Rejected petition Include teachers in priority group for the vaccine before schools return

Healthcare and social care workers are being prioritised to receive the vaccine, so why not teachers? Teachers are being expected to return to schools on 8th March with little to no PPE and no guarantee that they will receive the vaccine before others their age who are working from home.

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It is unreasonable and outrageous to expect teachers to return to school without adequate protection. We know that the rise in cases between September and December was linked directly to schools re-opening, so it is ludacris to expect teachers to return with no protection and no promise of a vaccine. If counsellors and social workers working from home can be given the vaccine, why can’t classroom teachers? Evading this responsibility puts teachers lives directly at risk.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/572419
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/554316

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

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Date submitted 23 February 2021
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