Barnardo's Scotland - A 'new normal': a snapshot report on the needs of children and young people since full-time return to education in August 2021

We are now 20 months into the Covid 19 pandemic. During this time, children and young people have faced huge disruption to their education as the result of national lockdowns and self-isolation rules.

Barnardo’s work in over 400 schools across Scotland, and, as schools returned in August, we wanted to better understand the challenges affecting young people in the aftermath of school closures in order to inform how we best respond to their emerging needs as we transition to a new phase of the pandemic.