There is nothing in this for me that is different to the same age children getting contraception etc or having other control over it.
I think it is different, though? I'm assuming the child needs to go to their GP before starting on the pill, who will check their family medical history before prescribing? And (if my daughter felt the need to go herself) the GP would see a history of clots U45 and think about prescribing something else?
I'm assuming she would also be told the side effects, interactions with different medications etc? And they would check she was mature enough to understand this?
But even if none of that happened, the guidlines are:
You must determine whether the patient is Gillick competent - that is, are they capable of giving informed consent to medical treatment without the knowledge or permission of their parents?
Factors that need to be taken into account when assessing those under 16 include:
<strong>The patient understands your advice.</strong>
Considering the amount of posters on here I've read saying 'it's no different from the flu jab which I get every year', I'd question if anyone is really understanding what's going on.
That was mostly a joke, but what advice is a doctor going to give them when Pfizer themselves are not expected to have the answers on safety and efficacy for 12-15s until the end of 2023?
Do the doctors (or HCP in schools) know something Pfizer and the JCVI don't?
<strong>They cannot be persuaded to tell their parents or allow you to do so.</strong>
Fair enough.
<strong>They are very likely to begin or continue a sexual relationship with or without contraception.</strong>
Not really relevant and I suppose that would only translate to 'they are very likely to catch covid with or without the vaccine' which is probably true when you consider breakthrough.
<strong>Their mental or physical health or both are likely to suffer if contraception is not provided.</strong>
Possibly true for higher risk children, but they should already be approved. Not the case for physical health.
And if mental health is suffering that's 100% the fault of the government, the media, and wider society for A) imposing more unnecessary and illogical rules which they know is detrimental to mental health and B) hyping this up to levels of mass-hysteria so we believe these rules are necessary. We cry out for them.
I always revert back to the shocking statistic that in July 2020 (a few months into the pandemic) a survey showed those questioned believed 10% of Scotland had already died. Half a million people, poof 
! Just like that.