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By Multimedia Producer Narbeh Minassian
Children are not the face of the pandemic but, as UNICEF puts it, they risk being among its biggest victims.
Their mental wellbeing has not been this fragile on such a widespread level in the UK since perhaps the Second World War.
Drastic changes to education, isolation from friends and family, and confusion over the changes to the world around them could leave a lasting impact, if left without support.
This figure represents an increase since 2017, when the rate was one in nine.
After a bleak 12 months living with Covid-19, Children’s Mental Health week has taken on added significance.
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Failing to extend a £20 lockdown benefit boost will harm the health of millions of people for decades, leading health organisations have told Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a letter.
Introduced last year, the £20-a-week uplift is due to end in April.
Claimants say it has been a lifeline and dread losing it.
Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has hinted the government could be moving closer to extending the rise but says there is no decision yet.
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They are not likely to get seriously ill with Covid and there have been very few deaths. But children are still the victims of the virus - and our response to it - in many other ways.
From increasing rates of mental health problems to concerns about rising levels of abuse and neglect and the potential harm being done to the development of babies, the pandemic is threatening to have a devastating legacy on the nation s young. Closing schools closes lives
The closure of schools is, of course, damaging to children s education. But schools are not just a place for learning. They are places where kids socialise, develop emotionally and, for some, a refuge from troubled family life.
Vulnerable children have dropped off the radar in lockdown as leading Welsh doctor warns we face lasting scars of suffering
Boris Johnson has announced that schools in England will stay shut until at least March 8
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Children are suffering “for the benefit of the community” during lockdown and tough choices need to be made about how long that goes on, a leading Welsh paediatrician has warned.