Rules about support bubbles?

[FancyAnOlive]

I'm a single parent and I want to make a support bubble with my oldest friend - she doesn't live near me though, she's 60 miles away and we usually visit and spend weekends/lots of time in the holidays together. Are we allowed to do this still? I think we're allowed to stay overnight but bubbles are supposed to be local. I don't have any very close friends near where I live - I'm quite isolated with two autistic kids.

This should be the link to Govt regs on Support Bubbles...

www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-support-bubble-with-another-household#history

Lifted from that...

Once you’re in a support bubble, you can think of yourself as being in a single household with people from the other household. It means you can have close contact with that household as if they were members of your own household

Support bubbles are designed so you can act as though you are part of the household and I can't see anything in the updates that changes that, so I don't see why you can't stay over.

Try to limit travelling far to make a support bubble. The government recommends that you form a support bubble with a household that lives locally wherever possible. This will help to prevent the virus spreading from an area where there might be a higher rate of infection

TRY to limit. But you don't have a closer/better option, so you're not doing anything wrong.

Take the help & support you can give each other x

Thank you both! I felt a bit despairing at the thought of not seeing her.

It also says you shouldn't change your bubble and there was nothing about proximity when they were first introduced and so mine is my mum who is 150 miles away and therefore no support at all but I cant now fire her without offending her and they say dont change