The move, announced this week, follows recommendations for an additional 500 school nurses made in the chief nursing officer's review in August.
The approach will be piloted by 88 primary care trusts that will be given extra funding.
Other proposals include nutritional standards for school meals to be drawn up by the Food Standards Agency, and the roll-out of the Healthy Schools programme to all schools by 2008.
Tighter controls on the sale of tobacco to children are proposed, and there is to be a total ban on smoking in schools (Children Now, 29 September-5 October). The white paper also sets out proposals for grading and labelling unhealthy food aimed at children.
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