Children's charity fears pause in health visitor appointments has damaged parents' mental health.
Rhian said she realised now that her mental health was affected.
"During this difficult time, essential contacts were prioritised and a designated helpline was set up where families could contact a health visitor for advice." But in March 2020 face to face visits were stopped for families who were not deemed at risk and health visitors, like Tesni, were redeployed to other units within hospitals to help with the spread of Covid.Some specialist hubs were set up during the pandemic and sessions were held through video calls for some parents.
"Safeguarding child protection is a really important part of the health visitor's role, and they have unique skills in assessing a child and family's welfare."And that's why home visits from the health visiting team are so crucial." "It was done for a reason, but in hindsight, perhaps there could have been further backup plans and perhaps they [health visitors] shouldn't have been removed at that time.
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