Not the guidance, but the law. Everyone involved is happy to proceed as follow but I don't want to do anything illegal.
Child has been told to stay home from school and self isolate following a positive case (case was in the class and also in an out of school activity the child takes part in). Child had PCR test as a close contact, which was negative. Parents are both key workers, working outside of the home. Child is too young to be left at home alone all day but old enough not to need hands on care. Grandparents (fully vaccinated and healthy) have been a childcare bubble since such a thing existed and are happy for the child to go to them while off school so parents can go to work. Parents have suggested child doing a lateral flow each day to minimise risk to grandparents, grandparents have said this is unnecessary but child and parents will feel happier that way and so do it anyway. However, this does still involve the child leaving the house each day as grandparents don't want to have to spend all day in someone else's house, so is that technically breaking the law on self isolation? Is there a loophole that because the notification came from the school rather than track and trace that it isn't actually illegal?