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You-COPE: Youth COVID-19 Experience Survey

  • Writer: PMHA
    PMHA
  • Jun 7, 2020
  • 1 min read

Request from Dr Lee Hudson: Clinical Associate Professor, UCL GOSH Institute of Child Health, London

“My colleagues and I (including the President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) are conducting an online study looking at how COVID-19 is affecting the lives, mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 16-24. It’s an academic study, not commercial and results will be used for academic research only. It is a joint project between UCL and Imperial College in London, but is covering the whole of the UK.

  1. This is going to be really important to understand what the needs are now and moving forward for policy and healthcare

  2. They are a particularly vulnerable group as they tend to fall between the cracks in terms of health provision but also having a voice

Please share this survey with young people aged between 16 and 24 …

To share the survey – copy the below link into an email:

For more information about the survey, click on the UCL logo below:

 
 

Lockdown learning and play

  • Writer: PMHA
    PMHA
  • Jun 5, 2020
  • 1 min read

Opportunities for unstructured play in the early years are really important, says Ramchandani

A while back, The Guardian published this interesting article discussing learning at home through play in the context of the Coronavirus crisis…

“Learning at home does not have to look like school and probably shouldn’t, says Britain’s first play professor. With coronavirus closures offering opportunities for home learning, and many parents more on hand during the lockdown, play can come into its own, says Paul Ramchandani, Lego professor of play at the University of Cambridge… https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/apr/21/dont-turn-your-home-into-school-lego-prof-of-play-on-lockdown-learning

 
 

Where is the voice of the child in weighing the cost of this pandemic?

  • Writer: PMHA
    PMHA
  • Jun 3, 2020
  • 1 min read

Frontline paediatricians have written to the editor of the British Medical Journal, advocating for the rights and safeguarding of children 

“We call upon Government to move quickly and decisively to try and repair the harm suffered by young, vulnerable people during this pandemic. Failure to do so will come at a price too high.”

To read the full text of the letter, click below:

 
 
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