PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus: Children (16 June 2021)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on children's physical and mental wellbeing.
Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)
Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)
Answer
Public Health England’s (PHE) ‘Wider Impacts of COVID-19 on Health’ tool is monitoring the wider impacts of the pandemic on population health and is available at the following link:
https://analytics.phe.gov.uk/apps/covid-19-indirect-effects/
PHE has worked with colleagues across Government, to track impacts on mental health and wellbeing using data and research from a wide range of sources. The ’COVID-19: mental health and wellbeing surveillance’ report, which also looks at the effects on children and young people, is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveillance-report
Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
22 June 2021
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