Health visitors call for limits on ‘impossible’ 1,000-family caseloads

• Health visitor numbers in England have declined by nearly 50% over the past decade, creating dangerously high caseloads of up to 1,000 families per practitioner
• Current staffing levels are unsustainable and compromise the quality of early intervention services, particularly for vulnerable families and child safeguarding
• Health visitors are calling for workforce investment and caseload limits to restore capacity for adequate family assessment and preventative care delivery

BBC analysis shows the number of health visitors in England has almost halved in the last 10 years.

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