The Covid vaccination will be made available to all children aged five to 11 years old.
Following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, children who are not in a clinical risk group will now be offered the jab.
They will be offered two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine with an interval of at least 12 weeks between doses. The paediatric dose is a third of the strength of an adult dose.
