Author(s)
Mort, M.; Walker, M.; Williams, A.L.; Bingley, A.; Howells, V.
Children, young people and flooding: Recovery and resilience
26 September 2016
Source
Save the Children International
Lancaster University
This collaboration between Lancaster University and Save the Children researched children and young people’s experiences of the UK winter 2013/14 floods. The authors used creative arts methods to work with flood-affected children and communicate their ideas to policy. Children, in fact are often ignored in disaster-related planning and policy development.
The publication outlines the following recommendations and policy implications in the following issues (p. 27):
- Recovery, health and wellbeing:
- Recognise that floods cause poverty. Displaced families need help with the extra cost of food, washing clothes and transport.
- Set up groups in schools for children who have been affected by floods, so they can talk and get support.
- Resilience and flood preparedness:
- Provide more grants to help make homes more resilient and help with bureaucratic red tape.
- Support the development of community flood fund initiatives - to help people who are flooded, or may be in the future.
- Flood education:
- Flood education should be given in all schools, from Reception level onwards.
- Teachers need training about floods, and how they affect children and their education.
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Hazards
Flood
Themes
Children and Youth
Disaster risk management
Education and school safety
Health and health facilities
Recovery
Recovery planning
Country and region
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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