Sleepovers Scotland covid 19

[Abbies]

Hi does anyone know of children are allowed sleepovers at the moment? My daughter is 10 and is begging me for one and apparently all her friends are having them? Shes 10 years old so is she not included in the restrictions indoors? Also my city is teir 4 just now Is all confusing! Any advice would be amazing!

No I wouldn't
The whole of mainland Scotland is level 4 and the virus numbers are rising again especially with the new variant

I have no idea if it’s allowed but my child is the same. We allowed it about 3 weeks ago but the other parents are relaxed about the rules.

Children aged 0-11
No in-home socialising

6/2 outdoors and in public places

Indoor public places: Children 0-11 don’t count towards the total number of people but do count towards the 2 household rule

Outdoors: Children 0-11 don’t count towards the total number of people or households outdoors

www.parentclub.scot/articles/coronavirus-guidelines-children

Honestly. Ffs it's not difficult to understand. NO.

No.

Not even in lower tiers. The no visitors in private houses rule applies to all ages, even though under 12s don’t count towards the 6 people or have to social distance in other situations indoors.

There was a brief gap of about 3 days since September when it was allowed, when they just introduced tiers and worded it wrongly!!

1st paragraph in the indoors section here www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-protection-levels/pages/protection-level-4/
It’s confusing because it says they can meet indoors without social distancing, but that’s in a public place indoors. So you could do a sleepover in a shop I guess

Are you joking? We're in the middle of a pandemic and you think a sleepover is a good idea?

Children are counted in the indoor figures though. They count towards household numbers. So you could have 2 siblings stay over as that'd count as 2 households but you couldn't have several children from different households.

Your daughter could stay at a friend's if it was just her and the host but not if several were invited

Children at a local school had a sleepover
Ended up with a whole year group isolating
Parents of all involved fined
Lots of nastiness amongst the parents and pupils
Why would you op? Just why

Oopps sorry that applies to a public place not a home 🙈

Thank you all for the advice!

And to the people that clearly can't be nice i was only asking for a little advice to make sure I was doing the correct thing. No need to call someone stupid. 😊🖕

You are in a Scottish city so in tier 4 and you are thinking of a sleepover?

Please tell me this is a joke ?

And yes it was going to be her and one other girl from a single parent and only child house hold she wasn't asking for the entire street to stay

I don't live in Scotland but took me less than a minute to find the official advice. I assume you've read the guidelines OP?

Children under the age of 12 from these households do not count towards the total number of people permitted to gather indoors in a public place but do count towards the maximum of 2 households permitted to meet. For example a children’s party with 10 children from more than 2 separate households would not be allowable, but 6 adults and 4 children from 2 households could meet.

Children under 12 do not need to maintain physical distance from others indoors.

This is what I read and why I asked! I understand it says public area but I was just asking if it would be the same indoors in a house as It would only be for 2 house holds one child staying from a single parent single child house hold!

Yes thats is what I read and was little confused by

The constant changing rules can be confusing op, nothing wrong with clarifying

The link I put further up gives good guidance and mentions sleepovers specifically

Unless you are in level 0 or live in Orkney, Shetland, Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) or other islands in level 1 areas (with the exception of islands like Skye that are connected to mainland Scotland by road) or the outer Argyll islands in level 2, you can't go into other people’s homes, so your child should not be having a sleepover with a friend. However, in some limited situations where you rely on another household for informal childcare, your child may stay the night in another household.

@Timewasyesterday thank you so much for your advice and understanding it can be confusing sometimes especially when everyone seems to be doing different thing❤ are children still allowed to go out doors and play with friends? As this is not meeting indoors? Again thank you for your advice

Yes outdoors is fine

@dementedpixie brilliant thanks for the advice 😊

If your daughter is really telling the truth about other households, then please report the people concerned. Assuming these friends have been named by your DD, and this is the truth and not a fiction to try to persuade you. Which has failed.

@Abbies

No problem, we are all just trying to find our way through this. Outdoors is fine and they don’t need to distance either, of course you may want them too. I allow my 9 year old to play out but I ask him to try and distance as much as possible and don’t allow him to go into shops etc