According to Institute for Health Visitors' (IHV) figures for 2021, the high caseloads in England compare particularly poorly with Scotland and Wales, where no health visitors have caseloads of this size.
England's rate is also three times the IHV’s recommended caseload limit of 250. Just nine per cent of health visitors in England have caseloads that meet this limit, compared to two thirds in Scotland and Wales.
Just under four in ten health visitors say they feel so stretched that they “worry there may be a tragedy in their area”. A similar proportion fear they “can’t do enough to safeguard babies and children".
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