Local lockdowns and contact

[rbe78]

This is a bit of a pre-emptive question, as my area is not yet in a local lockdown, but I worry we may be in the near future.

My DH and I live some distance from my DSDs, and travel to see them for contact weekends.

The current guidance for the NE England local lockdown states. "You must not meet people you do not live with in their home or garden, whether inside or outside of the affected areas". Does anyone know if this applies to seperated families? In the national lockdown, children of seperated parents were allowed to travel between their parents' households. Does the same still apply?

It surprises me, given the number of divorced parents that there are, and how important it is for kids to have meaningful contact with both their parents, that yet again this has not been clarified in the guidance.

If it helps, we are in a local lockdown area and still both have the kids. I'm assuming we are still allowed, as previously, unless I hear differently.

My ex is in a local lockdown area while I am not but is seeing the kids.

I think from the begging separated households with children between were considered as one household, so contact could continue. That's how Exh and I managed it anyway.

North East local lockdown still states that children who live between two homes can continue to do so, just the same as when we were in national lockdown. They've never stopped children moving between homes, hope that helps

Thanks all!

For the national lockdown my stepson made the decision to stay with his mum because his dad was a keyworker plus his mum lives in a much nicer house to be stuck in, with nicer surroundings for walks. Turns out it was a solid decision as me and his dad ended up with covid. Now, he spends his weekends at his mums but the week with us as he's back in college, and he will continue to do that even now we (and his mum, though she's in another area) are in local lockdown.