Vaccination And Your Legal Rights

In response to the MP's proposal to use child benefit as bait for vaccination, here is what I wrote to a VAN enquirer on the subject:

There is an MP who is trying to ask the government to tie in vaccine status with child benefit, so that if baby has not had all his shots, mum won't get child benefit. This has come only months after publication of the nuffield bio ethics report (where I attended the meeting). They decided not to mandate vaccines, now this particular MP has got on her high horse about it. I am not sure what will happen, but if she succeeds, it will only backfire.

I for one would gladly give up my child benefit to ensure that my child really benefits from being vaccine free and I'd never poison my child for money, and find it insulting that this MP thinks that parents would think like that. Most parents who don't vaccinate decide so because they have an injured child or they have researched it beforehand and they are educated, and those types of parents are not going to be bribed by the loss of a little money.

As for schooling, that's a lie in itself. Even if vaccines were mandated for school, which is highly unlikely given that other countries are abandoning this system, there has to be exemptions to vaccines by law, so we'd get medical, religious and philosophical exemptions to vaccines. What the school would require is EITHER a vaccine certificate OR an exemption certificate stating that little john or whatever he's called is exempt from vaccines on the grounds of philosophical objection or medical history etc. That is how they do it in the States and there are plenty of unvaccinated kids that go to school.

The other thing that parent's can do is avoid the state schooling system. School is not mandatory. A child does not have to go to school.
According to section 7 of the education act, EDUCATION is a legal requirement, but there is no law that says it has to be in a school building or by a state trained teacher. All that is required is the child recieve an education appropriate to his age and ability, so the parent could choose a different form of education, like a Steiner school or Montessori or private tuition.

I home educate all 5 of my children. I have an 8 year old and a 5 year old who have never been to school. My 5 year old is already reading quite well and reads signs on buses, and pub names etc. To be honest, I wouldn't put her in school because I disagree with the whole system. They are getting more and more like childcare centres so they can get mothers out to work till 6pm, and there are plans to have social workers permanently placed in every school. They teach them things I don't agree with and are planning on having lessons on how good vaccination is in school (because they don't need parental consent, they can take the child's consent even if under 16). The hours are way too long and they don't even get to play unhindered. There are structured activities in the playground, instead of just letting them roam free and in the one school I looked at, they put the child's name up in a rain cloud on the wall if they were 'naughty', UGH.

I know it's a bit off topic, but that MP just made me glad I don't vaccinate and I educate my children myself.

Joanna.

Vaccinations Are Voluntary, Even In Countries That Mandate Them

In the UK the law is as follows:

All vaccine's are voluntary

Having a health visitor at your home is also voluntary, you don't have to have one, particularly as they are employed to promote vaccination and policies which don't encourage breast feeding.

You don't need vaccines to go swimming, go to school or anything else.

I have taken my children swimming, to state toddler groups and state daycare centres without vaccination. All you write on the forms if they ask, is 'philosophical objector to vaccination', then put N/A through the bit that asks you to list vaccines and write 'Do Not Administer Tetanus Vaccine in an emergency' when you are asked to sign to give staff consent to provide medical treatment.

This has always worked fine for my family.

If there ever were mandates for vaccines, you could get either medical, philosophical or religious exemption to vaccines and all the school would require is a certificate saying your child is exempt.

State school is not a legal requirement, only EDUCATION is, so you also have the option of not sending your child to school or choosing a more child-centred schooling option such as a Steiner school or other type of private tuition.

If you withhold consent to vaccinate they CANNOT override you except in the case of an older child. Older children can give consent to vaccinate even if their parents have said no, and likewise, they can also refuse consent when under 16, if their parents have consented and they don't want a vaccine.
This is why classes in schools on 'immunisation' are being planned and why the NHS has vaccine information targetted at children, to pressure them into submitting to it without parental consent.