Has anyone had experience of their local health visitors lately? I’m just wondering if our experience is typical. I do understand the system is under strain with the pandemic but the lack of support we have experienced is terribly disappointing. So I originally tried to get hold of the health visitors back in Oct 2020 on recommendation of the GP when I had concerns about my then 18 month olds development. I called their hub number numerous times with no answer so GP referred us to the child development team who advised she was delayed but they would re-assess this August (this hasn’t happened yet due to COVID but is a separate issue). Around Sept/ Oct I noticed that all the other kids in my NCT group had long since had their 2 year check but we had not heard anything. I had also noticed some early developmental delay with milestones in our 5 month old twins so reaches out again. Was told they didn’t know why our DD was missed from the 2 year check but scheduled an appointment 1 month ago. I briefly spoke with a duty health visitor who didn’t really give any advice but said we would need to be assigned a new health visitor as our previous one had retired. At the same time our DD also had her 2 year check where it was noted she is very delayed- again I was told that the new health visitor would contact us to deal with concerns about all three children and coordinate what services would need to be involved with my eldest DD. Since then it’s been nearly a month. Twice a week every week I have been chasing for someone to call me. Every week they say someone will definitely call but then Friday passes with no call. I’m almost at the point of giving up, it’s like banging your head against a brick wall. I did manage to dig out an email after searching online and have sent a message outlining how much difficulty I’m having to even just talk to a health visitor- any health visitor. Really don’t know what else to do to be honest. It’s so hard to even just speak with the admin team- they answer 1/10 calls and have no provision to leave a message. Can anyone share their experience lately of contact with health visitors or give any advice about what else I could do to try get some support? I think if nothing improves we will have no choice but to seek private help….