Are we allowed to do this?

[AnneOfCleavage]

We are wanting to book a trip to go to the theatre as a family of three but DD wants to bring a school friend or possible two that she sits next to and spends all week with at school. They are all in 6th form.

Would we be allowed to go do you think? I could book two separate areas so DH and I sit together and the three students sit together. Nothing is showing on the website for this scenario - they mention school visits and same households which covers both but I wouldn't book as a school trip obviously. Tickets are expensive so want to get it right but also tickets are selling out fast.

You'll need to specify where you are for anyone to help.

We're in tier 2. All the theatres were looking at are in tier 2 too.

The first thing is, your daughter taking friends to the theatre is not a school trip, it is definitely not.

The simple question is whether you are allowed to mix that number of households/people in your area.

I'm fairly sure that different households still need to distance anyway, so they wouldn't be able to sit right next to each other, whether they're in sixth form together or not.

No, tier 2 is no mixing households indoors. It doesn’t matter that they sit together at school.

I booked something for the north west before lockdown 2. It said only people from same households could sit together

No. You can't mix households indoors so your DD can't take her friends.

@AnneOfCleavage

Why are you saying there's nothing on the website?

The GOVT website us very clear

NO mixing indoors, with people not in your HOUSEHOLD

Her friends don't live in your house. So NO, you cannot take other people's children.

Thanks all. That is the conclusion we've come to so it will just be a family trip.

Cannot wait to support our theatres again and plan to go to as many as we can.

We’re going to the circus as a family and then with our support bubble. Another family who we are related to and don’t live with are going with their support bubble and sitting near by. Is that an option?