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Attitudes to vaccination: national surveys

Surveys of parents and young people asking for their views on vaccines and the diseases they protect against.

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From:
UK Health Security Agency
Published:
24 January 2017
Last updated:
11 March 2026
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  1. Added survey 'Women’s attitudes to vaccinations during pregnancy' section.

  2. Added 'Childhood vaccines: parental attitudes survey 2025'.

  3. Added 'Childhood vaccines: parental attitudes survey 2023'.

  4. Added 'Immunisation survey 2023: attitudes of young people and parents'.

  5. Added 'Childhood vaccines: parental attitudes survey 2022'.

  6. Added link to 2017 survey results.

  7. Added 'Childhood vaccines: parental attitudes survey 2019' and updated survey information.

  8. Renamed the collection and added the 'Immunisation survey 2019: attitudes of young people and parents' to the collection. Added a link to previous years' surveys on the UK Government Web Archive.

  9. The Annual 2018 survey letter has been added to this page.

  10. Added dates of annual survey 2018.

  11. First published.

Vaccination programmes for babies, children and young people

The national vaccination programme in England is supported and informed by surveys exploring knowledge, beliefs and attitudes to vaccines and experience of vaccine services.

The survey of parents’ attitudes to the infant programme has been running since 1991 and the first survey of teenagers and their parents took place in 2017.

The surveys explore parental attitudes to vaccines given to babies, children and young people, and the attitudes of young people themselves to vaccination, to inform planning of the programme.

These surveys were undertaken as face-to-face interviews in the home up to 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic. The surveys have since been conducted online.

See the UK Government Web Archive for earlier years’ surveys.

Vaccination programmes for pregnant women

Vaccines are offered during pregnancy to protect against infectious diseases that can cause serious illness in women during pregnancy or to newborn babies. Currently in the UK, 3 vaccines are offered routinely during pregnancy.

What parents think about childhood vaccination in England

A national survey of parental attitudes to childhood vaccinations was published in 2017. It compared results with those in earlier comparable surveys covering a 10 year period.

What young people and their parents think about teenage vaccination in England

Women’s attitudes to vaccinations during pregnancy in England

An England-wide survey on attitudes towards antenatal and infant immunisation against respiratory syncytial virus amongst pregnant and post-partum women in 2023.

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