Sioux
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Campaigner Clean Air Covid Action. Protect the Heart of the Arts. Covid 19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK. Fuel Poverty Action. Proud Mum of 4 who are 🏳️‍⚧️, ADHD,ASD and a wheelchair user youngster 🥰 vegan 🌱
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🚨 BREAKING: Labour MPs back calls to restore NHS Covid vaccines for all Clinically Vulnerable people!

After pressure from CVF members and supporters - a rapid U-turn appears to be underway.

WELL DONE!

#KeepCovidBoosters campaign a HUGE success!
Case Ref:

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Beccy Cooper MP

@drbeccycooper.co.uk>

Mon, 6 Oct 2025 at 00:50

Dear

Thank you very much for contacting me about your concerns regarding access to Covid-19 vaccination for Clinically Vulnerable people. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your email.

I am pleased to be able to confirm that the new Labour government is committed to strengthening our public health response and reducing health inequalities. Labour's recent commitments and statements have made clear that the principle of universal and fair access to vaccines particularly for those who are medically at-risk must be central to our national strategy.

In Parliament, Labour MPs have called for a rapid review of JCVI eligibility criteria and for the reinstatement of free Covid-19 vaccination for all Clinically Vulnerable people, in line with the existing approach to NHS flu vaccinations. Many have highlighted, as you do, that the logic and evidence for including all at-risk groups in annual booster rollouts are overwhelming, given the ongoing pandemic context and emergence of new variants.

Our party's manifesto commits to taking advice from clinicians and scientists and to working closely with NHS England to ensure that support for the most vulnerable is not withdrawn on cost grounds especially when this may lead to greater suffering and increased NHS pressure. There is widespread concern across Parliament about the risk of deepening health inequality and placing the cost burden of essential preventative care onto those least able to shoulder it.

Thank you again for taking the time to share your concerns so powerfully.

Best wishes,

Dr Beccy Cooper MP

Member of Parliament for Worth Parliamentary Office: House of C

Telephone: 01903 496390 betw

Clinically Vulnerable Families [LOGO]
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Today @larawong.bsky.social gives evidence at the #CovidInquiry, sharing the voices of children in Clinically Vulnerable Families.

Alongside, we launch our new report: Children & Young People in Clinically Vulnerable Families.

No child should ever choose between #educationANDlives.
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Report on Children and Young People in Clinically Vulnerable Families

Findings from national surveys exploring the impact of Covid-19 on Clinically Vulnerable children and young people in Clinically Vulnerable houseoulds.

Published October 2025

Clinically Vulnerable Families logo
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Families were threatened with fines and prosecutions, and advised to withdraw their child from the school roll if they represented a long-term absence.

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Children who were Clinically Vulnerable or in Clinically Vulnerable households were DENIED remote learning that was offered to children who were Covid positive.

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💙💜💗Yesterday was a BIG day for CVF at the UK Covid Inquiry.

After a year of work, @larawong.bsky.social’s full written statement (much longer than her oral evidence) is now public.

You can also watch her full oral evidence on YouTube.

Highlights below.

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Read the full document quoted today - under the section

Module 8 Children and Young People

www.longcovidkids.org/uk-covid-inq...
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Read the full document quoted today - under the section

Module 8 Children and Young People

www.longcovidkids.org/uk-covid-inq...

#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #CovidInquiry
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funding bodies must act now by prioritising long COVID as a major medical and research focus, enabling access to care, and ensuring children are not left behind. Without decisive action, the long-term societal cost of long COVID will continue to rise.

#COVIDInquiry
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The Lancet @buonsenso.bsky.social

The take-home message from this study is clear: long COVID is here to stay, even in children, and can be exacerbated by reinfections and sustained by high viral circulation. Governments, health-care systems, and

#LongCovidKids

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Molly said she thought it was "very important" that children and young people gave evidence to the UK COVID Inquiry.

"Too often children like me have felt abandoned and failed, our struggles minimised and ignored," she said.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #COVIDInquiry
Covid Inquiry: 'Since having Covid my life's completely changed'
A teenager has told the Covid-19 inquiry she often feels
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A study found that children who contract Covid twice are at double the risk of developing long Covid

www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

#Research #LongCovid #LongCovidKids
When children are more at risk of getting long Covid
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Thanks to the work of @cvcev.bsky.social and the Long Covid Groups with the UK COVID Inquiry there is a COVID policy for the hearings.

Here is the information:
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...
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"At that point I thought we were in a bit of a DOOM loop, of fatalism, we can't help children because they aren't going to be in school - they are not in school because we haven't helped them get there."
"All possible with the determination to make it happen"
Baroness Anne Longfield
#COVIDInquiry
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"There was no one in the decision making quad or in the cabinet table that were looking particular at children's interest, the nearest was the Education Secretary who I believe wasn't involved in many of these decisions, so children had no voice within it"

Baroness Anne Longfield
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Children "who are suffering from the impact of Long Covid, clearly have health needs and support needs that should be considered as a priority"

Our founder @sammiemc.bsky.social met with Anne Longfield - in late 2022.
#COVIDINQURY #LongCovidKids #LongCovid
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“The findings, published Tuesday, challenge the perception that Covid cases in children are “mild,” as well as the notion that re-infections do not carry the same risk of long Covid as getting it the first time.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

#LongCovid #Risk #Children
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The full video of LCK's evidence shared in yesterdays hearing for Module 8 is now available here:
Please share widely.
youtu.be/DFykYkqr5Z4
#Children #ChildrensCharity #LongCovidKids #Module8 #COVIDInquiry
Covid 19 Inquiry | Module 8 Oral Evidence of Sammie McFarland, Long Covid Kids, 01 10 2025
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Children should be given a formal apology by the prime minister after the Covid inquiry ends for the "avoidable mistakes" made by the government at the time, the former children's commissioner for England has said.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Earlier this week, @sammiemc.bsky.social , Founder
Apology needed for Covid errors, ex-children's commissioner says
Anne Longfield says ministers at the time prioritised opening pubs and theme parks before schools.
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The kids are not, and never were, OK💔

Brave testimony from @sammiemc.bsky.social on the impact of #LongCovidKids on her own, & 1000s of other families.

The gaslighting & influence of certain "public health" figures what wholly unacceptable 🤬

@longcovidkids.bsky.social

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Covid 19 Inquiry | Module 8 Oral Evidence of Sammie McFarland, Long Covid Kids | 01 10 2025
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Behind every donation is hope.
Hope for children & young people living with Long Covid.
Hope for safer schools & a healthier future.

Every donation or fundraiser makes a difference.
donate.justgiving.com/charity/long...

#FundraisingFriday #LongCovidKids #LongCovid