Pandemic policies overlooked long-term needs of children, finds report

UK findings

Recommendations

• The need to keep children and young people at the center of pandemic preparedness efforts.
• More priority and attention given to the hidden voices and experiences of young people, and particularly those from monetary poor households.
• Greater recognition that schools play an important, central role as life and care hubs.
• Greater recognition of play and leisure as rights that are fundamental to children and young people’s development.
• More structured and systemic responses to multiple dimensions of risk from local and national responses are recommended based on a rigorous assessment of what worked and failed during the pandemic.

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