The answer from Beverley Hughes makes clear that the Nurse and Primary Health Care Trust are those responsible. However, she also states:
School governors are responsible for ensuring that the school has consulted parents on the nature and scope of any health services available in the school; and ensuring that a protocol exists with the PCT/Trust that makes clear which services will be delivered by PCT/trust staff working on the school site.This has obvious implications for Catholic schools whose Governors should make quite clear that School Nurses do not provide the abortifacient (and dangerous) Morning After Pill in Catholic schools.
From Hansard for 6 June 2006.
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The Morning After Pill is distributed by school nurses?! That's frightening. And tragic. Yeeshhh.
Sadly this is routine in non-Catholic schools in England. The battle is to prevent it happening in Catholic schools - a battle we have not always won :-(
Unfortunately, the school nurse reigns supreme... of all the professionals in the school, the nurse is the only one who does not seem to have to report any instances of underage sexual activity to the Child Protection Officer: whatever advice she gives is "confidential"
...and, of course, the whole sex-education thing is about preventing underage pregnancy, not preventing underage sex!
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