Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Minister for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on the proportion of state secondary schools which have a school nurse.

School nurses are not based in or employed by schools and they will usually cover a cluster of secondary schools and their feeder primary schools. The delivery of services within schools is for local determination and commissioning for the service is led by local authorities. Some schools will choose to commission additional school nursing capacity to meet specific identified public health needs. Due to the variable nature of a school nurse’s commitments no national data exists on the proportion of schools that currently have a school nurse.