Lockdown - separated parents

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You should not be meeting family members who do not live in your home.

Does this mean my child should not be visiting their other parent who lives elsewhere?

@LochJessMonster

Thank you for pointing the right direction to this document, very helpful.

What if you aren’t a few miles apart? What if it’s four or five hours? I really DON’T think it’s in anyone’s interest for children to be shuffling between regions.

@LochJessMonster
Thank you xx

Thank you for this.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-coronavirus-children-separated-parents-21743291?utmsource=facebook.com&utmmmedium=social&utmcampaign=mirrorrmain

I am still really confused about this. Lots of the advice is contradictory. The official government page still says:

..even when doing these activities, you should be minimising time spent outside of the home and ensuring you are 2 metres apart from anyone outside of your household.

How can you stay 2 meters apart from your kid?

We have a 4 month old baby in our home, I’m nervous about DP’s son still coming here at weekends. Yes babies aren’t high risk supposedly but babies ARE getting it, any every ounce of my being wants to protect him (I also have asthma).

There are people still out at work in both households so still a risk of it being passed back and forth. All measures to date try to stop kids mixing too, and it’s pretty clear about unnecessary social contact.

So I just don’t understand why it would be ok for kids to go back and forth? I understand if other kids aren’t involved and the risks are very low then fair enough - or if it’s necessary because one parent is a keyworker etc. But surely we should still be avoiding unnecessary mixings of households (if It’s possible in your situation?).

ensuring you are 2 metres apart from anyone outside of your household. How can you stay 2 meters apart from your kid?

It means keep 2 meters away from people who don’t live with you, it doesn’t mean you have to stay away 2 meters from your children/partner/other relatives that live with you.

My partners son doesn’t live with us, he visits every second weekend for 24 hours. Come Saturday he won’t have been in our home for 2 weeks.

Where parents do not live in the same household, children under 18 can be moved between their parents’ homes

www.gov.uk/government/publications/full-guidance-on-staying-at-home-and-away-from-others/full-guidance-on-staying-at-home-and-away-from-others

Yes but that contradicts everything else the government says (& common sense) about not mixing households / having visitors / letting kids play together. It also says children “can” be moved between households. Not that they should.

It’s not clear. BBC article says the same, further guidance is expected.

This to me makes sense.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2020/03/24/susanna-reid-calls-move-kids-parents-shut-dr-hilary-coronavirus-lockdown-12446408/amp/

*It’s really clear. The less people any individual is in contact with, the less likelihood of the virus being passed on.

‘The less passage between one home and another the better. If there is a medical need or someone is a key worker clearly there needs to be movement.’*

Probably not the most reliable doctor but I’d trust that advice rather than a hastily added footnote on a document rushed together by the bumbling government at the last minute, with none of the implications considered or addressed.