The latest NHS data, from May 2017, shows that more than 554 school nurses have been lost since 2010 – almost a fifth of the NHS school nurse workforce in England.
It means that there are just 2,433 full-time school nurses working within the NHS in England.
This compares to the number of pupils in state-funded schools, which as of January 2017 stood at 3,223,090 secondary pupils and 4,689,660 primary pupils.
The warning this week has come from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which says that the lack of school nurses is “leaving teachers without vital training and pupils without necessary support”.
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