{"id":7803,"date":"2021-03-22T14:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/?p=7803"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:53:47","slug":"22-03-21-royal-college-of-nursing-calls-for-a-nurse-in-every-school-to-address-child-mental-health-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/22-03-21-royal-college-of-nursing-calls-for-a-nurse-in-every-school-to-address-child-mental-health-problems","title":{"rendered":"22\/03\/21 \u2013 Royal College of Nursing Calls for a Nurse in Every School to Address Child Mental Health Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\u00a0<\/span>Head of the Royal College of Nursing, Dame Donna Kinnair has called for every school to have a permanent school nurse to help stem a child mental health crisis that some experts have predicted may become the next pandemic.<\/b>
\n(Read the\u00a0full article in the Mail Online\u00a0HERE<\/a>.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Donna Kinnair attributed the severity of the situation to problems arising from, or aggravated by, COVID-19 and the RCN proposal is included in a manifesto of ideas to improve the health of the UK population published by the College of Medicine. Donna Kinnair said:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Every school should have a school nurse \u2026.with one in six children and young people experiencing mental health issues, the role of school nurses has never been more important in assisting them.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The proposal has been backed by the National Association of Head Teachers. General Secretary, Paul Whiteman said that the Government should also give an immediate commitment to fund:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018A single member of staff with a relevant knowledge and expertise to act as the school lead for mental health.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The Department for Health and Social Care has yet to respond to the proposals but they have been welcomed by Helen Clark, Campaign Manager for the Child Mental Health Charter Campaign who added:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018We support both of these calls \u2013 and would also include an immediate appointment in every school of a fully-funded therapist or counsellor (whichever is appropriate to age group and need) who is registered and subject to annual \u2018fit to practice\u2019 checks through an independent Government-approved agency such as the Professional Authority\u2019s Accredited Register Programme or the Health and Care Profession Council.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

All the posts are non-negotiable and the Government must announce a fully-resourced national programme of provision in every school as of urgency.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Mental health deserves parity with physical health and above all this means parity in funding.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Money talks \u2013 and in the interests of UK children, the Ministerial deafening silence must end NOW!\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/i>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childmentalhealthcharter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}