Source: Health visitors call for limits on ‘impossible’ 1,000-family caseloads – BBC News
Limits should be introduced on the “unmanageable” caseloads of health visitors in England, with some now responsible for more than 1,000 families each, the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) has said.
The number of health visitors – qualified nurses or midwives who support families with very young children – has almost halved in the last decade.
In January, the Health and Social Care Committee said the government would fail in its ambition to give every child the best start in life, unless it took urgent action to rebuild the workforce.
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