LCK In The News

Dorset-based charity Long Covid Kids (LCK) was set up to offer help and guidance to families across the UK. Children who have been helped by the organisation delivered a new support guide and letters for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to read.

"A nine-year-old Somerset girl who had to learn to walk again after developing "long Covid" has helped deliver a petition to Downing Street"

Many thousands of children now have Long Covid and have been suffering debilitating symptoms for weeks, months, even years.
‘Life is unrecognisable to how it was before for Jasmin,’ Dr Binita Kane tells Metro.co.uk. ‘Having a sick child becomes a full-time job,’ she says. 'And this is something we’re not talking about'

5 News has been investigating long covid in children - headaches, anxiety, extreme tiredness, worse. It can be extremely debilitating - and the effect on their development, and their education, can be profound.
"I don't want to be the ill kid... I want to be like how I was"

'Now a prominent voice for children suffering from long covid, Anna’s mother Helen Goss is campaigning to ensure good air quality in schools to reduce the risk of transmission among pupils'