The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children who become looked after in Derby City

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ID11942008
AuthorsHeather Peet (Derby and Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), UK, corresponding author), Corina Teh (Derby and Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), UK)
Year2020
Volume44
Issue4
Pages426-432
Publication date2020-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdoption & Fostering (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-5759 • E-ISSN: 1740-469X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0308575920978902
OpenAlexW3111746691
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This article compares the needs and background characteristics of children who became looked after by an English local authority between April and July in 2019 and the same three months in 2020, with the aim of identifying any impact of the Covid-19 pandemic which broke out in March 2020 and continued for some months thereafter. It scrutinises the two cohorts, comparing children's age, gender, ethnicity, entry to care with siblings and reasons for admission. Differences attributable to the pandemic were found

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Ethnic group · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political science · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Sociology · Demography · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Virology

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