Analysis

Covid-19 response offers lessons for improving children’s services

8 mins read Children's Services Coronavirus
A resource centre for families on the edge of care and youth work group sessions via Zoom are two of the ways support for vulnerable groups is being maintained. Leaders assess what can be learnt for the future
Penny Watkins from West Midlands Fire Service is volunteering for the resource hub
Penny Watkins from West Midlands Fire Service is volunteering for the resource hub

Over the past two months, children’s services organisations have developed new provision and adapted existing interventions, practitioners supporting vulnerable children and families have embraced online working and taken on different roles, while sector leaders have grappled with maintaining services when large chunks of the workforce have been off sick or furloughed.

Few parts of the children’s services arena have been left untouched by the Covid-19 pandemic, but, as lockdown measures ease, the focus has shifted to analysing the effectiveness of the response so that lessons can be learned and emerging good practice identified and continued.

Here, CYP Now highlights some of the good practice being delivered.

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