Clinically Vulnerable Families

24/07/2026

🙏 PLEASE CAN YOU SPARE 4 MINS

💉If you have a health condition that qualified for priority Covid vaccines due to health reasons or older age (or 'flu)

OR
👨‍👩‍👧‍👧Live with someone who does

OR
😷Wear a mask

AND
🇬🇧Live in the UK

🔁 + 💕 Thx!

This survey is open to all Clinically Vulnerable people, those in their families, and also people who wear masks in the UK. It asks about your experience of mask-wearing, the new protest law, and how these affect your daily life. Some questions ask about your health, or the health of a Clinically Vu...

19/07/2026

🚨1 in 3 people are Clinically Vulnerable.

Five years after Freedom Day, the right to take part in public life safely has not been protected.

Have concerns about wearing a mask
Attending a protest?
Accessing public spaces?

Tell us in our new IMPORTANT survey ⬇️

😷 Do you wear a mask?
Are you Clinically Vulnerable?
Or do you have a Clinically Vulnerable family member? 💙💜💗

We would love to hear about your experiences.

Complete our survey here:
https://forms.gle/MAhef3UWNUW3uuZ18

17/07/2026

🚨TODAY, the UK removed people aged 75–79 from routine Covid vaccine eligibility.

While countries like Canada continue offering vaccines to higher-risk groups, the UK keeps narrowing access.

Policy choices have consequences!

06/07/2026

🚨TWO *HUGE* WINS for children's health have just been written into DfE statutory guidance — and the media hasn't noticed them.

If your child is Clinically Vulnerable due to asthma or allergies, this changes what you can demand from their school.

New DfE statutory guidance on allergy safety in schools states: "Clean air is a core asthma control measure. Good ventilation, air quality monitoring and supplemental HEPA air filtration are essential." Schools are now legally required to have regard to that.

Translation: you can now ask your asthmatic or allergic child's school for HEPA filters, and how they are monitoring air quality. Not having a plan isn't good enough anymore.

This updated guidance exists because Benedict Blythe died from anaphylaxis at school in 2021, aged just five. His family's fight, and Benedict's Law, is why every school will soon need allergy policies, staff training and emergency adrenaline.

Buried in the same guidance is another huge win. Clean air has been named for the first time as part of a school's basic duty of care.

Clinically Vulnerable Families spent years giving evidence to the Covid-19 Inquiry on this, documenting how schools blocked parents from installing their own air filters. We then worked directly with the DfE on this guidance.

There's a second win too, on 100% attendance awards, and how they've quietly punished children with chronic health issues for years. The new guidance finally shuts that down for children with allergies and asthma.

Read our full article on both wins, who made them happen, and exactly what to ask your child's school this week:

Two years ago, members of the Clinically Vulnerable community began telling us something was wrong. People who had voted all their lives no longer felt able to vote in person. The introduction of voter ID had created a new barrier. For Clinically Vulnerable voters and others who continued to wear a....

01/07/2026

🚨 WARNING: As of Monday, wearing a mask at a protest is a criminal offence in England & Wales.

This is now the law.

This is a thread on what this means for Clinically Vulnerable people...

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 (section 157) came into force on 29 June.

Police can designate an area a "no-mask zone" for up to 24hrs around a protest.
Wear anything that conceals your identity there - a protective respirator included - and you have committed an offence.

What has changed:

Before, wearing a mask wasn't an offence. You only broke the law if an officer told you to remove it and you refused.

Now the *wearing* itself is the offence.
Masking is the crime.

"But there's a health exemption, surely?"

No. There's a health defence... and that is really not the same thing.

* An exemption means you are protected.
* A defence means you have already committed the offence - and you will have to justify yourself.

In practice:

A Clinically Vulnerable person masking to protect themselves *can* be stopped, told to unmask, and potentially arrested first then only later gets to explain why.

We shouldn't have to go to court for protecting our health!

To be fair, this isn't a blanket ban.

It applies only in police-designated zones, for up to 24 hours, in England & Wales.

But that's no use if you're Clinically Vulnerable and a zone is declared around a protest you have every right to join.

📢 🪧 The right to protest is meant to be for everyone!

This law is telling Clinically Vulnerable people:

Take part - but you must choose if you want to simply risk your health, or risk arrest (and subsequently risk your health)...which is no choice at all!!!

If you are Clinically Vulnerable - or you just believe protest should be safe for everyone - follow us, share this thread.

Also, please consider writing to your MP using our template email:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jXz5y65EmOJAsNhP5d3UNLT3hXt0ZISnLWbpcaNeJpo/edit?usp=sharing

Find their email at:
theyworkforyou.com/mp/

🙏 Thank you! 🙏

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18/06/2026

💧 We expect clean water.
💨 We should expect clean air too!

This , CVF are calling for not only safer outdoor air - but indoor air-quality standards, better ventilation and cleaner air for everyone.

👉 www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/about/clean-air 👈

09/06/2026

📢 We need your support!

CVF is gathering feedback and insights on any family that has experience with 100% school attendance targets / rewards (even if the children have grown up), and we need to hear from as many people as possible. If you can spare just a few minutes, please complete our short survey (once per child) and help us by sharing it with your friends, family, colleagues, and networks.

👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_4y3pBm8dyWrgfCT-hcoJ8de20PoVpb36ur-_whbwPQAznw/viewform

Thank you!!💕

Important Information – Please Read Before Proceeding This survey is open to all families and asks about your child's experience with attendance awards, and times your child may have attended school while unwell. Some questions ask about your child's health. It takes about 5–8 minutes per child ...

08/06/2026

Today we are publishing our 2026 'Voting Accessibility Audit', examining how the Electoral Commission's revised guidance for Clinically Vulnerable voters was implemented during the May elections.

The findings are encouraging.

Last year, our first audit found that voter ID requirements were creating significant barriers for some Clinically Vulnerable voters, particularly those who rely on high-filtration masks and other infection-control measures. Many respondents told us they no longer felt able to vote in person.

Following evidence submitted by CVF, the Electoral Commission introduced dedicated guidance for Clinically Vulnerable voters for the first time. The guidance recognised the risks associated with removing a face covering for voter ID checks and highlighted measures such as improved ventilation, staff masking and outdoor ID checks.

This year's audit suggests those changes are making a difference.

• 16 respondents told us the changes enabled them to return to in-person voting.
• A further 3 said they would have done so had they known about the changes in time.
• Where voters requested an outdoor ID check, it was almost always granted.
• Most polling stations observed had doors or windows open and recorded CO₂ levels were generally consistent with good ventilation.

At the same time, the audit found that implementation remains uneven. Awareness of the guidance varied between polling stations, reciprocal masking by staff was rarely reported, and many voters were still not aware that these adjustments existed.

The overall picture is therefore one of progress, but unfinished progress.

The most important finding is that accessibility improvements can have a direct impact on democratic participation. Respondents who had previously relied on postal voting, or felt unable to vote in person at all, reported returning to the ballot box because of these changes.

We would like to thank everyone who took part in the audit and everyone at the Electoral Commission who engaged constructively with the evidence we presented. The revised guidance was a genuine and welcome step forward.

Our report sets out the findings in full, together with recommendations on communication, staff training and implementation.

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05/06/2026

📢A vaccine for all virus variants?

AI has been used by Cambridge and Southampton uni researchers to develop a Covid vaccine that could protect against all variants.

Researchers also hope the technology could help create vaccines against other viruses.

31/05/2026

Concerns about NEET rates have put the spotlight back on the "lockdown generation".

Yet one important factor remains largely invisible: experiences of young people in Clinically Vulnerable families differed significantly from their peers.
Sky News Children's Commissioner for England