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Oct 2020
Overstretched health visitors each caring for up to 2,400 families with newborns
The sector’s most senior figure has warned that overstretched health visitors have been forced to care for up to 2,400 families with newborns at a time, which is ten times the recommended number. Prompting fears that generations of babies could face a troubled future, Cheryll Adams, chief executive of the Institute of Health Visiting, said…