Each school in England is going to have a nurse who is able to arrange abortions and distribute contraception, so it seeemed emerged.
New guidelines are to permit nurses to help pupils receive the morning-after pill, abortions as well as pregnancy tests without parental knowledge.
Family campaigners have condemned controversial guidance from the Department for Education and the Department of Health as "disgraceful".
2,409 nurses work in primary and secondary schools presently throughout England. However, yesterday's announcement signifies a huge extension. By 2010, each primary care trust will fund at least one full-time qualified nurse working amongst every small group of state primary schools as well as their local secondary.
These plans come a day after Gordon Brown's Budget cut tax on condoms and the morning-after pill in order to improve the national sexual health.
Nurses are considered best able to provide this service as they are best able to assess need and prescribe medication or provide specialist contraception advice for the longer term.
Nurses are also aware of confidentiality issues which enables under-16s to receive contraceptive services without parental consent.
