Domestic abuse should be ‘central pillar’ to COVID-19 strategy
Tackling domestic abuse should be a central pillar of the broader strategy to combat the Covid-19 epidemic, according to the Home Affairs Committee.
The committee calls for a comprehensive cross-governmental Covid-19 strategy on domestic abuse during lockdown and the period afterwards, when needs may be high, after Calls and contacts to the national domestic abuse [...]
Vulnerable children ‘at heightened risk” as a result of COVID-19
The outbreak of the coronavirus has put hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children in England at heightened risk, the children’s commissioner has warned.
Anne Longfield has raised concerns about the dangers of vulnerable children falling through gaps in services and policy, adding that lockdown measures have removed most of the usual ways of identifying children [...]
Government funding for vulnerable children amid COVID-19
Children in care, young people with mental health problems are care leavers are to benefit from £12m government investment during the Coronavirus outbreak.
The government has announced £12 million of funding to be allocated to 14 projects across the UK to tackle the increased risk some children and young people are facing as they stay [...]
New ADCS president: COVID-19 will ‘plunge more families into poverty’
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to plunge even more children and families into poverty, the new president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services has warned.
Echoing concerns raised by WillisPalmer weeks ago that many of the measures introduced to combat the spread of the virus have placed vulnerable children in increasingly dangerous [...]
Traffic and calls to domestic abuse charity surge during lockdown
Calls to the National Domestic Abuse helpline rose by 120 per cent overnight on 6 April while traffic to Refuge’s website rose by 700 per cent from the previous day.
The charity Refuge which runs the domestic abuse helpline found that contacts to the helpline and its website had risen considerably since lockdown measures were [...]
Blog: New timescales and remote working at WillisPalmer
By Mark Willis
As every other school, local authority, solicitors, children’s home and business across the UK, WillisPalmer has had to make some changes to our working practices during the current climate of COVID-19.
This week, we have successfully carried out psychological assessments entirely remotely and still to the high standard you have come to [...]
