30: Children’s services, social distancing and COVID-19

NSPCC Learning Podcast

Social distancing measures and lockdown has made it difficult for practitioners to provide direct contact to children and families. Other than occasional doorstep visits, check-ins are no longer face-to-face but take place through video and telephone calls. How are practitioners ensuring that children and families’ needs are still being met?
You'll hear from a children’s services practitioner about:

• the pressures of lockdown and the long-term impact, including looking out for concerning signs of abuse and neglect
• how they’re working with multiple agencies to meet different children and families’ needs and distributing resources for parents and carers
• potential child protection issues that may emerge as we transition back to pre-lockdown life
• how children are being supported to understand current issues in a child-friendly way
• next steps for delivering services virtually, such as group work programmes.

Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.
💬 About the speaker
Dannie Adcock-Habib is a Children’s Services Practitioner at the NSPCC’s Grimsby Service Centre and a qualified social worker who is involved in undertaking Family Focus assessments. She delivers the NSPCC’s Building Blocks service and Young SMILES service (Simplifying Mental Illness plus Life Enhancement Skills).
📚 Related resources

> See our resources for children and families at risk

> Find out more about the Together for Childhood programme

> Learn about the effects of toxic stress on child development

Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros