Chat. Sign. Protect.
Public Health Scotland (PHS) has this week launched a new campaign to raise awareness and encourage uptake of the vaccines offered to young people in secondary school.
All young people in S1 and S3 are offered the HPV, MenACWY and DTP vaccines which protect them against serious diseases, such as meningitis and different cancers.
The campaign encourages parents/carers and their young people to chat about the free vaccines offered, before signing and returning their consent form to school.
Schools have an important role to play in raising awareness of the vaccines and encouraging uptake. To help you with this, PHS has created a social media toolkit. This contains assets and captions for secondary schools to share on your social media channels.
- Click here to download the social media assets. You’ll be able to download these for Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, depending what social media platforms your school uses.
- Click here to view the social media toolkit. You’ll see wording which can be posted alongside the asset on your chosen social media platform to announce that consent forms have been sent home and encourage returns by your deadline.
There are also email and SMS templates available on the Public Health Scotland Marketing Resource Centre for you to adapt for your school communications.
Please could you regularly feed these social media assets into your planned activity using the hashtag #ChatSignProtect.
Please don’t forward this email on to parents or carers.
For more information visit www.nhsinform.scot/chat-sign-protect
Your support is much appreciated.