Covid19 Youth Survey

Covid19 youth survey

The Covid19 Youth Survey was created in partnership with the Redbridge Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The survey wanted to find out the key concerns amongst children and young people across each of the CCG areas (Redbridge, Havering and Barking and Dagenham). Redbridge had the best response rate with more than 900 young people responding (more than two thirds of the responses across the three boroughs). Our Child Friendly Redbridge Ambassadors helped draft the questions in the survey and pushed and promoted the survey amongst their friends and in their schools.

The findings were shared across different partners and service areas to help them improve their services to young people. The key findings of the survey were:

• Mental health - young people with existing mental health issues were feeling worse and others were experiencing mental health issues for the first time
• School work - young people were worried about falling behind, not being able to study at home and their exams. This was a huge cause of mental health issues, such as anxiety and stress
• Catching the virus - many young people felt people of all ages were not taking social distancing and lockdown seriously enough and were worried about transmission