think about what our priorities were here.” – Dr. Lauren Andres. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.4	terrifying, boring, frustrating, and if you're working in the NHS, overwhelming. But throughout that time, I felt there was a group of people whose feelings and experiences were
1:25.6	pretty much ignored. They didn't have lobbyists to advocate for them. They weren't keeping the economy
1:31.0	going, or at least not in ways we normally think of.
1:34.2	They were sent home from school one day in March and most of them never returned until the
1:38.3	following September.
1:40.0	Then it was in and out of school as classmates caught COVID, another lockdown in January, and the same thing all over again.
1:47.0	So it's great to have Lauren Andres on the bunker.
1:50.0	She's a professor at the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London and has studied how children dealt with a pandemic and how it changed the way they lived.
1:58.0	Welcome to the bunker, Lauren.
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