Do children in the UK have to be vaccinated to attend school?

[AlexiaRivers]

Is there a question on schools application forms that ask wether a child has had their vaccines before they start? If so do the schools prioritise based on this?

For reasons I won't go into on this thread, I have chosen not to vaccinate so am just curious if this will have an impact on the school application process when the time comes.

@Purplewatch how do you know there were no immunocompromised kids or staff at your schools ?

Difficult to think of any reasons you wouldn't have them vaccinated

What do you mean? All you need to do is to book her in for the correct one. Yes, it’s annoying to have to go back, but surely not worth getting upset over.

Mine arent vaccinated.. my children my choice 🤷‍♀️

Mine arent vaccinated.. my children my choice

Also your responsibility. Hope it works out for them and the people it could affect.

And no, mine attend schools and nurseries and I have found quite the opposite, they do not like to be seen as discriminating and have been very accepting so far

Agreed.
I'm old enough to have been a child before mass vaccinations for common childhood illnesses were done.
Some of my most vivid memories of childhood were when I was unwell with rubella and measles.
A friend of mine is deaf due to measles in childhood.
These are not trifling illnesses. My child is vaccinated.

I saw a young man talking about this once. His parents didn't vaccinate him. When he went to uni he caught all these childhood diseases. He was so sick and in hospital several times.

He got vaccinated as an adult and he told his parents he was so pissed at their choice. They basically marred his 20s by not doing it.

“Mine arent vaccinated.. my children my choice 🤷‍♀️“

If you lived in a country where these potentially fatal diseases are still widespread you’d bloody well think differently wouldn’t you. Assuming you’re in a developed country you have the LUXURY to make this choice as a result of the choices made by others. And believe me it is a luxury.

Yeah... She's healthy because everyone around her is vaccinated so they haven't passed any deadly dieases on to her... It's called herd immunity look it up.

My child, so far, none of the above. Chicken pox at 6 months old and nothing else. She’s 9.

Unfortunately, your child is at higher risk of developing shingles later in life than a child who's been immunised against chicken pox.

Well, there's nothing* *@Purplewatch could have done in this case , even if she was pro- vaccination. A child has to be 12 months old before being vaccinated against chickenpox.

No you see it's not really. They are individual humans not your pets and you are being selfish and irresponsible not to vaccinate. If (and I hope this doesn't happen) your children contracted meningitis (which is on the rise in 15-19 year olds) in the future, you are entirely to blame for your child's suffering.

Possibly, possibly not.. I have had all of these illnesses myself so I am not ignorant

And the reason your healthy child has not caught polio, diptheria, smallpox, pnemonia, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella... is because of all of the other parents who have vaccinated their children (over generations) and have therefore more or less eradicated these diseases which once killed, paralysed and blinded hundreds of thousands of children every year.

Glad you find your own massive selfishness so hilarious.

You've had polio, smallpox and diptheria have you?
Tuberculosis?

Your choice to benefit from the herd immunity conferred by millions of less selfish people.

I name it: polio, diptheria, tuberculosis, smallpox. Have they had those?

This thread takes me back to the early Covid vaccine days when anti-vaxxers would trot out pointless anecdotes that proved nothing. Useless at a population level.

I am in favour of mandatory school vaccinations.

Why would you deliberately put your child at risk ? My unvaccinated cousin died from measles. Her unvaccinated sibling caught it from her and is deaf and blind

Negligence caused this

Bit facetious.. come on now

@BloodAndFire I'm so with you. Threads like these show you that common sense really isn't common!

You said you've had (verbatim quote from you) all those illnesses myself - all the potentially fatal diseases that vaccinations are there to protect us from.

I'm asking if you have had those or not.

It's not facetious. It's very simple. Yes or no?

Have you had polio? Yes or no?

Have you had diptheria? Yes or no?

Have you had tuberculosis? Yes or no?

Have you had smallpox? Yes or no?

Not true because this would allow the abuse to be flagged up so then the children could get the vaccines and care they need.

Why? When I entered this country_ I am not British born-I had to have a mandatory screen for TB and show all my Tb vaccines certificates. I also had to show other vaccine certs for other countries.

Imagine my surprise when I got here and found that many British born people hadn't had any of these vaccines but I was assumed to be diseased! Go to any developing country; you will still see people limping around with polio. That would be the UK if the vast majority had not got vaxxed.

Do you use safety belts or is that also a case of my children, my choice? How do you feel about parents refusing medical interventions such as a blood transfusion due to their religion?