And now because teachers are useless groomers of children.
They need to bring in help in an attempt to fix the broken minds of children.
Or is this just another attempt to bring in even more sick grooming under the guise of mental health?
If only the teachers and the education department simply did what they are employed to do
Teach
And not groom children for the twisted minority of sexual sickos
Quote: Army of nurses to heal schools
EXCLUSIVE
LINDA SILMALIS
AN army of nurses will be posted to primary and high schools to treat and refer pupils dealing with mental health and medical issues.
Two years after a successful trial involving six nurses, the state government is taking up the model with $46.5 million to be spent on a statewide rollout of 100 “wellbeing and health in-reach” nurses over the next four years.
The registered nurses, who will be employed by NSW Health but will not wear uniforms, will be charged with treating and triaging students for ailments ranging from playground injuries to mental health and eating disorders or HSC concerns, while working closely with school counsellors, organisations such as Headspace, and local GPs.
The nurses will be assigned to areas of need.
A brainchild of Mental Health Minister Bronnie Taylor and one of many announcements to be contained in Tuesday’s state Budget, the program is designed to provide students with an adult to whom they can talk about their concerns.
Ms Taylor, who was a breast care nurse, said an evaluation report of the joint NSW Health and Education Department pilot had found the six embedded nurses had dealt with a wide range of student problems. However, addressing mental health issues and providing social and behavioural support were most common.
“Counsellors are important but sometimes a kid won’t see one because of the stigma attached with mental health issues, but they might go see a nurse,” Ms Taylor said. “We’ve found they’ve gone to see a nurse for a physical issue, but then they end up talking about mental health or about what is really bothering them.”
In 2018, the trial involved nurses being embedded in schools in Cooma, Tumut and Young before it was extended to Deniliquin, Lithgow and Murwillumbah this year.
The nurses saw around 60 individual students per month, some of whom had multiple sessions.
Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the expansion was in acknowledgment of the added stress COVID-19 had placed on families.
Nurses would be assigned based on data from a variety of government departments.
“Health will fund these positions but work with the Department of Education, using data to place the nurses in areas of most need,” he said.