Nursery World - Coronavirus: Early years workers and teachers will not be prioritised for phase 2 of the vaccine

Sector organisations have branded it as ‘incomprehensible’ that early years workers will not be prioritised for vaccines during phase 2 of the rollout.

The Government has said it will continue to offer vaccinations by age, rather than occupation, in phase 2 of the rollout

They have argued, along with teaching unions, that nursery workers and childminders should be prioritised once the first stage of vaccinating the elderly and most vulnerable groups had taken place.

However, today health secretary Matt Hancock said that the Government would continue with vaccinating groups by age, rather than by occupation, with those aged 40-49 to start to receive their jabs, once all at-risk groups in phase 1 have been offered their first dose of the vaccine. Joint research by the

The Early Years Alliance and independent sector analysts Ceeda last month revealed that one in 10 nursery and pre-school staff, and one in 12 childminders, had contracted Covid since 1 December.

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