The findings confound predictions in some quarters that disadvantaged children, who had worse mental health to start with, would be hardest hit. But even if child mental health has become more equal, it worsened, overall, following the pandemic, emphasise the researchers. There is some evidence that declines in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been greatest among younger people, say the researchers, but the impact on inequalities in child mental health isn't clear. To explore this further, they analysed 16,361 parental observations of 9272 children in the nationally representative Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study.

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