What do you do about school nursing services for a child with SN?

[Chopster]

Ds is under a paediatrician, so gets regular health checks and height, weight, etc. He misses enough time off school as it is. I've never seen eye to eye with the school nurse, and she has previously sent a shedload of referrals for problems that he doesn't have such as hearing and sight which meant yet more appointments for ds.

The next assessment is due, and I'm thinking of telling them I don't want him checked. Partly because he misses enough class time as it is, and partly because I think the school nurse is incompetant. Surely if a child is being regularly check by a paediatrician they don't need a school nurse checking them too?

I don't know if you can opt out of school nurse checks but I dont see why not. I sent a note to the nurse to say Ds (who has LD/ASD)had been checked by the relevent specialties and he was not screened by the nurse.
Our school nurse service has been useful - ours is better with practicalities than any of the paediatricians we attend! I think the school nurse is expected to refer on any child who does not fly through their screening tests - this may include children with certain sn for whom the tests used are not ideal.

thanks, the letter says to call if you don't want your child screened, I jsut have a feeling that she isn't going to be happy, and I wanted to know if it was a reasonable request. Unfortunately ours is as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Thankfully the ed psy is great for the practicalities at school.

We have the opposite issue- ur school nurse is invisible! NAS lady wanted to know what advice she had given about ds1 and ds3 (esp. ds3's toilet training) and as quite shocked when Is aid we'd never heard from her! I know she exists- have a letter stating she's running a handwashing activity in front of me- but nothing beyond that.

We have an 'invisible' nurse too. I have no idea who they are. Ds2 had an assessment with her last term but I'm not sure it was particularly useful.

I thought they only needed to be seen by the nurse in reception in Yr6? I don't think I'd bother with anything more than that tbh, especially as your ds sees the Paed anway.