Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS is taking to work with educational settings to deliver catch-up meningococcal vaccination programmes before the end of the 2021-22 academic year.
The impact of school closures due to COVID-19 has been mitigated by rescheduling them as soon as possible after schools re-opened. This includes the MenACWY vaccine for those in school years nine and ten. NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to work with Public Health England and regional commissioners to ensure routine childhood immunisations, including MenACWY, are delivered as planned in educational settings.