Before Christmas, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended that children classed as clinically vulnerable or those living with someone with a vulnerability should be offered two 10 microgram doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - a smaller dose than is offered to adults and older children.
Speaking in the House of Commons yesterday (5 January), the education secretary confirmed that the roll-out of the jab was planned to begin by the middle of January, as primary school children returned to school following the Christmas break.
Northern Ireland has also joined the rest of the UK in offering vulnerable children the vaccine.
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