- Two fifths of teachers (40%) say they always receive the flu vaccination.
- The most common reason for receiving it is to avoid passing the flu onto others (50%)
- Teachers report the COVID-19 pandemic as having a significant impact on their efforts to facilitate the national childhood immunisation programme, particularly in relation to flu.
- There is a high level of support for an extension of the national childhood immunisation programme for flu to cover all pupils under the age of 18 in the 2020-21 academic year