Cardiff Lockdown Covid Safety Guide!

Following the facilitating of limitations on outside occasions it is presently conceivable to safely convey the occasion with a number of additional measures set up to secure the wellbeing and wellbeing of participants, occasion staff, volunteers and the more extensive public.

This archive subtleties each of the actions that will be set up to ensure your wellbeing and forestall the spread of Coronavirus. Participants will be expected to assume individual liability to assist with guarding everybody.

We will stay in customary contact with members, volunteers and event staff in the development to the occasion to share more subtleties on the wellbeing andsafety measures that will be set up and to convey any updates should any limitations be reimposed.

With sprinters and coordinators cooperating and in accordance with Welsh Government rules, we will securely convey occasions inside a detailed risk-appraisal system.

Cardiff Lockdown

Extra Space

We will make extra space all through the event scene and have altogether expanded the size of our beginning pens to permit you to create space among yourself as well as other people as you assemble before the beginning of the race.

Occasion Venue

Our occasion town, start line, finish line, pen entry points and drink stations have been overhauled to avoid blockage or squeeze focuses.

Face Coverings during Cardiff Lockdown

Our staff, providers and occasion authorities will wear face covers when near others to help keep themselves and you safe (except if absolved).

Cleanliness and Cleaning

A devoted purging group will consistently clean touch focuses all through the occasion site including toilets, entryway handles, obstructions, drink stations andpen passage focuses.

We need your assistance to guarantee a protected encounter for everyone. A level of personal obligation will be anticipated from those going to the occasion.

Wellbeing

You ought to possibly join in case you are sure thatyou don't represent a danger to the strength of others. You should assume individual liability by taking alateral stream test 24 hours before the occasion and not attend in the event that you show any indications of COVID-19.

Hands

You should utilize the hand sanitiser gave at points around the occasion site.

Face

We urge you to wear a face covering in all crowded regions to ensure yourself and others. These can be taken out while running.

Space

You ought to be conscious of everyone around you and keep space among yourself as well as other people. We haveincreased space all through the occasion and askthat you adhere to your distributed beginning pen.

We're working close by some of our partners to convey a COVID secure occasion in accordance with Welsh Government guidelines.With your assistance, we can guarantee a protected and charming occasion experience foreverybody. We'll stay in contact in the development to the occasion to share moredetails on what race day will resemble and the actions you can expect tosee set up for the duration of the day.

Cardiff Lockdown Background

The mental health consequences of school closure, social isolation, increased financial and emotional stress, and greater exposure to family conflicts are likely to be pronounced for primary school children who are known to be vulnerable. Data from prior to the pandemic are needed to provide robust assessments of the impact of COVID‐19 on vulnerable children.

Method

The present study capitalises on an ongoing study of primary school children (4–8 years) identified as ‘at‐risk’ for mental health problems by teachers.
We collected mental health and socio‐economic data prior to the pandemic and re‐assessed this cohort (n = 142) via researcher‐led video calls during the pandemic to evaluate the social and emotional impacts of COVID‐19 for these families.

Results

Mental health problems, particularly anxiety, increased significantly in these children. Parental mental health difficulties (anxiety and depression) were also prevalent. There were higher reports of financial stress during lockdown amongst low‐income families previously identified as living in poverty, prior to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Financial strain was found to indirectly predict increases in child mental
health problems through parental mental health.

Cardiff Lockdown Conclusion

These findings show that the pandemic exacerbated mental health problems in already vulnerable children. These negative outcomes were explained by financial stress (e.g., lost employment, loss of income and inability to pay bills), which was negatively linked to parental mental health.

There is an urgent need to assess and understand the psychological and social impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and associated lock-
down on primary school children, especially those who are already known to be at risk of significant emotional and behavioural prob-
lems (Jefsen et al., 2020; Racine et al., 2020). There is also a lack of knowledge about how best to support high‐risk families during and
after lockdown(s). It is well known that even in very high‐risk groups there is substantial heterogeneity in the way that individuals cope
with stress and trauma; this applies to children at high familial risk of developing mental health problems and to children impacted by other
health pandemics (Collishaw, Hammerton, et al., 2016; Collishaw, Gardner, et al., 2016). Some children fare much better than expected.

Cardiff Lockdown reasons

The reasons for this involve multiple protective factors involving child, family and community, and many of these factors are likely to
be modifiable, examples being children's coping skills, measures to alleviate poverty and food insecurity (Ridley et al., 2020), and
broader community factors, including educational support and engagement from schools (Collishaw, Hammerton, et al., 2016; Collishaw, Gardner, et al., 2016).

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In the context of COVID‐19, a range of advice for parents already exists,1 but what is needed now is robust assessment of the
child and family‐related factors that are most strongly associated with better or worse outcomes. Many children and families have seen
changes in their everyday lives, including changes in education pro-vision, employment, physical activity and social contact. With the
pandemic impacting families financially, and with many parents having to balance work commitments with managing their children at
home (also affecting daily routines, such as eating and sleeping) while still carrying out their child's schooling commitments, it is clear that
families have been exposed to significant psychological and social stress that may well have affected family functioning (Giallo et al., 2014). Understanding the immediate psychological and social consequences for children, especially those already at risk of signif-
icant emotional and behavioural problems, and their families, is essential for rapid development of policies and interventions to
mitigate the mental health problems and provide tailored support for vulnerable groups of children during and after the pandemic.

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Understanding how COVID‐19 and the associated lockdown have affected children and their families requires comprehensive baseline
data that predate the pandemic and can be used to identify modifiable factors that are associated with more resilient outcomes (Holmes
et al., 2020). This is even more crucial for children with emerging mental health problems and families for whom there is additional
legitimate concern regarding financial stress resulting from the lockdown2 and likely disconnection from societal protective structures
(including school and health/social care services), as well as the possibility of being affected by increased exposure to domestic violence,
parental mental health problems and change of social networks. Our first objective was to generate a detailed understanding of the specific mentalhealthneedsof childrenwith emergingmentalhealthproblems and the economic profiles of their families, including whether and how these had changed as a result of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Our second objective was to identify modifiable child and family‐related factors (e.g., parental mental health and financial resources) that contribute to risk and resilience and could be targeted for intervention. To do so, we examined the ways in which family and social‐level factors were associated with changes in child mental health. We report the initial results concerning the effects of the first UK lockdown period on child and family well‐being and coping. We particularly focus on financial circumstances and on child and parental mental health.