'We should go further, offering people who comply with testing and isolation requirements a “freedom pass” that removes the requirement to follow lockdown regulations.'
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Seriously:
You must not leave or be outside of your home unless where permitted by law. This may include:
You can leave home to buy things at shops which are permitted to open. For instance to buy food or medicine, or to collect any items - including food or drink - ordered through click-and-collect or as a takeaway, to obtain or deposit money (e.g. from a bank or post office), or to access critical public services (see section below).
Fulfilling legal obligation
You may also leave home to fulfil legal obligations.
Moving home
You may leave home to carry out activities related to buying, selling, letting or renting a residential property.
Education and childcare
You can leave home for education. This includes schools, universities or formal education provision.
You can also leave home for registered childcare and supervised activities forchildren that are necessary to allow parents or carers to work, seek work, or undertake education or training.
Parents can still take their children to school, and continue
existing arrangements for contact with children where they live apart.
Meeting others and care
You can leave home to exercise outdoors or visit an outdoor public place (see section 3).You can leave home to visit people in your support bubble indoors or outdoors, including to stay overnight with them.
You can leave home to meet outdoors with one other person, who is not
in your support bubble. If doing so, you can be accompanied by a child
under 5 or a disabled person who requires continuous care.
You can leave home to provide informal childcare for children aged 13 and under as part of a childcare bubble.
You can also leave home to:
- provide care for vulnerable people
- provide emergency assistance
- attend a support group (of up to 15 people)
- for respite care where that care is being provided to a vulnerable
person or a person with a disability, or is a short break in respect of
a looked after child
Medical reasons, harm and compassionate visits
You can leave home for any medical reason, including to get a
COVID-19 test, for medical appointments and emergencies, to be with
someone who is giving birth, to avoid injury or illness or to escape
risk of harm (such as domestic abuse), or for animal welfare reasons
such as to attend veterinary services for advice or treatment.
You can also leave home to visit someone who is dying or someone in a
care home (if permitted under care home guidance), hospice, or
hospital, or to accompany them to a medical appointment.
You can leave home to attend a place of worship for individual prayer, a
funeral or a related event for someone who has died, to visit a burial
ground or a remembrance garden, or to attend a deathbed wedding. A list
of what constitutes a ‘reasonable excuse’ for leaving home can be found
in the regulations.
You can exercise or meet in a public, outdoors space with people you live with, your support bubble, your childcare bubble, or with one other person.
You can exercise or visit a public outdoor space:
- by yourself
- with the people you live with
- with your support bubble
- or, when on your own, 1 person from another household
Public outdoor places include:
- neighbourhood streets, parks, beaches, and parts of the countryside that are accessible to the public
- public gardens and grounds (whether or not you pay to enter them)
- allotments
- outdoor playgrounds
There
are still circumstances in which you are allowed to meet others from
outside your household or support bubble in larger groups, but this
should not be for socialising and only for permitted purposes. A full
list of these circumstances can be found in the regulations and includes:
- for work purposes (including in other people’s homes where necessary, such as for nannies, cleaners or tradespeople
- for providing voluntary or charitable services
- for formal education or formal training
- to provide emergency assistance and to facilitate a house move
- to fulfil legal obligations or participate in legal proceedings
- support groups that have to be delivered in person can continue
with up to 15 participants where formally organised to provide mutual
aid, therapy or any other form of support - but they must take place at a
premises other than a private home - ‘support group’ includes, but is
not limited to, support to victims of crime, people in drug and alcohol
recovery, new parents and guardians, people caring for those with
long-term or terminal illnesses, or who are vulnerable, people facing
issues relating to their sexuality or gender, those who have suffered
bereavement, and vulnerable young people, including for them to meet
youth workers
- parent and child groups can continue where they provide support to
parent and/or child, and children under 5 will not be counted within
the 15 person limit - meaning parents and carers can attend such groups
in larger numbers.
- funerals of up to 30 people and some weddings can continue, as set out below
There isn't much remaining that you are not allowed to do...