Indeed this is the case that more staff are needed to deliver a public-health programme with teachers, pupils and parents.
For years school nurses have spent hours measuring children, yet despite this there are many obese adults and children in the UK.
New ways of working are required, as the chief nursing officer has quite rightly stated.
School nurses and educationalists are exploring new ways to deliver healthy messages, and overnight successes in this are not realistic.
But at least with partnership working some great headway is being made, empowering parents to reclaim responsibility for the health of their children.
Perhaps Tam Fry may be able to gather the measurement data for the Child Growth Foundation from children themselves, giving responsibility for personal health data back to the individual, not the professional.
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