School age vaccinations

Vaccines your child should have before starting school

By the time your child reaches the age to start primary school, they should have received a range of vaccinations to protect them against serious and potentially deadly diseases.

It's important that you check that your child is up to date with their baby, pre-school and childhood vaccinations.

Check the baby, pre-school and childhood vaccination schedule.

If you are unsure if your child is up-to-date with their vaccinations, or you want them to have vaccinations they previously missed out on, contact the Immunisation team.

Providing consent for vaccination

Parental responsibility is about making decisions which affect a child's welfare. A person with parental responsibility for a child will have certain:

rights
powers and authority
duties
responsibilities

What parental responsibility covers

Factors of parental responsibility include:

where the child should live
the child's education
applying for a passport
significant movement of the child such as:

leaving the country for a holiday
leaving the jurisdiction (emigrating)

the child's name (including changes to name by Deed Poll)
protecting the child
the child's religious upbringing
consent to the child's medical treatment
consent to freeing the child for adoption
looking after the child's property (eg inheritance)
the child's burial or cremation

Changes to parental responsibility

The Children and Civil Status Law came into force on 24 November 2025. It modernised Family Law by allowing groups of parents to gain parental responsibility for their children more easily, including:

same-sex female parents
mixed-sex parents who use fertility treatments with donor sperm
parents having children through surrogacy, including single parents, mixed-sex parents, and same-sex male parents
stepparents
parents in a civil partnership

Find more information around the law changes on our Changes to the law around Children and their Civil Status page.

Parental responsibility for unmarried fathers

Children registered after 2 December 2016

Unmarried Fathers have parental responsibility if they are registered on their child’s birth certificate.

Children registered before 2 December 2016

Unmarried Fathers may not gain parental responsibility through registration if they were originally registered on their child’s birth certificate before 2 December 2016. These Fathers may have parental responsibility if:

a parental responsibility agreement is made with the Mother
a court order grants him parental responsibility
they have subsequently married the child’s Mother
they have subsequently entered into a civil partnership with the child’s Mother

More detailed information can be found on our parental responsibility page.

School age vaccinations

The table below shows the ages your child will be offered school age vaccinations and the diseases they protect against.

The age the vaccines are offered are based on evidence that shows the most effective time to protect your child. For most pupils, these vaccinations complete the childhood course of vaccinations.

You will receive information about these vaccinations and a consent form to complete when vaccinations are due.

The vaccinations are given in school by experienced school nurses who make sure nervous pupils are as comfortable as possible.

All vaccinations for school age pupils are free when the vaccines are given in school, even if you've been on the Island for less than 6 months.

If your child has recently moved to Jersey and / or missed any vaccinations, the Immunisation Team can arrange for them to be vaccinated by the Immunisation Nurses. Contact the Immunisation Team.

If a child missed their vaccination in school, vaccinations may still be obtained free of charge at monthly catch-up clinics organised by the Immunisation Team at the Outpatients Department of Jersey General Hospital. Contact the Immunisation Team.

School age vaccination programme

Age when vaccinations are given	School year	Diseases the vaccinations protect against	Brand used
Annually for all school children up to and including school year 11	All school years up to and including school year 11 annually	Flu (nasal vaccine). Children's nasal flu vaccine leaflet	Fluenz patient information leaflet
12 to 13 years old	Year 8	Cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), including cervical cancer, mouth and throat cancers and some cancers of the anal and genital areas. HPV vaccine leaflet	Gardasil 9 patient information leaflet
13 to 14 years old	Year 9	Tetanus, diphtheria, and polio booster. Meningitis ACWY. Your teenager immunisations leaflet	Revaxis patient information leaflet Menquadfi patient information leaflet

Age when vaccinations are given

School year

Diseases the vaccinations
protect against

Brand used

Annually for all school children up to and including school year 11

All school years up to and including school year 11 annually

Flu (nasal vaccine).

Children's nasal flu vaccine leaflet

Fluenz patient information leaflet

12 to 13 years old

Year 8

Cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), including cervical cancer, mouth and throat cancers and some cancers of the anal and genital areas.

HPV vaccine leaflet

Gardasil 9 patient information leaflet

13 to 14 years old

Year 9

Tetanus, diphtheria, and polio booster.

Meningitis ACWY.

Your teenager immunisations leaflet

Revaxis patient information leaflet

Menquadfi patient information leaflet

Vaccinations you should have had before going to University

If you are planning to go to university or go travelling, you should ensure you are up to date with your childhood vaccinations before you leave.

There have been outbreaks of measles and mumps in universities, and measles is circulating in England. There has also been a surge in measles cases in the European region and beyond, with deaths in adults and children caused by measles.

Before you get to university, your university will ask you to confirm you have had 2 doses of the MMR vaccine and a MenACWY vaccine.

If you haven't had all these vaccines, contact the Immunisation Team. They will help you to get protected before you go to university.

Find out more about the MenACWY vaccine and Travel vaccinations.