Am I allowed to see my support bubble....

[bigmistake1]

Quick question as I can't work it out from the guidance. I'm a single parent and my mum, who also lives in her own, is my support bubble for childcare purposes. We're also her support bubble as she got really depressed in the last lockdown when she couldn't see anyone.

We moved into a new house yesterday and have no internet or tv ( engineer coming tomorrow). Would it be ok to take my children around to my mum's so they can access WiFi? And I can get some unpacking done. She lives a 10 min walk away in same town.

Yep, you are always allowed to see your support bubble.

If she's your support bubble, i.e. the one other family you are allowed to treat as the same household (allowed for you as you're single, or also allowed as she is) then yes, no problem, you can stay at hers.

If you have a different support bubble as a single adult, and she is actually your childcare bubble, then technically you shouldn't go to hers but your child could.

Childcare bubble? So you can go out to work not so they can go on WiFi!

As long as neither of you are support-bubbled with anyone else

Absolutely fine.

Technically yes

But given the current situation is it wise? Does your mum go out shopping? Do you? Your children go to school?

Contact will increase risk. I'd think twice.

Whitty said no meeting with family and friends ‘unnecessarily’

Thanks all. Yes, we are only in the one bubble as she is.

Thought it was ok, just being ultra cautious as I had the police at my door last night as one of my new neighbours reported me to the police as a coronavirus breach as the cottage we've moved into used to be a holiday cottage and they thought I had come on holiday ( I haven't, just urgently needed somewhere to live while my new build house completion is delayed.

If any of you get covid then that’s it the bubble stops. What will you do for childcare if your mum can’t have them? Extra visits is extra risk

@bigmistake1

Thanks all. Yes, we are only in the one bubble as she is.

Thought it was ok, just being ultra cautious as I had the police at my door last night as one of my new neighbours reported me to the police as a coronavirus breach as the cottage we've moved into used to be a holiday cottage and they thought I had come on holiday ( I haven't, just urgently needed somewhere to live while my new build house completion is delayed.

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Yes you can, you're treated as one household

Yes. My mum is my support bubble and we just live as we are one household.

If you're in a bubble you can act as if you are one household so it's s fine for her to have your kids while you sort out the house

@BridgertonBride

If any of you get covid then that’s it the bubble stops. What will you do for childcare if your mum can’t have them? Extra visits is extra risk

If one of them gets covid they all isolate so OP wouldnt need childcare

@dementedpixie

If you're in a bubble you can act as if you are one household so it's s fine for her to have your kids while you sort out the house

But less risky if she doesn't.

@BridgertonBride

If any of you get covid then that’s it the bubble stops. What will you do for childcare if your mum can’t have them? Extra visits is extra risk

What extra risk? It's no different from if they were part of the same household.

I've also not seen anything that says the bubbles stops if one of you is symptomatic. That wouldn't make any sense. If someone in your support bubble gets symptoms/positive result then you behave as you would if someone in your household did.

If someone in your house gets it you stay in one room away from everyone else!!

@IK14

If someone in your house gets it you stay in one room away from everyone else!!

But that wouldn't be possible as a single parent of two young children

If someone in your house gets it you stay in one room away from everyone else!!

And shit in a bucket?

Back in the real world, most households don't have the luxury of such large houses (or such obedient children) to make this possible. So they do the best they can.

No. But if mum got it she'd not go surely?!

Or if I child got it? And I'd have to be pretty incapable before I let my mum near.

@IK14

If someone in your house gets it you stay in one room away from everyone else!!

When you're a single parent of young children that is impossible.

It's fine OP. Your support bubble is like your household. When Whitty said no meeting unnecessarily with family and friends I think he meant don't meet people outside the home who aren't in your bubble.

@IK14

No. But if mum got it she'd not go surely?!

Or if I child got it? And I'd have to be pretty incapable before I let my mum near.

Nobody said she was sending her child while her mum has tested positive for covid.

Shes asking whether on this occasion she can take her children to her mum's (who is in a bubble with her) and yes, its allowed.

Yes, you can always see your bubbles.

It's necessary to have WiFi. Can't wait til tomorrow.

If bubbles are banned this will be why.

The whole point of a bubble is so you can act as one household. What's your problem with that?