The Thomas Coram Report - Promoting the Health of Children and Young People Through Schools: The Roles of the Nurse

This study was commissioned by the Department of Health and was conducted by a team of researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TRCU), Institute of Education (IOE) .

The study examined the different ways in which nurses are enabled and supported to contribute to the promotion and safeguarding of children and young people's health and well-being with school settings.

Through its various components, the study sought to identify the roles of nurses in schools , the sorts of challenges that nurses face in fulfilling the roles (and the expectations placed upon them), and the management, commissioning and strategic arrangements most likely to maximise the potential of nurses' contribution to children and young people's health and well-being.

The full report is available below:
Thomas Coram Report (682.5 KB)