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The collateral damage of lockdowns on children is still emerging

1 August 2023

4:51 PM

1 August 2023

4:51 PM

There has been plenty of evidence published over the past three years of the severe effects on children’s education and wellbeing of closing schools during Covid lockdowns, but a new study by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and University College London (UCL) has a slightly different emphasis – linking children’s social and emotional development with the employment situation of their parents.

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