Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of relaxing the covid-19 lockdown restrictions to enable adults from different households to meet indoors in social care and day care settings.
The Government will continue to review the measures, assessing them to ensure that they continue to be necessary and proportionate based on available scientific evidence, which includes up to date data.
All our guidance is designed with care users in mind, to ensure that individuals are treated with dignity and respect and that their particular needs are addressed. We are reviewing our policy on visitors in social care and are looking to update our guidance shortly.
The changes that came into effect on 4 July mean people can expand their support network and meet in a group of two households indoors. People should continue to protect themselves and others following social distancing guidance when meeting people that they do not live with in order to keep people around them safe, limit the risk of the transmission of the virus and limit chains of transmission.