The Children's Social Work Collective (CSWC), which launched earlier this month, said the strain on children’s services through the pandemic has been "unrelenting" and is "likely to be devastating for the country’s most vulnerable young people".
It said that social workers who have worked throughout the pandemic, are now questioning whether they will be able to safeguard children through the second national lockdown, which began on 5 November and will continue until at least 2 December.
Dan, a social worker in London who is part of the new group, said: "We’re trying to maintain our contact with children through lockdown. But the need is so high right now - with more families than ever relying on charity just to feed themselves - that I’m terrified we’ll miss something.
“Many of the other services we rely on are working virtually, so we are often the only professionals actually seeing children at home."
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