Health written question – answered at on 28 January 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects his Department's target for one qualified school nurse to be allocated to each secondary school and its cluster of primary schools to be met.
Working in partnership across heath and education we have made good progress in expanding the qualified school nursing workforce.
Linking primary schools to their nearest secondary school gives about 3,000 clusters in England. The 2008 workforce census showed there were 3,643 (headcount) qualified nurses working in school health services, an increase of 1,234 or 51 per cent. since 2004. Of these, there were 1,447 (headcount) nurses with the post registration school nurse qualification. This is an increase of 591 or 69 per cent. since 2004.
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