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The social implications of Covid-19 on Communities

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4 the advert is Black. Barely three months before, Ofcom received over 24,500 complaints following the performance by dance troupe Diversity on the popular television show Britains Got Talent for their dance inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Complaints focused on the `politicisation of the dance movement and accused the show of playing to `woke audiences. Neither regulator found grounds to investigate. The above two epithets serve to illustrate the context into which this rapid review of the evidence on the Social Implications of Covid-19 on communities is presented. A context where a surge in mutual aid led by grassroots community groups from all ethnic backgrounds and parts of the UK may have placed a `sticking plaster over the chasm revealed in our economic and welfare systems; but where the deep divisions in our sense of belonging and our experience of society and of the pandemic have simultaneously laid raw the severity of structural racism and social divisions along cultural, class and economic lines in UK society. Alongside this, the sudden shift in restrictions and the cancellation of Christmas plans for many in response to the new variant of Covid-19, looks to further compromise trust in government and catalyse a further risk to mental health and loneliness as we move into an already precipitous new year. Whilst many were quick to hail 2020 as the uprising of a positive groundswell of community in response to the Covid-19 crisis, the question of `whose community and `who belongs in it is ever more contested, conflicted and impassioned in the local and virtual places which people have been confined to during the ten months of the Coronavirus pandemic - and looks to continue to be as we enter the next, increasingly complex, phases.

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13 (Larson, 2013). The Brexit process - fuelled by political debate about which parts of the UK had `lost out or been `left behind during the decades of EU membership, and which had prospered, and a rising nationalist or anti-internationalist, anti-immigrant sentiment - had made the existence of shared beliefs about the future of the UK polarising and highly fragmented. This was also felt in the relationships between the UKs devolved nations: debates on Scottish Independence; the risk of undoing of the peace process in Northern Ireland due to Brexit; and even a nascent independence movement in Wales all indicated a nation pulling in different directions. Simultaneously, Britain was also having to confront rising grassroots-led challenges to the countrys colonial past and deeply discriminatory relationship with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, prompted by the Windrush Scandal and the revelations of the extent of the human and rights-based impact of the Conservative governments `hostile environment policy. Finally, the divide between generations - how they voted, organised, identified with others, and sought voice and change � was rising due to what young people saw as a bleak future economically, socially and environmentally; prompted by the mismanagement of climate and economy and the subsequent soaring of inequality permitted, if not caused, by previous generations. The legacy of all these dynamics were perpetuating and simmering within political, social and local identity debates in 2019, before the pandemic hit.

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36 2019). This was particularly acute in the areas of most basic essentials such as food charity (Power, Doherty et al, May 2020); the pandemic has challenged the already problematic discourse of `emergency food support which, pre-pandemic, had in fact become a weekly staple service for hundreds of thousands of families. This raises grave questions in the context of a possible no-deal Brexit about how the increased demand for food banks due to the rise in `newly hungry and `newly poor will be met, and by what service or system of support. Where funding and policy is tasked with `levelling up or `recovery � it needs to take into account a greater, and hyper-localised, range of indicators in terms of assessing what support is needed. Many are calling for the focus of investment into recovery to be on `socially excluded places (Phillipson et al, 2020) and to pay attention to modelling of regional resilience (Sensier & Uyarra, 2020) in order to target what may be limited resources towards the most vulnerable and least able to independently `bounce back. Furthermore, in considering how certain � radical - ways of working in welfare and social care due to emergency measures during Coronavirus have created positive opportunities, many are now calling for a transformative shift in health and social care provision. Out of need, the pandemic enabled greater collaboration and more targeted welfare provision across the whole care pathway in many parts of the UK. It is suggested that some of the `local freedoms to implement change, and new `integrated services and `service shifts that were designed and implemented by service providers and clinicians during the crisis, should be sustained � but this requires government and regulatory alignment and resource (Marlow et al, Oct 2020; Perrier, Thorlby, Warburton et al, Sept 2020).

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56 and bring communities, people and institutions together � fighting marginalisation and distrust in the long-term.

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