Supporting marginalised children with school problems in the COVID-19 pandemic

Ripudaman Singh Minhas^{1

2

3}, Sloane J Freeman^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Pediatrics, St. Michael's Hospital, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of Developmental Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Ripudaman Singh Minhas et al. BMJ Paediatr Open. 2021.

. 2021 Jan 12;5(1):e000956.

doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000956. eCollection 2021.

Ripudaman Singh Minhas^{1

2

3}, Sloane J Freeman^{1

2}

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Pediatrics, St. Michael's Hospital, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of Developmental Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; child psychiatry; psychology.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: SJF discloses grants and personal fees received from Lysol, Canada, outside the scope of this work.

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