Thread by @tedtalksoph

"Protect the NHS. Save lives" 💙

1/🔵 Sober reading in the BMJ. During the spring lockdown there was an 1493% increase in cases of children presenting with abusive head trauma at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital.
adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

2/🔵 The number of babies in England that have suffered serious injury through abuse or neglect during the Covid pandemic is up by a fifth on the same period last year, and eight have died from their injuries, according to Ofsted.
theguardian.com/society/2020/n…

3/🔵 Rise in suspected child abuse cases after lockdown
The number of reported incidents of children dying or being seriously harmed after suspected abuse or neglect rose by a quarter after England's first lockdown last year, figures indicate.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-556827…

4/🔵 'More children admitted to hospital for mental health than medical reasons' leading pediatrician says. 'This has been a phenomenon since the start of the pandemic'
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/1…

5/🔵 Lockdowns have had a deep impact on children, who are arriving at A & E in greater numbers and at younger ages after self-harming or taking over doses. Some as young as 10.

6/🔵 Refuge recorded 15,541 calls and messages to its National Domestic Abuse helpline every month between April and February 2021.
That is more than 60% on the average number of monthly contacts at the start of 2020.

7/🔵 The pressures of lockdown may have played a part in a rise in children killed in domestic homicides said Britain’s biggest police force.