Children: Coronavirus
(asked on 24th May 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant the Answer of 17 May 2021 to Question 822 on Children: Coronavirus, if his Department will make an assessment of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the development of children aged two years and under.
This question was answered on 3rd June 2021
Health visitors assess child development through universal health and wellbeing reviews, with a formal development assessment completed at the two to two and a half year review. Currently there are no plans for further assessments of child development.