Immunisation for babies and children

Immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Immunisation is a critical service and we are making some changes to the way we conduct our public sessions to ensure we can keep our community and our staff safe.

Bookings

You will need to book into a public immunisation session

Please do not attend an immunisation session if you or your child is unwell in any way

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For fact sheets on the diseases vaccines protect against, visit the Better Health Channel.

Immunisation history statements for children

By law, parents or guardians must provide an Immunisation History Statement when you enrol your child in any childcare service, kindergarten or primary school in Victoria.

The only documentation that can be used is a current Immunisation History Statement provided by the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). The statement shows whether a child is up to date with their immunisations and includes details of the vaccines they have received.

For more information go to Better Health Channel

Immunisation and Family Assistance payments

To meet the requirements for family assistance payments, all of your children younger than 20 need to do one of the following:

meet the Childhood schedule on the Department of Health’s National Immunisation Program Schedule
be on a suitable catch up schedule in line with the Department of Health’s current Australian Immunisation Handbook
have an approved medical exemption recorded on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).

For further information visit Services Australia

Immunisation and pregnancy

Some infectious diseases can cause serious harm to pregnant women or their unborn babies. If you are planning to have a baby, try to get up to date with your routine immunisations before you become pregnant.

All women should receive influenza and whooping cough vaccines during every pregnancy.

For more information visit Better Health Channel