Dear Parents / Carers

 

You may have heard in the News that the Government are going to be offering Covid vaccines to young  people aged between 12-15 who are at increased risk of serious COVID-19.   As we all know, it is essential to maintaining school life normality that as many  vulnerable children are vaccinated as possible and as soon as possible.    We have been asked by the Local Authority to highlight to parents the criteria for these vaccines  We encourage you to consider taking up the offer of a vaccine for your son or daughter.   

The criteria is set out below:

Children:

• All those who are aged 12 to 15 years of age and are at increased risk of serious COVID-19 disease that includes those with:
  1. severe neuro-disabilities;
  2. Down’s syndrome;
  3. underlying conditions resulting in immunosuppression; and/or
  4. profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD), severe learning disabilities or who are on the learning disability register; or
• Household contacts: All those who are the household contacts of individuals (either adults or children) who are immunosuppressed but only where the patient has been assessed as competent to consent and does consent, or is not assessed as competent but does not object and consent is provided by somebody with parental responsibility

 

Parents should contact their GP for a vaccine appointment at Winston Churchill Hall.

 

Kind regards

Meadow High School