30: Children’s services, social distancing and COVID-19
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Social distancing has made it difficult for practitioners to provide the same level of regular support and direct contact to children and families. Other than occasional doorstep visits, check-ins are no longer face-to-face but observed through video and telephone calls. How are practitioners ensuring that children and families’ needs are still being met?
Anne Longfield, Executive Chair of the Centre for Young Lives, shares her thoughts on what needs to be done to improve the safeguarding support available to teenagers across the UK.
Published 11/11/24
NSPCC Helpline and Childline representatives discuss the effects of domestic abuse on babies, children and young people.
Published 10/28/24