Health visitors across England are sounding the alarm as impossible caseloads of up to 1,000 families push the profession to breaking point. These dedicated community health professionals, who provide crucial support to parents and young children, are demanding urgent government intervention to set manageable limits on their workloads.

The crisis has intensified dramatically over the past decade, with new BBC analysis revealing that the number of health visitors in England has plummeted by nearly 50%. This dramatic reduction has forced remaining staff to take on increasingly unmanageable workloads, potentially compromising the quality of care provided to vulnerable families during critical early childhood development stages.