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<p>Based on the clinical assessment that most children are not considered to be at
increased risk of COVID-19 mortality, being a foster carer alone is not cause for
prioritisation for a COVID-19 vaccination. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and
Immunisation (JCVI) advises that only those children at very high risk of exposure
and serious outcomes, such as older children with severe neuro-disabilities within
residential care, should be offered vaccination as part of phase one. There are currently
no plans to prioritise foster parents not in the first nine priority groups in the
next phase of the COVID-19 vaccination programme.</p><p>Unpaid carers are included
in the JCVI’s priority group six, which includes individuals who are eligible for
a carer’s allowance, or those who are the sole or primary carer of an elderly or disabled
person who is at increased risk of COVID-19 mortality and therefore clinically vulnerable.
This means that if a foster parent or carer is the sole or primary carer of a child
who was prioritised for vaccination in cohorts four or six, they will be offered the
vaccination in cohort six.</p>
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