Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak intensified in the United Kingdom (UK) the country has been placed in lockdown, restricting the movement of residents. During this lockdown, 72 percent of young people with underlying health conditions say that face-to-face calls with friends is helpful in coping and self-managing their mental health during this time. On the other hand, 66 percent report that watching or reading the news is unhelpful for their mental health during this time. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

In a survey carried out in March 2020, 51 percent of young people in the United Kingdom (UK) reported that the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting public health measures have made their mental health a bit worse. Furthermore, 32 percent say the impact of the coronavirus crisis has made their mental health much worse, while only seven percent state that their mental health has improved in this time. The number of current coronavirus cases in the UK can be found here. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

National lockdown measures announced by the UK government on March 23, 2020 halted all but "essential businesses" in an effort to reduce the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). According to the results of a recent survey conducted with UK adults, in addition to supermarkets which were considered essential by ** respondents, cornershops/newsagents were regarded as essential businesses by ** percent of those who took part in the survey. Of other retail shops, sports equipment stores and garden centers were largely considered non-essential during the COVID-19 crisis lockdown.

For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Fact and Figures page.

A joint map of resources targeted towards the remedy and recovery during and after the COVID 19 crisis. Information about resources and support services provided by a number of organisations across the city.If you are a provider of services and resources, your information can be added and made public via the form available from here.If you have any questions about this dataset please email smart@leicester.gov.uk or complete the form available from here.

This replication archive contains all scripts and data necessary to replicate the analysis in “Risk and Preferences for Government Healthcare Spending: Evidence from the UK COVID-19 Crisis”.

This newsletter series presents a digest of external research that the Greater London Authority (GLA) is making available for the benefit of external stakeholders in tackling the COVID-19 crisis. The City Intelligence Unit at the GLA started to produce the newsletters in April, initially as an internal product for staff in the organisation and in its functional bodies. As from 2nd June, past and current issues have been made available for download. These summaries have been prepared under challenging circumstances and to short timescales. They are not intended to be comprehensive and exhaustive and the do not represent the full body of evidence on which Mayoral Policies are or will be based. Each briefing will offer short summaries and a deep dive into one or two topics.

In a survey carried out in March 2020, ** percent of respondents from the UK said they believed that social media companies should provide fact-checked content to help people cope with the coronavirus outbreak. Other important roles for social media, according to respondents were screening "fake news", and helping communities to connect with each other.For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Fact and Figures page.

This dataset is about books. It has 1 row and is filtered where the book is NHS reform and health politics in the UK : revolution, counter-revolution and Covid crisis. It features 7 columns including author, publication date, language, and book publisher.

Support to providers that the council has contracts with. In addition to financial support the Council has developed a voluntary workforce scheme to support the care homes using volunteers sourced from both local authority staff and individuals from the voluntary and community sector. Several volunteers are currently working in the homes, with a number subsequently taking up full time employment as care workers. The City Council also operates a 24/7 Integrated Crisis Response Service to facilitate hospital discharges and community step up. If needed, this team can be redirected to support failing care homes as part of the Council’s emergency response service, in addition to the Council’s Reablement Service*(from Fee uplifts in dataset) The Council has paid fee uplifts to cover the additional operating costs of self-funder residents in care homes as well as those clients who are fully or part funded by Adult Social Care

This data was generated as part of an 18 month ESRC funded project,as part of UKRI’s rapid response to COVID-19. The project examines how UK period poverty initiatives mitigated Covid-19 challenges in light of lockdown measures and closure of services, and how they continued to meet the needs of those experiencing period poverty across the UK. Applied social science research methodologies were utilised to collect and analyse data as this project, about the Covid-19 pandemic, was undertaken during an ongoing ‘real world’ pandemic. Data collection was divided into two phases. Phase 1 (October 2020 – February 2021) collected data from period poverty organisations in the UK using semi-structured interviews and an online survey to develop an in-depth understanding of how period poverty organisations were responding to and navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic. Having collected and analysed this data, phase 2 (June – September 2021) used an online survey to collect data from people experiencing period poverty in order to better understand their lived experiences during the pandemic. Our dataset comprises of phase 1 interview transcripts and online survey responses, and phase 2 online survey responses.

Period poverty refers not only to economic hardship with accessing period products, but also to a poverty of education, resources, rights and freedom from stigma for girls and menstruators (1). Since March 2020, and the introduction of lockdown/social distancing measures as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 1 of every 10 girls (aged 14-21) cannot afford period products and instead must use makeshift products (toilet roll, socks/other fabric, newspaper/paper). Nearly a quarter (22%) of those who can afford products struggle to access them, mostly because they cannot find them in the shops, or because their usual source/s is low on products/closed (2).

Community /non-profit initiatives face new challenges related to Covid-19 lockdown measures as they strive to continue to support those experiencing period poverty. Challenges include accessing stocks of period products, distribution of products given lockdown restrictions, availability of staff/volunteer assistance and the emergence of 'new' vulnerable groups. There is an urgent need to capture how initiatives are adapting to challenges, to continue to support the needs of those experiencing period poverty during the pandemic. This data is crucial to informing current practice, shaping policy, developing strategies within the ongoing crisis and any future crises, and ensuring women and girls' voices are centralised.

The project builds upon existing limited knowledge by providing insight into how UK based initiatives and projects are mitigating challenges linked to Covid-19, by examining how they are continuing to meet the needs of those experiencing period poverty and identifying any gaps in provision.

1. Montgomery P., et al., 2016. Menstruation and the Cycle of Poverty. PLoS ONE 11(12): e0166122.
2. Plan International UK, 2020. The State of Girls' Rights in the UK: Early insights into the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on girls. London: Plan International UK

At the end of 2020 the GLA commissioned the University of Essex to analyse the impact on Londoners of the Covid-19 crisis, of the emergency policies put in place since March 2020 and of some counterfactual policy options, including the continuation of the £20 weekly uplift in Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit. The researchers used UKMOD, the UK tax-benefit microsimulation model, to conduct their analysis.

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Press Briefings Corpus is a work in progress to collect and present in a machine readable text dataset of the daily briefings from around the world by government authorities. During the peak of the pandemic, most countries around the world informed their citizens of the status of the pandemic (usually involving an update on the number of infection cases, number of deaths) and other policy-oriented decisions about dealing with the health crisis, such as advice about what to do to reduce the spread of the epidemic.

Usually daily briefings did not occur on a Sunday.

At the moment the dataset includes:

UK/England: Daily Press Briefings by UK Government between 12 March 2020 - 01 June 2020 (70 briefings in total)

Scotland: Daily Press Briefings by Scottish Government between 3 March 2020 - 01 June 2020 (76 briefings in total)

Wales: Daily Press Briefings by Welsh Government between 23 March 2020 - 01 June 2020 (56 briefings in total)

Northern Ireland: Daily Press Briefings by N. Ireland Assembly between 23 March 2020 - 01 June 2020 (56 briefings in total)

World Health Organisation: Press Briefings occuring usually every 2 days between 22 January 2020 - 01 June 2020 (63 briefings in total)

More countries will be added in due course, and we will be keeping this updated to cover the latest daily briefings available.

The corpus is compiled to allow for further automated political discourse analysis (classification).

In the short term, the impact of COVID-19 on consumer financial services will be analogous to the global financial crisis of 2008-09, creating a period of economic paralysis and leaving a massive hole in banks’ balance sheets. Read More

This study is a longitudinal cohort study using the Coronavirus Health Impact Survey (CRISIS) collected at 3 time points: an initial assessment in April 2020 (“April”), a reassessment 3 weeks later (“May”), and a 7-month follow-up in November 2020 (“November”). Online surveys were collected in the United States and the United Kingdom by a survey recruitment service with a final sample of 859 adults and 780 children (collected via parent report).

During a survey conducted in the United Kingdom (UK) on May ***, 2020, almost two-thirds of the respondents said they supported the introduction of a contact-tracing app in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic, with ** percent strongly supporting it. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

This report analyzes the key shifts in consumers' fears about disease, infection, and hygiene during the COVID-19 crisis, and how it affects purchasing patterns. Following the outbreak of COVID-19, there has been an increased focus on hygiene, and the hygiene/health connection has never been more important. The global pandemic has brought the issue of viruses and contagion to the front of the consumer mind, while people are also spending more time at home. Hygiene-related engagement through social media and adaptation of existing processes are important to success within this trend during the pandemic. Read More

Association between adapting work patterns and GHQ stratified by couple mothers and lone mothersa.

Descriptive characteristics of men and womena.

Descriptive statistics, mean(sd).

The main aim of this work is to develop a set of high level macro economic scenarios for the medium-term (to the end of 2022) and for the long-term (to 2030) in order to inform the development of recovery strategies in London, reflecting unprecedented uncertainty on the economic outlook. The primary scenario dimensions include Effectiveness/nature of public health response and Effectiveness/impact of economic support measures. Other scenario dimensions include: Brexit and migration; International economic context; Technology and innovation; Financial climate; Political economy; Economic Geography and GHG emissions. This is an agile project - GLA Economics will continue to track actual data in order to review the assessment of the likelihood of alternative scenario outcomes. Successive updates will be released when they become available for the benefit of external stakeholders in tackling the COVID-19 crisis.