COVID-19 has impacted many aspects of children’s lives across Scotland and had detrimental effects on their health and well-being. Recreational sport has long been understood as a crucial mechanism for improved health and well-being and positively impacting social cohesion, education, and the economy.
As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, an epidemic of misinformation has been circulating through different communication channels and communities. The objectives of our project are to increase UNICEF’s ability to identify and track rumours and myths around COVID-19 through the U-Report Chatbot, and to develop more sophisticated tools for responding to and debunking rumours.
This research will provide vital national data directly from pupils, to assess impacts on mental health and education. It will contextualise pupils’ experience within data on COVID-19 prevalence, health patterns and trends and against educational achievement outcomes data, to inform interventions and policy making.
The aim of this project is to conduct a desk-based exercise that maps the sources of information (data) - and details about those sources - that are seen to relate to understanding more about the socioeconomic impacts of COVID19 for and on children, and by extension how to tackle them.
This case study explains how the Data for Children Collaborative helped build a multidisciplinary team of experts spanning academia, the private, and public sectors to gain data-driven insights.
An infographic summarizing key findings and recommendations from the final report on the effects of COVID-19 on children's sports in Scotland
Final Report: A robust, evidence-based set of recommendations for Scotland's children’s sports strategy to improve access and support every child's right to sport.
Literature Review that examines the previously limited studies on the sport and physical activity participation of children in Scotland identifies gaps in the literature and examines the data landscape.
This Gallery of Drawings shows engagement from children and young people in Scotland which played a critical role in understanding what sports and physical activity mean to them and gaining insight into their individual experiences.
Read the final report from our project examining the impacts of isolation on young people’s mental health.
An Impact Statement for our project examining how isolation, school closure and exam cancellation caused by Covid-19 affected the mental health of young people.
An evidence review based on our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children.
A range of data catalogue outputs from our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children.
An Impact Statement for our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children.
A summary of the outputs of our webinar discussion for our project addressing the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children in Scotland.
