NHS bosses urge families to book their children in for a coronavirus jab to provide 'crucial protection ahead of winter'
Jabs for this groupHundreds more schools will be visited by NHS teams next week.
Consent letters are sent to parents and guardians, with most children getting one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Some who are more vulnerable are offered two."It is fantastic that one million 12 to 15-year-olds have now had their COVID jabs thanks to the schools programme and the hard work of specialist NHS teams who are either visiting hundreds of schools every single week or our vaccination sites," she said.
"I would urge families to look at the information together and then book in to give children and their loved ones crucial protection ahead of winter."