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This edition's features include how to stay safe and supported during the COVID-19 pandemic, one member's experience of working in Sierra Leone and screen time for children and young people. Plus a big thank you to trainees and educational supervisors with our annual PAFTAs!

There are many unanswered questions about children and COVID-19, including when and how we reopen schools, but, argues Russell in this week's weekly address to members, we must go back to the science.

How do we prepare for some type of return to normal of our services? In this week's blog for members, Russell looks at the 'three Rs' - how to reset, restore and recover child health services - and how we're working together to combine evidence, expertise and best practice to produce information for...

As we move to the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, we'll be looking at how we reset, restore and recover paediatric services, and considering what changes and innovations from the past weeks we can take into the future. Russell addresses members in this week's blog.

In this week's blog, Russell remembers the members who have recently died. He also introduces a new case definition for what may be a rare, COVID-related illness in children and our next live Q&A on paediatric training.

Around one in three children are growing up in areas of the UK with unsafe levels of air pollution. This is not only damaging for their health, but a fundamental threat to their right to grow up in a clean, healthy environment.

After months of speculation, campaigning and voting, we now have the result of the Labour leadership contest in Wales. The top job has gone to a man who may not be a household name for RCPCH members so Gethin Matthews-Jones, RCPCH External Affairs Manager for Wales, blogs to answer two questions: wh...