Northern Ireland's mental health champion gives an assessment of how restrictions affected children.
Prof O'Neill told MLAs that symptoms of mental ill health in children "increased during times when there were restrictions to activities and a reduction in face-to-face teaching in schools"."Young people's mental health was poor before the pandemic and they were more heavily impacted by the pandemic and the restrictions than any other age group, there's now a huge volume of research that shows that," she said.
"Rates were higher in younger children, children with special educational needs or neuro-developmental disorders, and children in deprived areas," she said. Prof O'Neill said the large-scale Co-Space study,, which tracked the mental health of parents, children and young people between March 2020 and July 2021, suggested "behavioural, emotional, and attention difficulties decreased as restrictions eased".Reuters
But she said children with SEN and from low-income households had not "shown the same level of recovery".That had led to some children harming themselves and injuring their parents.
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