Research and analysis: Education, schooling and health

This paper aims to summarise the existing evidence of the health and wellbeing benefits of school-age education, including:

• the wider impacts on mental and physical health and wellbeing of being in school

• the observed impacts of the loss of education in the last 18 months

It was produced by the Public Health Advice, Guidance and Expertise (PHAGE) function of Public Health England’s COVID-19 response.

See also:

• the UK Chief Medical Officers’ letter on the universal vaccination of children and young people aged 12 to 15 years against COVID-19

• JCVI statement, September 2021: COVID-19 vaccination of children aged 12 to 15 years

• statement from the UK Chief Medical Officers on schools and childcare reopening

• Impact on school absence from COVID-19 vaccination of healthy 12 to 15 year old children