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Private schools were not prioritised for Covid vaccine, NHS says
20.02.2022 - 12:19 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Private schools were not prioritised in Manchester's Covid vaccination programme, the organisation responsible for the rollout has confirmed.
Four private and 10 state schools were selected for the programme to vaccinate 11 to 15-year-olds in the first four weeks of the scheme, which started at the end September and was completed within two months.
The first students to be vaccinated in Manchester were at Didsbury High School - a state-funded free school - followed by two private girls schools.
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Some state schools which were due to vaccinate their students in the first couple of weeks asked to postpone as they could not accommodate the visit.
But by November, students at all of Manchester's schools were offered the jab.
It comes after councillors were told that schools with more 'wherewithal' were the first to put themselves forward for the programme and get the vaccines.
Members of the children and young people scrutiny committee were 'shocked' by the claims that private schools received the vaccine before state schools.
They also learnt that because these schoolchildren received their first jab before others, they have also been the first to receive their second dose.
Private schools were not prioritised, the scrutiny committee was told, but the vaccine had to be rolled out 'very, very quickly' under government guidance.
Ben Aspinall, who is the Covid vaccination programme lead for Manchester's Local Care Organisation (LCO), addressed the claims at the scrutiny meeting.
He said: "We were told in September that we needed to introduce the guidance very, very quickly and we asked all the schools in Manchester when they would be
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