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Walk-in centres will open for under 16s to boost slow jabs roll-out

NHS chief confirms access from half-term

Covid vaccines for children: what schools need to know

The government has published guidance today on how the vaccine roll-out in schools for 12- to 15-year-olds will work. Here’s your trusty Schools Week guide on what you need to know. Schools won’t run jabs roll-out … As with normal school vaccinations, the School Age Immunisation Service (SAIS) will plan the roll-out, administer the jabs […]

Vaccines to be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds ‘within weeks’

School leaders have welcomed the government’s plan to make vaccines available to 16- and 17-year-olds across England within “a short number of weeks”. The rollout has now been approved for over-16s by the government’s joint committee on vaccination and immunisation (JCVI), but it stopped short of recommending jabs for younger children. Professor Wei Shen Lim, […]

School at heart of Covid surge ‘breaks vaccine record’

A school at the centre of Bolton’s fight against the Indian Covid variant estimates more than 10,000 people have now been vaccinated on its site. Essa Academy volunteered to become a vaccination centre after a surge in cases in the town, with the BL3 and BL4 postcodes particularly hard-hit. On Sunday, 3,072 people received their […]

School staff won’t be prioritised for vaccine as government continues with age-based approach

School staff will not be prioritised for Covid-19 vaccinations over other workers in the next phase of immunisation, the government has confirmed. But education workers in their forties will be next in line for the jab along with all others in that age group once phase two begins, after ministers confirmed the age-based approach to […]