According to the research there is “some evidence to suggest that the restrictions in early 2021 may have had a more negative impact than the first set of restrictions”, which included the initial period of lockdown from March to June 2020 and a second lockdown in November 2020.
It emerged that by the summer of 2021 “there was some suggestion of an improvement in children’s mental health and wellbeing relative to earlier in the year”, according to the analysis published by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).
In contrast the first lockdown saw some improvement in mental health among young people who had pre-existing poorer mental wellbeing.
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