Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include SEND staff in the first phase of the covid-19 vaccination roll-out.

For the first phase, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advised that the vaccine should be given to care home residents and staff, as well as frontline health and social care workers, then to the rest of the population over 50 years old in order of age. The first phase also includes those with certain clinical risk factors, which make them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. Special educational needs teachers will therefore be prioritised according to their age and clinical risk along with the rest of the population.