Babies and toddlers have “fallen behind with their social skills” due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report has claimed.
Youngsters have missed out on important interactions at a critical stage of their development which has led to many being far behind where they would have been had it not been for the crisis, experts said. A new report from the First 1001 Days Movement and Institute of Health Visiting claims that youngsters are still reeling from the impact of the crisis.
Personal and social skills, communication, speech and language abilities and emotional wellbeing and development are just some of the areas that ‘Covid babies’ are falling short of where they would be expected to be for their age. The report said that babies and toddlers and their families experienced the pandemic at a “particularly pertinent time”.
