"Introduction
6. ... As per the Inquiry’s Rule 9 request, this statement covers our concerns about the development and approval of vaccines during the pandemic, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommendations on eligibility and decisions taken by policymakers concerning the vaccination of children. It also covers vaccine safety issues particularly pertaining to children, including post-marketing surveillance.
7. It also covers our concerns about the ethical and legal aspects of promoting vaccination of children with the aim of protecting adults.
8. We have provided evidence for a Judicial Review into the vaccination of 12-15-year-olds and also a separate legal challenge for 5-11-years-olds...
Overview
a. We contend that there was never an emergency regarding the health of children.
b. The pandemic management, in terms of fear messaging, school closures, masking of children and enforced social isolation was disproportionate to any risk to children from SARS-CoV-2 and set the scene for a demand for an unnecessary vaccination.
c. Given the lack of risk, there was never any justification for authorising or recommending the use in healthy children of novel technology gene-based vaccines with no long-term safety data.
d. To give such vaccines to children for the possible protection of vulnerable adults is a clear breach of our ethical duty.
The statement below sets out our detailed rationale and evidence for the above."
"The Children’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Council is an independent group of health professionals and scientists who came together specifically to challenge the government advice on the benefits and risks of covid vaccines for children... Individuals held differing views on the use of covid vaccines in the elderly and vulnerable, but were and are united in our shared concerns that Covid-19 vaccines were not appropriate for healthy children."