Building a Safer Future for All
Supporting, informing and advocating for Clinically Vulnerable households across the UK since 2020.
Clinical vulnerability affects us all
Around 1 in 3
people in the UK, at least 20 million, were prioritised for Covid vaccination because their age or health put them at higher risk, and that was before counting children.*
All of us
are Clinically Vulnerable at some point in our lives: as babies, and later through age, illness, pregnancy or medical treatment.
Who we are
Our mission
To support, inform and advocate for those in Clinically Vulnerable households as they navigate the ongoing health risks that infectious illness poses to their health, education and everyday lives.
Clinically Vulnerable Families supports people across the UK who are Clinically Vulnerable, formerly classed as Clinically Extremely Vulnerable, or immunocompromised – and everyone who lives alongside them. We advocate for the everyday protections, from clean air to accessible voting, that let Clinically Vulnerable people live full and equal lives.
Our work
Our focus areas
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Focus area
Our work at the Covid Inquiry
Our record as a Core Participant: what we did, what we said and what the Inquiry found.
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Focus area
Voting Accessibility
How Clinically Vulnerable voters changed Electoral Commission guidance — and what still needs to happen.
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Focus area
Clean Air
Why clean indoor air matters, and how it became part of statutory school guidance.
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Focus area
Schools & Attendance
Attendance policies, medical reality, and our current survey for parents and carers.
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Focus area
Open letters
Our open letters to Government and health bodies, backed by clinicians and scientists.
Help us: understand the impact of school attendance expectations
We are gathering experiences from all parents and carers about how 100% school attendance expectations affect children’s wellbeing, health and school experience. The survey takes about 5 minutes and responses are anonymous.
Evidence & reports
Built from our community’s evidence
All of our reports are built from evidence we’ve gathered directly from the Clinically Vulnerable community, including surveys, audits and lived experience. We share it with decision-makers, regulators and Parliament.
93%
of Clinically Vulnerable households struggled to access healthcare safely during the height of the pandemic.
A third
of voters in our 2026 audit returned to in-person voting after the guidance changes our evidence helped bring about.
80%
of children in Clinically Vulnerable families were persistently absent from school in 2021–22, meaning they missed 10% or more of their school sessions.
UK Covid-19 Inquiry
Your evidence. Your experience.
Clinically Vulnerable Families has been a Core Participant in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, giving direct evidence on behalf of our members and pressing for the protections they were denied.
Stories & news
Latest from CVF
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The Inquiry called for clean air in healthcare. Six months on, where is it?
Baroness Hallett told the NHS to prioritise clean air. Six months on, the government’s response doesn’t mention it – Lara Wong on how an Inquiry…
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Why are the media still asking the wrong question about schools during the pandemic?
Lewis Goodall asked whether school closures were ‘a price worth paying’. Lara Wong argues the question itself leaves Clinically Vulnerable children out of the picture.
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Hidden in the new school allergy guidance is a major victory for clean air
New allergy safety guidance for schools quietly acknowledges what triggers attacks in the first place – and that is a real win for clean air…
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* Around 1 in 3: older care home residents (0.3 million), people aged 65 and over (11.7 million), clinically extremely vulnerable people under 70 (1.2 million) and people aged 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions (7.3 million) were prioritised for Covid vaccination: 20.5 million people in total. Children under 16 were not included, so the true number is higher. Sources: BBC News, from the UK COVID-19 vaccines delivery plan (January 2021).