Any school nurses on here?

[drspouse]

Just got a form from the school nurse for DD who has just started Reception.
It asks where she was born (fine) but also where her parents and grandparents were born.
Why are they asking?
If it's for medical reasons, I need to know, because she is adopted and we don't know where all her birth grandparents were born, but the information isn't the same as for us. And we don't know some of it.
If it's for immigration reasons, they can sod right off. Especially as she has one foreign born adoptive grandparent too.

Just fill in the bits you are happy to and leave the rest blank. They don't NEED that info at all.

Why are they asking then?

Almost certainly for medical reasons. Health visitors for instance ask where parents and grandparents were born as it determines whether a baby is eligible for a BCG vaccination.

Didn’t know primary schools still had school nurses! I work in a primary and we certainly do not ask for that info.

I’m adopted and when asked for this just write “adopted, no family history”.
I’m also a nurse, and would be fine with this answer.

singing surely then they'd need to know about who's living in the household?
The grandparent who was born abroad doesn't live with us and neither do her birth parents or grandparents obviously.

Nothis apparently academies can opt out of the school nurse service, and most do, because they have to pay for it.

(But we could have a lodger or an aunt/uncle/cousin living with us whose place of birth was relevant)

I imagine it's almost certainly to do with bcg vaccine. My fil is Malaysian therefore my ds is eligible (and has had) the vaccine.

If you don't know then just put adopted, im sure it'll be fine.