Protect your child from serious diseases
- Type
- Resources
- Published
- 28 May 2025
- Children
- Immunisations
Description
This guide is for parents and carers of children up to the age of 3 years and 4 months. It provides information on the routine immunisations that are offered to help protect them from serious childhood diseases. It describes these diseases and explains why young children need protection against them. It also answers some of the most common questions about immunisations. The updated version illustrates the routine immunisation schedule for children born on or after 1 July 2024 and can be issued to parents from June 2025.
This publication is also available in Easy read, British Sign Language (BSL) and audio on NHS inform.
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