Calls for 11,000 more school nurses in UK as children’s needs grow

Survey finds exhaustion and low morale among school nurses as they face increasingly complex caseloadsSchool nurses’ crucial, underfunded roleThe UK needs at least 11,000 more school nurses to deal with the increasingly complex needs of young people after the pandemic, and help prevent them from developing serious mental health problems, researchers and campaigners say.The number of school nurses has fallen by 35% in the last five years to about 2,000, and research by Oxford Brookes Univer