Jenny Turnross, director of practice, Birmingham Children’s Trust; Richard Selwyn, former transformation director, Birmingham Children’s Partnership
It was March 2020, Gold Command swung into action, 1,000 staff redeployed, all eyes were on the Covid-19 fight. Even then, it was clear we needed to do still more for families: those that would lose their jobs, parents with mental health needs or instances of domestic abuse, the children who were unseen through lockdown.
Birmingham starts from a challenging place: 42 per cent of our children grow up in poverty, and nearly one in five households suffer mental ill-health, domestic abuse or substance misuse at an acute level in any year. A decade of austerity has stripped away investment from early help: something needed to change.
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