Rejected petition Give all children in the 5-11 age group the option to have a Covid vaccination

We should allow all the children in this age group the chance to be vaccinated as soon as possible.

The vaccine is proven to protect against severe disease, and reduces the chance of long Covid. We need to offer our children a jab so that they are protected and are able to attend school safely.

More details

The EU and USA have been vaccinating this age group for some time, and the MHRA gave safety approval for UK children in December - but despite this the jab has not yet been made available to all children in the UK.

Omicron may be more severe than previous variants for children. There have already been many hospitalisations of children with Omicron with an unknown long term health impact. With schools reopening, the inability to access vaccines is placing UK children at unnecessary risk.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/601680

The UK regulator approved use of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in 5 to 11-year olds in December 2021: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-regulator-approves-use-of-pfizerbiontech-vaccine-in-5-to-11-year-olds

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 7 January 2022
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.