AM Welcomes Support

SCHOOL NURSES GO BACK TO SCHOOL

The Labour-led Welsh Assembly Government’s commitment to ensure that every secondary school in Wales has a school nurse is expected to be achieved at the end of this Assembly, Welsh Labour’s Health Minister Edwina Hart has announced today.
The Labour-led Welsh Assembly Government had committed to a school nurse for each of Wales’s 223 secondary schools, and the final three remaining posts are expected to be filled during April 2011.
The nurses’ role is to help address the health, emotional and social needs of children and young people and promote healthy behaviour and well-being. It will address the needs of all pupils regardless of their school attendance and will include services outside school hours and during school holidays where required.
Alyn & Deeside AM Carl Sargeant said,
“The school nurse scheme is a positive development for the health and wellbeing of our schoolchildren. I am certain that our local children will benefit from this initiative.”
The Assembly Government has provided additional funding to local Health Boards to enable them to employ specialist community public health school nurses (SCPHN) and registered nurses. The Health Boards will sustain the newly-created posts into the future.