The Institute of Health Visiting's (IHV) State of Health Visiting in England report states that just 21 per cent of the workforce rated the quality of care they can now offer families as ‘good’ or ‘excellent.
The report is based on the accounts of 1,040 practising health visitors.
Almost half of those asked (48 per cent) say they feel so stretched that they “fear a tragedy where they work” meaning “vulnerable children are slipping through the net.”
Latest NHS figures show that one in four health visitors were lost between 2015 and 2019.
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