Recommendations

It is necessary in concluding this paper, to make a number of recommendations which will support realisation of the vision and ambitions set by SAPHNA .

National Priorities and Governance

1 . Notwithstanding the pressures and changes imposed by the pandemic, the recently refreshed Healthy Child Programme, alongside this, our Vision, must be given consideration and realistically implemented to ensure contemporaneous research and evidenced based practice .

2 . The funding and necessary systems to support implementation of the programme and model should be clearly scoped and made available .

3 . There should be a shift towards meaningful data collection and measures which demonstrate outcomes for children and young people and progress towards tackling key Public

Health priorities .

Leadership and Workforce

5 . Each School Nursing service should be led by a Specialist Community Public Health

Qualified School Nurse (SCPHN) with additional leadership and development qualifications. This enables services to be led strategically with greater collaboration across large and complex programmes, services and systems of care .

4 . The specialist community public health nursing (SCPHNs) for School Nursing must continue to be the recognised qualification for a School Nurse and this remains a registerable qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) . 6 . Every mainstream secondary school and its cluster of partner primary schools will have a full time named School Nurse . This nurse will be a Specialist Community Public Health

Qualified School Nurse (SCPHN) who will be responsible for coordinating the delivery of services in those schools and the local community serving those schools .

7 . Named School Nurses will work in teams supported by a skilled mixed workforce that includes staff nurses, nursery nurses and health care support workers who will work in and alongside multi-agency teams and models of working .