Vaccinating children should help to reduce the need for children to have time off school and should reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19 within schools. The main purpose of the COVID-19 secondary schools vaccination programme is therefore to provide protection to the children who are vaccinated and to reduce the disruption to face-to-face education this winter. Educational benefits may include:
reducing the chance of outbreaks of COVID-19 in schools
avoiding absenteeism due to COVID-19 infection and for isolation