Virtual children’s centres were set up, providing weekly, age-appropriate activity packs for families and running virtual parenting programmes and other useful activities; our short breaks service was redesigned to offer home care; schools were supported to work together to create a sustainable local offer for children of keyworkers and the vulnerable; we made sure that all our vulnerable children, young people and families had a laptop and access to the internet.
By week three we are in a new rhythm of service delivery. Our schools are working together to provide a local offer, both to those attending and to those staying at home. They provided a range of enrichment activities over the period that was supposed to be the Easter Holidays and our 9,000 children entitled to free school meals are receiving at the very least a weekly voucher.
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