School-Aged Immunisation Service
Resources
The immunisation team delivers childhood Immunisations to children at school in Birmingham and Solihull, offering protection against disease.
Immunisation resources
This leaflet contains questions parents and carers often have before they immunise their children, with answers derived from qualified health professionals, in an effort to reduce vaccine hesitancy and to increase the uptake of immunisations.
School Aged Immunisation Service: Your Questions Answered leaflet
Parents and professionals who work with children and young people are urged to support the school-age immunisation service by sharing resources in your networks. Parents or carers can book vaccine sessions in clinics via the telephone numbers in the leaflet.
Watch a video written and performed by young people. We also have shorter information films about the flu, HPV and DPT-Men vaccines.
BCG
BCHC began administering the BCG vaccine to newborn babies in Birmingham and Solihull in April 2022.
The change to community immunisation teams (from providers of maternity and tuberculosis service providers) follows Public Health England (PHE) advice that babies are to be offered screening for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) as part of the newborn blood spot test offered five days after birth.
As babies found to have SCID are unable to have live vaccines, PHE has advised that all reasonable efforts should be made to ensure a 'not suspected' SCID screen result before vaccinations are administered.
Parents or carers of babies whose SCID test is 'not suspected' will be invited to take their baby to an immunisation clinic near their home within about four weeks.
More information about the BCG vaccine
Flu
BCHC's immunisation team is responsible for administering the flu vaccine in primary and secondary schools in Birmingham and Solihull.
Downloads and links
- Birmingham Schools Flu Immunisation information booklet and consent form
- Flu: 5-reasons to vaccinate your child
- Protecting your child against flu
- NHS Flu vaccine
HPV
Girls and boys aged 12 to 13 years (born after 1 September 2006) are offered the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as part of the NHS vaccination programme.
The HPV vaccine helps protect against cancers caused by HPV, including:
- cervical cancer
- some mouth and throat (head and neck) cancers
- some cancers of the anal and genital areas
It also helps protect against genital warts.
- HPVWISE: accessible information, including a section specifically for teenagers.