Exceptions to the rules

THERE are some other rare exceptions for when someone outside your household can come into your home. These are:

■Work or for volunteering to provide charitable services

■Registered childcare, education or training

■Arrangements where children do not live in the same household as both their parents or guardians

■Prospective adopting parents to meet a child or children who may be placed with them

■Supervised activities provided for children, including before and after school childcare, youth groups and activities, and children’s playgroups

■Birth partners

■To see someone who is dying

■To provide emergency assistance, and to avoid injury or illness, or to escape a risk of harm

■To fulfil a legal obligation, such as attending court or jury service

■To provide care or assistance to someone vulnerable

■To facilitate a house move

■For a wedding or equivalent ceremony and wedding receptions where the organiser has carried out a risk assessment and taken all reasonable measures to limit the risk of transmission of the virus – up to a maximum of 15 people (not to take place in private dwellings)

■Funerals – up to a maximum of 30 people. Wakes and other commemorative events are permitted with up to 15 people present (not to take place in private dwellings)

■For elite sportspeople and their coaches if necessary for competition and training, as well as parents or guardians if they are a child

■Outdoor exercise and dance classes, organised outdoor sport, and licensed outdoor physical activity

■Indoor organised team sports for disabled people, and youth sport

■Support groups of up to 15 participants – formally organised groups to provide mutual aid, therapy or any other form of support (not to take place in private dwellings)

■Protests – if organised in compliance with Covid-secure guidance