Grandparent childcare bubbles

[pizzaeatingmonkey]

A quick one- in England.
My son & DIL use her mum for their childcare as I didn't feel happy doing it since early December 2020.
I have now been asked if I can take it up from March 8th so they can return to normal, as an addition to what her mum does. Is this legal?

Technically you can have one single adult household you can "support bubble" with and one "Child care bubble" which could be a couple.

You can socialise with the support bubble but not the childcare bubble.

If one of the "sets" of grandparents is in a single adult household it's fine. If both are couples not fine.

We have 3 lots of childcare. Nursery, my parents & my cousin who is currently furloughed.. just the reality of life. My parents can only do one day a week, we can only afford 3 days of nursery so that leaves us with a day to fill - my cousin luckily! I have an 11 month old & 3 year old. I work in customer support & I take calls all day. Like all day long, I get a couple minutes between each call. I cannot possibly work with an 11 month old, I took my eyes off her two minutes the other week & she fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom 🥴 thankfully she was fine but you get the idea!

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As grandparents, we look after our grandchild two days a week, and he goes to nursery one day (daughter works part time). We were happy to accept the risk and it's been absolutely fine. I've now been vaccinated and husband is due to have his this week. I wouldn't wanted to have missed out on our relationship with our grandchild.

@Bakeachocolatecake2day

Technically you can have one single adult household you can "support bubble" with and one "Child care bubble" which could be a couple.

You can socialise with the support bubble but not the childcare bubble.

If one of the "sets" of grandparents is in a single adult household it's fine. If both are couples not fine.

Yes this. We have a support bubble grandparent (single) and childcare bubble grandparents (couple). All grandparents are willing which is the main thing. they are now all vaccinated too which is peace of mind for me.