This report presents key findings from a review of the evidence about the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic and the country’s response to it on the wellbeing and mental health of children and young people in the UK.
In the context of declining wellbeing and mental health among children and young people before the pandemic, we find some evidence that this decline has continued and that some groups have been more affected than others.
The data is complex and it is not easy to disentangle specific pandemic effects. There is a limited amount of pre-pandemic baseline data with which to compare. It is perhaps not surprising, therefore, that studies draw different – and sometimes conflicting – conclusions.
