London: Parents here have slapped a ‘cease and desist’ legal notice on a school and threatened to sue and potentially pursue GBH charges if children are given Covid jabs without parental consent.
The letter have been signed by 17 parents of children in years seven, eight and nine at Tretherras School, in Newquay, Cornwall.
All children between 12 and 15 years are being offered the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose, and government guidance says parents are ‘asked for consent’.
But if it is refused and the child is deemed ‘competent’ then “the parent cannot overrule the decision” and the child can “legally give consent”, reported MailOnline.
However, parents at the Cornish school have shot back with a legal letter.
Parents here believe that since the clinical trials are going on and there’s ‘lack of long term data’, children should not be given vaccines.
According to the legal notice, parents want the school to promise not to use Gillick Competency on kids under 16 — where a child is considered competent in making an informed personal decision without parental consent.
It threatened to sue if the school “fails to satisfy my concerns”, in the letter on September 26.
A parent who is among the signatories in the letter, and has a 13-year-old boy, said, “We decided as a group that our children don’t need the jab. We feel there is no long-term data.
“If an adult wants to take the decision to get themselves vaccinated when a vaccine is still on trial, that’s their choice.
“But we believe children as young as 12 cannot make that decision with full awareness of the dangers.”
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