Category: Healthy Schools

COVID-19 Briefing Note 24 1 July 2022

You can make an appointment for your child’s vaccine through the National Booking Service: nhs.uk/coronavirus or by calling 119 free of charge.

Currently there are three vaccination clinics offering the COVID-19 vaccine to this age group in Haringey:

• Lordship Lane Health Centre, 239 Lordship Lane, N17 6AA – every Monday 9am – 4pm
• Bounds Green Group Practice, Gordon Road, N11 2PF 5-11 year old clinic each Friday 4-5pm
• Hornsey Central Neigbourhood Health Centre, 151 Park Road, London N8 8JD, Tuesday & Thursday – 1-9pm, Saturday & Sunday – 8am-4pm

Some walk-ins are available (except at Lordship Lane) where 5-11-year-olds as well as older siblings, or family members, can be vaccinated together at the same time. Simply check the walk-in finder website: www.nhs.uk/grab-a-jab before attending to check clinic timings.

Children aged 5-11 with no other underlying health conditions will be offered two paediatric (child) doses of the vaccine, with at least 12 weeks between doses. A paediatric dose is smaller than doses given to those aged 12 and over.

The NHS has produced a guide to COVID-19 vaccination for parents of children aged 5-11 has been produced. This can be accessed here

If your child missed out on their secondary school aged vaccines, Vaccination UK is running catch-up clinics in Haringey for Year 8: Human papillomavirus infection (HPV) and Year 9: Meningitis ACWY and DTP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio School Leaver Booster)

These clinics will be running on an APPOINTMENT ONLY basis.

To register for these clinics, contact Vaccination UK by phone: 0208 017 7925 or email: haringey@v-uk.co.uk to make an appointment.

You will need to complete a consent form before your appointment. Link to e-consent form here: https://www.schoolvaccination.uk/e-consent-forms

Parents whose children have missed their routine childhood vaccinations, have been urged to get their children vaccinated after traces of the polio virus have been identified in a small number of wastewater samples, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). The virus has been found in samples in the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works in east London between February and May, suggesting that there may be some spread of the virus in the community. The virus has only been detected in sewage samples and no cases of polio have been identified based on people developing symptoms. The risk to individuals and to the borough of Haringey as a whole, is still low.

The UK is considered by the World Health Organization to be polio-free, with low-risk for polio transmission due to the high level of vaccination across the population. However, vaccine coverage for childhood vaccines has decreased nationally and especially in parts of London over the past few years, so UKHSA is urging people to check they are up to date with their vaccines. Poliovirus has the potential to spread, particularly in communities where vaccine uptake is lower. On rare occasions it can cause paralysis in people who are not fully vaccinated.

Many children have missed vital routine vaccinations over the past couple of years, due to the pandemic, putting them at risk of preventable diseases, including polio. The good news is that it’s not too late to protect your child. If you are unsure whether your child is up to date with their vaccinations, please check their Red Book, or contact your GP.

The Polio vaccine is administered in the UK as part of the 6-in-one vaccine at 8 weeks, 12 weeks and 16 weeks old, protecting your child against six serious illnesses. In addition, the 4-in-1 pre-school booster given to children at the age of 3 years and 4 months, includes a booster vaccine dose against Polio, Tetanus, Diphtheria and Whooping Cough. Combined, these routine vaccinations offer very effective protection to your child against serious illnesses.

All vaccines used in the UK have been approved by the UK’s independent medicines and vaccines agency.

Find out more: www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/nhs-vaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/

If your child missed out on their secondary school aged vaccines, Vaccination UK is running catchup clinics in Haringey for Year 8: Human papillomavirus infection (HPV) and Year 9: Meningitis ACWY and DTP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio School Leaver Booster)

These clinics will be running on an APPOINTMENT ONLY basis.

To register for these clinics, contact Vaccination UK by phone: 0208 017 7925 or email: haringey@v-uk.co.uk to make an appointment.

You will need to complete a consent form before your appointment. Link to e-consent form here: https://www.schoolvaccination.uk/e-consent-forms

You can make an appointment for your child’s vaccine through the National Booking Service: nhs.uk/coronavirus or by calling 119 free of charge.

Currently there are three vaccination clinics offering the COVID-19 vaccine to this age group in Haringey:

1. Lordship Lane Health Centre, 239 Lordship Lane, N17 6AA – every Monday 9am – 4pm
2. Bounds Green Group Practice, Gordon Road, N11 2PF 5-11 year old clinic each Friday 4-5pm
3. Hornsey Central Neigbourhood Health Centre, 151 Park Road, London N8 8JD, 7 days a week, 9am-6pm

Some walk-ins are available (except at Lordship Lane) where 5-11-year-olds as well as older siblings, or family members, can be vaccinated together at the same time. Simply check the walk-in finder website: www.nhs.uk/grab-a-jab before attending to check clinic timings.

Children aged 5-11 with no other underlying health conditions will be offered two paediatric (child) doses of the vaccine, with at least 12 weeks between doses. A paediatric dose is smaller than doses given to those aged 12 and over.

A guide to Covid-19 vaccination for parents of children aged 5-11 has been produced. This can be accessed here

We will be working with you to ensure that a voucher scheme in some guise will be made available to our families for the summer holiday period. Detail on this will be sent directly to Heads under separate cover.

The Holiday Activity Food Programme (HAF) Programme is a holiday and food programme that has been running in our borough for several terms, including last summer and Easter 2022. It was designed to support disadvantaged families during the school holidays by providing healthy meals and enriching activities to young people. The proposed summer HAF programme is being finalised and offers approximately 2,064 places a day across the holiday camps in our schools.

This is a total of 33,024 places across the four weeks (16 days). To increase our reach among eligible children/young people we will continue to align the HAF programme with our community holiday programme which offers an extensive holiday provision for all, mostly free of charge. Last summer’s programme was a resounding success and offered innovative and varied sports and other activities and really good food to thousands of our children and young people; thank you to all those schools who supported the provision. Further details to follow shortly.

The UKHSA e-mailed all settings directly on Monday 23 May, to provide further details about what you should do with excess COVID-19 testing equipment.

If you have four or more unopened, undamaged cartons of either LFD ATS (onsite) test kits or LFD self-test kits that you would like to return, you should email UKHSA to arrange collection. (A carton means either 24 boxes of 25 ATS test kits or 56 boxes of 7 self-test kits.) If you have any queries about how to return or manage your excess stock, please email UKHSA or call 119 for advice and support.

Contact the Public Health team here: publichealth@haringey.gov.uk.