Nurses: Training
(asked on 8th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of student nurses who have childcare responsibilities.
Information on the proportion of student nurses who have childcare responsibilities is not collected by the Department.
The table below shows the total number and percentage of student nurses who were in receipt of a National Health Service bursary and also claimed an allowance in respect to potential childcare responsibilities in 2014/15.
Award Element | Number of student nurses | Percentage of total student nurses1 |
Childcare Allowance | 6,881 | 11.4% |
Parent Learning Allowance | 12,451 | 20.7% |
Dependents Allowance (Child Element) | 11,533 | 19.1% |
Source: NHS Business Services Authority
1Students may be in receipt of one or a combination of all three allowances