PROPOSED changes to the NSW Public Health Act could see unvaccinated school students banned from classrooms during disease outbreaks.
The changes would be enforced for students from Kindergarten right through until year 12.
NSW Health director of communicable diseases Vicky Sheppeard said the rules would only apply on rare occasions such as when an outbreak of measles affected high schools in 2012.
Similar rules are already in effect with public health officers having the power to exclude unvaccinated children from childcare and primary school during outbreaks.
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