Nursery World - Settings urged to get behind campaign to increase uptake of MMR vaccine in children

Early years settings are being urged to get behind a new Government campaign to increase the number of children vaccinated against MMR as new figures show there has been a ‘significant’ drop in take-up of the jab.

The UKHSA and NHS are urging parents to get their children vaccinated against MMR if they aren't already PHOTO Adobe Stock

According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the NHS, more than one in 10 eligible children under the age of five in England have not had the MMR vaccine or are partially vaccinated.

It says since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, there has been a ‘significant’ drop in the number of parents and carers getting their children vaccinated against MMR - which protects against measles, mumps and rubella - and taking up other childhood vaccines.

The first MMR dose is offered to children when they turn one and the second dose to pre-school children when they are around three years and four months old.

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