So many decisions are being weighed up in this crisis, but the hardest for me is how the lockdown is affecting vulnerable children. On tonight's @BBCNewsnight we look at the impact - a social worker tells us she was physically sick when she heard schools were closing
...a Chief Constable asks: "Is it possible that we will see a coronavirus impact upon child sexual abuse? Yes I think it’s possible, in exactly the same way as I’ve got to work on the premise that we will also see more children groomed and abused online"
...a School Head teacher, masterminding the delivery by her staff of 281 bags of food to economically deprived children, tells us why it's important that vulnerable children attend school: "when they're here with us, you can see quite a lot of what's going on"
Schools are being kept open for key workers and vulnerable children, but it's not compulsory and we've established there's very low take up amongst at risk kids, less than 10% in some areas. Some parents whose kids have EHCPs may justifiably feel it's safer to keep kids at home
But as the social worker tells us: "For those who deliberately hurt children, these closures work very much to their advantage because they do quite literally have a captive audience, they have people there who can't get away".
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