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1696743

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Nurses: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent qualified school nurses are working in a public health-commissioned (a) school nursing service, (b) zero to 19 service and (c) five to 19 healthy child programme in each local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	19035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2024 answer text <p>Since April 2013, local authorities have held responsibility for commissioning public health services for school-aged children. These services may be commissioned from a range of providers both inside and outside of the National Health Service. NHS England publishes monthly workforce data which includes information on the number of school nurses directly employed by NHS trusts and other core NHS organisations in England. This data will not represent the total number of school nurses delivering local authority commissioned services, as it will excludes places where services are commissioned outside of the NHS. It is not possible to identify the specific service or programme that these staff are working within.</p><p>While data is not available at a local authority level, the following table shows full-time equivalent (FTE) school nurses working within NHS trusts and other core organisations in England by Government Office Region, as of November 2023:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Government Office Region</p></td><td><p>FTE School Nurses</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>325</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>434</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>291</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>286</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>207</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 04/04/2024 10:58:19 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1582851

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Nurses: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of school nurses.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	137880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2023 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of local authority commissioners, working with their service provider, to determine school nurses’ numbers based upon local needs. Requirements should be underpinned by a local workforce plan and population health needs.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 13/02/2023 14:06:35 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 53396 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1220370

registered interest
date	02/07/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Nurses: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to recruit additional school nurses.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	68383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2020 answer text <p>From April 2013, local authorities have been responsible for public health locally, including commissioning public health services for school aged children in their area. This includes school nursing services.</p><p>Local authorities should assess the health needs of their populations and commission the appropriate school nursing services. Local authorities will determine the school nursing numbers depending on need. This will be underpinned by robust workforce plans.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 17/07/2020 14:00:27 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1174348

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Nurses: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many registered nurses were employed in school nursing teams in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	9689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 07/02/2020 11:20:16 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth