A survey of thousands of parents, carried out by charities including Best Beginnings, Home Start UK and Parent-Infant Foundation, during lockdown and found that just 11 per cent of parents with children under the age of two had seen a health visitor face-to-face.
This left parents without vital support in areas such as nutrition, the charities say, adding that just over a quarter (28 per cent) of those who are breastfeeding feel they have not had the support they require.
One mother surveyed said: “Not having face-to-face visits with health visitors or midwives in the weeks following the birth, makes me anxious that she hasn’t been checked for any potential health concerns which may have arisen after birth.”
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