Resources on societal change during COVID-19

We collected some information around different areas affecting families:

Child poverty:

• OECD Brief on how to combat the effects of COVID-19 on children https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/view/?ref=132_132643-m91j2scsyh&title=Combatting-COVID-19-s-effect-on-children
• The Council of Europe’s dedicated webpage contains some tips and a compilation of resources for talking to children about the pandemic: https://www.coe.int/en/web/children/covid-19

Demographic change:

• Our partner Population Europe has experts investigating and addressing this issue. Demography can help us understand how this pandemic has spread and has had a disproportionate effect on certain age groups, as well as why its spread affects everyone. Check here: https://population-europe.eu/news/demography-coronavirus
• Written Question from the EP interest group on demographic change and solidarity between generations to the European Commission on the upcoming paper on demographic change and the need for urgent action https://twitter.com/IntergroupAge/status/1255141624583094274

Education:

• Education: From disruption to recovery: https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse
• World Bank Education COVID-19 School Closures Map: https://www.worldbank.org/en/data/interactive/2020/03/24/world-bank-education-and-covid-19
• Survey: An international research project exploring educators online teaching during the Covid-19 crisis: https://www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/research/projects/trio/index.html
• ETwinning collection of  activities and initiatives which have deployed during the lockdown by their network: https://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/newsroom/highlights/etwinning-friends–support-in.htm

Social policy

• OECD brief on supporting people and companies to deal with the COVID-19 virus: Options for an immediate employment and social-policy response https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/supporting-people-and-companies-to-deal-with-the-covid-19-virus-options-for-an-immediate-employment-and-social-policy-response/
• EPSCO Council videoconference on 5th May on negative consequences of the crisis on the labour markets and the economy https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/epsco/2020/05/05/
• On 9 April 2020, Eurofound launched an e-survey, Living, working and COVID-19, to capture the most immediate changes during the pandemic and their impact, with the aim of helping to shape the response to this crisis. The first results are in. https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/data/covid-19

Inequality

• Gender and the economy launched a COVID-19 & Inequality explainer which offers further insight into how the impact is amplified for Indigenous, racialized, low-income, LGBTQ+ and other vulnerable groups. https://www.gendereconomy.org/covid-19-and-inequality/