Letter: Where’s the nit nurse gone?
Friday 21st May 2010, 6:30AM BST.
How it used to be - the 'nit nurse' and a couple of young patients
Letter: Can someone please tell me why we no longer have the nit nurse at school?
I managed to go through school in the late-Seventies and early-Eighties without once having to encounter these horrible little things.
Now with two small children at infants school, it is a constant battle to eliminate them. No matter what lotion or potion or regular de-nitting you do, they always manage to reappear.
I know for a fact many other mothers are sick and tired of the situation so please, please, please get the nit nurse back into our schools.
S Neville
Shrewsbury
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Current schools policy on head lice is based on The Stafford Report 1998 (updated 2002,2008). This report is evidence based and essentially defines headlice as of a social issue.
1.7 p4 states headlice is a problem of society.
1.8.p4 responsibility for the control of head lice states 1.8.1 Parents, the primary responsibility, for the identification, treatment and prevention of head lice in a family has to lie with the parents, if only for reasons of practicality.
Notably many conscientious parents have serious possibly valid concerns of this issue ,especially when their children repeatedly have infection , I believe a fundamental criticism is to be laid on voluntary schools governorship , many do not properly explain in schools prospectus their policy on this issue . Having read the Stafford Report this issue is complex , schools need nationally to adopt a clear justified explaination of their policy that parents indeed schools cohesively understand.
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i was told we no longer have nit nurses due to the fact that it can be classed as some sort of child abuse which is also the reason why when the school dentist visits he or she cant actualy touch the childs mouth he or she can only use the mirror to look inside. its stupid if this is the case as certain parents spend hundreds within their childrens junior school years (it does seem to go once you get to secondry school unless they catch it from younger ones)and others just dont notice their childrens heads are crawling with lice ,when just a simple letter from a nurse and a prescription for treatment would eleminate a huge problem .
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Do not need such people going into schools for such reasons as this, it is parents who need to check.
Schools I believe do have a problem and that is parents who refuse to check, or the worst one of all and what I have heard about parents who are aware the child is infected and does nothing about but sends them to school to infect others.My view on this two warnings for the parents then removal of the child until they comply and prosection .
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Alot of the problem is peoples misconceptions of the actual propblem . To share the view of some would be to believe parents deliberately neglect children that schools don’t care and that it is the states responsiblity to sort the pesky blighters out !
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