The Big Ask: What we learned from children aged 4-5
24th June 2022
This Lightning Review by Anne Longfield examines the possible weaknesses in local systems that are preventing school nurses from carrying out their duties.
It highlights the Commissioner’s concerns that school nurses are spending more time on bureaucratic child protection duties and paperwork than their duties of improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people in England.
School nurses operate under six fundamental values that help promote and maximise health and wellbeing: