This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition head lice checks in schools
Permission for a couple of volunteer parents from each school go in once a week and do a visual inspection, anybody with lice will have a text sent home for them to be treated that night by parents. This inspection will be done permission asked and given from the parents.
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Every parent has had this issue of head lice. You find a few in your child's hair. You treat them as best you can but when they go back to school the following few weeks they have caught them again from someone in their class. Its a never ending cycle.
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