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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Lindsay Pennington, Dr Hannah MerrickORCiD, Professor Jeremy Parr
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COVID-19 has had serious, negative impacts on children’s health and development. But the impacts have not been felt equally; disabled children and their families have been hit particularly hard. In this paper we summarise UK legislation to limit the spread of the virus and describe how services to disabled children changed as a result. We discuss the long-term deleterious impacts of changes in service provision on the health and wellbeing of disabled children and the parent carers supporting them. We close with lessons learned for resetting services to support the ongoing recovery of children and their families and recommendations for delivering services better in future emergencies to ensure that disabled children’s health and wellbeing is maintained.
Author(s): Pennington L, Merrick H, Allard A, Morris C, Parr JR
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Paediatrics and Child Health
Year: 2024
Volume: 45
Pages: 651-684
Print publication date: 17/06/2024
Online publication date: 24/04/2024
Acceptance date: 11/04/2024
Date deposited: 13/04/2024
ISSN (print): 1751-7222
ISSN (electronic): 1878-206X
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paed.2024.04.002
DOI: 10.1016/j.paed.2024.04.002
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/xy1e-w553
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