Four and a half thousand young people in Leicestershire are among the first in the country to be able to text message their school nurse. The government’s School Nurse Development Programme wants to see the use of email, texts and apps to help students make appointments or ask questions more easily. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust has launched a project for students aged 11 to 19 at three schools. Posters are advertising the new service and an app will be launched soon.
Teaching has come eighth in a league table showing how happy different professions are with their career prospects. However, only 38.4 per cent of teachers said they were happy with their career prospects – just above the national average of 37.6 per cent. Teaching is ahead of careers such as social care and media but behind law and health. Insurance tops the list from Randstad Education.
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