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Childcare may be refused by the Chamber of Unvaccinated Children | NOW

Childcare centers may refuse unvaccinated children if it is up to the House of Representatives. The proposal from D66 MP Paul van Meenen receives a large majority with the support of VVD, PVV, GroenLinks, PvdA, PvdD, 50PLUS, DENK, FVD, Van Kooten-Arissen and Van Haga, appears Tuesday.

Childcare centers are allowed by law to report whether they refuse children and employees who are not vaccinated against mumps, measles and rubella (BMR).

RIVM recently announced on the basis of provisional figures that the number of vaccinated children – the so-called vaccination rate – is increasing for the first time since 2012.

Slightly more children were vaccinated against mumps, measles and rubella (BMR). This happens from fourteen months; younger babies therefore run the risk of being infected for that period when they are in an environment with unvaccinated children.

The vaccination rate is officially at almost 93 percent, just below the 95 percent limit set by the WHO health organization to eliminate the diseases. According to RIVM, the Netherlands is therefore not in the danger zone.

For a long time, the majority of the Chamber before the law was uncertain

For a long time it was uncertain whether the D66 proposal would receive sufficient support. The vote was actually on the agenda last week, but more time was needed to get enough parties on board.

For example, the PvdA asked for an exception for children who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons: they cannot be refused. GroenLinks wanted an evaluation of the law within two years. These points have now been added to the law.

If this voting ratio is taken over by the parties in the First Chamber, then there is just not a majority in sight. In the end, senators make their own, independent assessment.

SP and VVD want stricter vaccination rules

The PvdA would prefer to join the VVD and SP initiative. Those parties are working on their own legislation that goes beyond that of D66, namely that vaccination becomes compulsory at all daycare centers as soon as the vaccination level becomes too low.

A report by a committee of inquiry into the vaccination issue also appeared before the summer. One of the recommendations was, if the vaccination rate would fall too far below the “critical lower limit”, to make vaccination compulsory for admission to childcare. It is not known what percentage has that limit. The cabinet is currently still investigating such a ban.

Opponents of compulsory vaccination, in particular the Christian parties CDA, ChristenUnie and SGP in the Chamber, fear that non-vaccinated children will find themselves in one place too much, which increases the risk of infection in specific places.

For these parties, “freedom of religion” and “the right to physical integrity”, as the ChristenUnie puts it on its own site, are also important reasons for voting against an obligation. “Our body is not from the government,” says the ChristenUnie.

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