school health service

school health service
(in Britain) a service concerned with the early detection of physical, intellectual, and emotional abnormalities in schoolchildren and their subsequent treatment and surveillance. The service was formerly based on an ideal of three examinations at 5, 11, and 15 years by doctors and nurses specially employed by the Local Education Authority (LEA). It has now been changed to a system of selective examinations based on recommendations by teachers, school nurse, or parental requests. The service is now the responsibility of the local Primary Care Trust, but ascertainment and responsibility for allocation to special school remain the responsibility of the LEA.

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