Earlier this year, the government’s health visitor implementation plan outlined proposals to expand and rejuvenate the health visiting service.
It pledged that every children’s centre should have access to a named health visitor and estimated that 6,000 additional health visitors will need to be trained between now and 2015.
As part of the plans, NHS PCTs and strategic health authorities have been charged with recruiting these health visitors.
But Sharon White, professional officer at Saphna, said health authorities are cutting funding for school nursing training and actively poaching qualified health visitors currently working as school nurses to try to meet the target.
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