TEACHERS in Wales should be placed on the vaccination priority list, a group of Carmarthenshire councillors has said.
They are asking the council’s executive board to formally consider their recommendation, and to lobby the Welsh Government.
Members of the education and scrutiny committee agreed the move – proposed by Cllr Jean Lewis – after hearing about the challenges faced by teachers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Her proposal was that teachers should be fifth on the UK-wide priority list behind residents in a care home for older adults and their carers, people aged 80 and over and frontline health and social care workers, people aged 75 and over, and those aged 70 years and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals.