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There is not just one pandemic story

2 mins read The ADCS Blog
It doesn’t seem possible that I am writing my last blog as President almost exactly a year since we went into the first “lockdown”.

I said in the first (of now many) videos, filmed on my phone, that we are used to dealing with challenges in children’s services – I can’t say, or indeed any of us could have thought it would be such a challenge, go on for so long and with such consequences for family, work and home life.

We know there is growing evidence of the impact of the pandemic on children and young people and their families. 

From early in the pandemic, we have collectively as ADCS focused on bringing these pressures to the attention of government, nationally, regionally, locally and the wider public through our publications Building a Country that Works for all Children post Covid-19, the EHE analysis, the submission to the spending review and Safeguarding Pressures. 

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