Nursery World - Children in low-income families suffered more emotional problems during lockdown

Children from low-income households demonstrated heightened mental health difficulties throughout lockdown, further findings from a study tracking four- to 16-year-olds during the pandemic has revealed.

The most recent report from the Co-SPACE (COVID-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents and Children in Epidemics) study led by the University of Oxford highlights that children in low -income families were impacted by the Covid-19 crisis more than those from higher-income families:

Andy Bell, deputy chief executive of the Centre for Mental Health, said, ‘The pandemic and the lockdown have already had a significant impact on children’s mental health across the country. Every family and every child’s experiences are unique to them, but this and other research points to a worrying rise in distress overall, and a chasm between the most and the least deprived children and families.

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