Sleepovers, allowed or not?

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Hi, please could someone let me know if sleepovers are allowed in the current lockdown rules? My 13 year old daughter has been invited to sleep at her friends house tomorrow, they have also invited one other friend so will be 3 of them in total.
We have stuck to the rules so far so I dint want to start breaking them now, I have looked online but I can’t find clarity.

Many thanks

Its 2 households indoors but still socially distanced from what I can see

Can you guarantee that the other people she will come into contact with are Covid free? Will they all remain 2m apart? All the time?
Not something I’d risk.

Ive just done a quick search.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/staying-alert-and-safe-social-distancing/staying-alert-and-safe-social-distancing-after-4-july#meeting-family-and-friends
According to this, you should only be mixing with one other household indoors, so no, as the sleepover would be with a total,of 3 households it shouldn't go ahead.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-outbreak-faqs-what-you-can-and-cant-do/coronavirus-outbreak-faqs-what-you-can-and-cant-do

We've done them in the garden in separate tents, three maximum, but indoors is a maximum of two...

Unless you are socially bubbles with the host girls family, then there will still need to be social distancing in doors. Either way it’s 2 households max, so while a sleepover is allowed one with that number of households isn’t.

@leafeater

We've done them in the garden in separate tents, three maximum, but indoors is a maximum of two...

The problem with this is when they want to use the loo etc and so they come into the house. Or decide in the middle of the night to all pile into 1 tent because "no one will notice".

At this stage I would be making my own choice and prioritising her mental health. I can't wrap my head around an 11 year old in Scotland being allowed to mix with others but a 12 year old not. None of it makes sense and while we are all wearing masks and reducing any time out or contact I am now making my own choices re who my D.C. can mix with.

I have this dilemma too.

I have suggested tents, which they loved in the past, but now they are older they want to chill in bedrooms.
I'm still undecided.

We have a spare room, but the point of sleepovers is the same room, where they are less than 1m apart.