Year 10 Pupil Catch Up

 

Teenage 3-in-1 Booster and MenACWY Catch up

Dear Parent or Guardian,

The School Nursing Team will visit your child’s school on 05/02/26, to offer catch up sessions to year 10 pupils the Diptheria Tetanus, Polio (known as 3-in-one booster) and Meningitis ACWY vaccination. The NHS recommends that your child receives the vaccine to protect against life threatening illnesses. This consent form must be completed by a parent or a guardian with parental responsibility for the child. For current information about the Vaccines please click on the link School age children and young people - Public Health Wales

 

As is already standard practice in man other Health Boards across Wales, we will be piloting an Electronic-consent (E-consent) for this vaccination programme. We have worked closely with colleagues in the Health Board and Local Authority to make sure this new consent process is simple, convenient, and most importantly secure.

 

Please click on the link or scan the QR code in Welsh or English to complete the electronic consent form:

 

https://d2e9adtx5us38g.cloudfront.net/ty-gwyn-edu-centre-secondary/index.html?form=1160b7e5-2a43-4d83-b468-f20ba9102a3f

 

If you have more than one school age child in year 10, please complete one form per child. The form must be completed prior to the school nurses visiting your child’s school to deliver the vaccination. This gives our staff time to check each individual form.

We encourage parental engagement and consent wherever possible for young people. However, everyone aged 16 years and over is presumed to have the capacity to give consent themselves, unless the opposite is demonstrated. If a child under the age of 16 fully understands what is involved, they are legally able to make an informed decision to consent from the age of 13. They are advised to inform their parent/guardian. However, they have the right to not disclose this information if they wish.

If you have consented to this vaccination and for any unforeseen reason your child is unable to be vaccinated on the day of the session, you will be contacted with an alternative opportunity. Should your child receive the vaccination elsewhere please inform the school nursing service as soon as possible. CTM.SchoolNursesImmunisationTeam@wales.nhs.uk If you experience any difficulties with accessing the form, please contact the School Nursing team. Alternatively, your child’s school will also be able to support with accessing the form on a school device

 

Following the completion of our E-consent pilot, we will be sending out an evaluation form to all parents/carers, to capture your feedback on the E-consent form and your experience of using it. Immunisations your child receives will be recorded within the NHS for the purpose of record-keeping and vaccine-monitoring. To find out how the NHS uses your information, visit 111.wales.nhs.uk/AboutUs/Yourinformation/ We will share your child’s name and date of birth with the school to ensure smooth running of the session