Community Children's Nurses

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 24 March 2009.

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Photo of Mary Creagh Mary Creagh Labour, Wakefield 2:30, 24 March 2009

Will the funding allocated to primary care trusts for community children's nurses be ring-fenced? As we often see with PCTs, if the money is not ring-fenced, it can sometimes be diverted to other priorities. How will the nurses work and interact with the local authority, which often provides the child's basic care needs in terms of getting the child up, ready and dressed?