While the NHS remains the biggest employer of children's health professionals, many now work in multi-agency teams. In the children's sector, roles cover a wide range of areas including nursing, midwifery, health visiting, paediatrics, mental health, substance misuse and sexual health.
There were 50,341 registered children's nurses in the UK in March 2017, but while children and young people make up approximately a quarter of the population, only five per cent of registered nurses have a children's nursing qualification, according to Children and Young People's Nurse Academics UK. Recruitment onto children's nursing programmes is healthy, with many university courses oversubscribed. However, children's nurse educators are under increasing pressure to justify specialist child nursing qualifications when a generic nursing qualification may be cheaper to deliver.
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