According to the latest UK government data, compared to 2019 the death, serious harm, abuse or neglect of children under five 27% increased in 2020. Unfortunately, the same increase is observed for children under one.

Moreover, the Nuffield Foundation research finds out and empathized the following problems:

  • The 50% of health visitors in England were redeployed during the first 2020 lockdown, with just one in 10 parents of children under two seeing a health visitor face-to-face.
  • There are over half a million children under five (17 %) living in a household with domestic abuse, parental mental health problems or parental substance misuse.
  • The 46% of children who died or were seriously harmed were not known to children’s social services in 2019
  • The effect of the pandemic on England’s youngest children has been exacerbated by years of cuts to local authority services despite an “increasing proportion of young children having been subject to child welfare interventions over the last 10-15 years”.
  • The spending on preventative services to support struggling families in England has fallen from £3.8bn in 2010 to £2.1bn in 2018
  • The children living in the poorest neighbourhoods are at least 10 times more likely to be in care than children in the richest neighbourhood's.
  • The inequalities between ethnic groups in the proportions of children being looked after in England

Carey Oppenheim, co-author of the review and early childhood lead at the Nuffield Foundation consider that in spite of some developments these problems stay unsolved because most of these vulnerable groups are not known to services. Even all of these cannot be solved by social work and family justice while poverty remains a significant risk factor.

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