Media reports today suggested that school nurses, health visitors and GPs would deliver injections to five- to 16-year-olds at all 33,700 schools.
But a spokesman for the Department of Health told CYP Now that a decision on how an immunisation programme will work had not yet been settled on.
"We have not said that schools will deliver the vaccination programme for swine flu," the spokesman said.
"Decisions have not been made on how the vaccine programme will be delivered, and the chief medical officer has said that he expects GPs to be the bedrock of the programme."
Numbers of new cases of swine flu this week dropped to 30,000 last week, compared with 110,000 the week before.
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