Do they not read what they send out to parents!?!?

[FlemCandango]

This anti Vax bollox was sent round to all parents of my child's school today. See photo.

I am struggling to understand why and how this happened! They have sent round a new email to say ignore the previous. But really poor show from the school 🤦

The email was sent to headteachers, from an email address which ended @nhs-vaccines.uk. I've copied and pasted it below, having changed the name. The headteacher where I work forwarded it to me because my role includes planning and facilitating school vaccinations.

Things that made me suspicious:

• It's not called the Child Vaccines Team.
• The domain name of the email address did not match that of the emails we have received from NHS teams.
• The attachment did not seem genuine.

I shared my concerns with the head, who did not forward it to parents.

"Dear Mr Smith

As you are aware, on the advice of our Chief Medical Officers, the COVID-19 vaccination programme has now been extended to 12 to 15 year-olds.

In order to address parental concerns and expedite vaccination appointments, we are distributing consent checklist documents via schools to all students aged 12 to 15.

The checklist complements the COVID-19 Vaccination Consent Forms that families should have already received. As an important part of the consent process, the document provides comprehensive risk-benefit information, assisting parents and children in making an informed decision on whether they feel a COVID-19 vaccination would be in their best interest.

Please find the checklist document, attached, for you to distribute to each of your students. We kindly request this is done at your earliest convenience - and regardless of whether students may receive their vaccination on your school premises or elsewhere.

For further information on the COVID-19 vaccination programme, please visit the NHS Coronavirus Vaccination page at www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination.

Thank you in advance for your valued assistance in furthering the safe and effective roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccination programme.

Yours faithfully,

Childhood Vaccines Team"

That is shocking, faircastle. I wonder if the people sending it could be done for fraud or something. It does feel like it should be illegal.

I must be missing something, how is it anti vaxx?

“MrsTesfaye
Well I agree with it! No way I'm having the vaccine, or my kids. Its good that they are making people aware of the risks, finally.”

Each to their own….

Because it’s full of crap put out by a group who don’t want kids to have the vaccine who are shitty enough to impersonate the NHS to weasel their way into school communications, Suzi

It's fine if they don't want to vaxx yourself or your kids. But by making up fake info from NHS to try to stop people vaccinating their children, they have crossed the line. I really hope they are held accountable for their actions, whoever they are.

We received the same ‘checklist’ today along with the consent form, information sheet etc.
Obviously a lot of schools have been taken in by this.

@Faircastle well spotted - that domain name was only registered 5 days ago.

www.nominet.uk/whois/?query=NHS-vaccines.uk&cc-num=#whois-results

And they've redirected nhs-vaccines.uk to www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/ so it looks more legitimate.

If it isn't an NHS document, but displays an NHS logo, I'd say whoever sent it could be in serious trouble. I hope so, anyway. Personally I hope they throw the whole library at them, shelving included, never mind the book.

Story on the BBC about these

Also relatively easy to spot as hoax because if families have already been sent Vaccines Consent Forms, why didn’t they receive this “info” at the time?

Hoax isn't the right word and I don't think the BBC should be calling them that.

Targeted disinformation.

You do know ‘school’ is staffed by real people who are busy educating your child and make a human mistake?

It's staffed by people who are supposed to be educating children. I would expect them to read stuff like this before they send it out. Surely it should be standard practice?

It really is quite blatant how selective they have been about the information in that form. For instance, only giving the average age of death as at January 2021, before the effects of vaccines started to kick in.

@FlemCandango

It’s a hoax letter schools have been caught up in

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-58713266

@Droite

You do know ‘school’ is staffed by real people who are busy educating your child and make a human mistake?

It's staffed by people who are supposed to be educating children. I would expect them to read stuff like this before they send it out. Surely it should be standard practice?

How many school secretaries, clerical officers or receptionists do you have teaching at your school?

It’s a population level decision based on the need to prevent further disruption to education.

At a population level they’ve judged that the overall risk to this generation of further education disruption is likely to be more harmful than any risks from the vaccine.

@DumplingsAndStew

How many school secretaries, clerical officers or receptionists do you have teaching at your school?

No school should be leaving a decision on whether to forward a form to all parents to their secretaries, clerical officers or receptionists. That would be an appalling communications policy for any institution.

I don't think blaming school staff do any good. It's a very clever, calculated targeted attack. Parents should be supporting school. It's only those who've done this to blame.

I get really annoyed at the unprofessional state of school communication in general. But you're right Megistotherium, it was a devious and well executed attack and the people that did are the ones to blame.

@DumplingsAndStew, why on earth do you assume that schools leave the responsibility for sending out information to parents solely to secretaries, clerical officers or receptionists? That would be grossly irresponsible.

Is the form the same one as referenced in this news article? If so, it's fake (sorry if I'm late to the party on this): news.sky.com/story/covid-19-nhs-director-alerts-parents-to-fake-vaccine-consent-letters-12420150

and we trust schools to teach kids to understand what they are reading. When obv. many at the top don't.
I -as millions of others- have a full time job, kid, house to run, do all domestic stuff etc...
and yet I read every piece of information i create or forward. Every time. Not spot check, read. I am responsible for giving the correct info to the correct ppl at the correct time. So are heads. They should read/think and then decide to send or not.

If they have to fake an NHS logo, it shows how little confidence they have in making claims under their own names because ultimately only a minority of ill informed people would believe the garbage they are regurgitating. Says it all!

Gold star for our school - no antivax propaganda and already vaxxed the 12-15 kids.