Boris Johnson announced on Monday that from Wednesday next week the country would return to its pre-lockdown tiered system restrictions, which will differ slightly from earlier rules.
As well as changes to the hospitality sector, rules regarding who can form a support bubble are also changing, allowing more people to be part of a support bubble than in previous restrictions.
A support bubble is formed when two households can join together exclusively and act as though they are one household.
According to the government website ‘Once you’re in a support bubble, you can think of yourself as being in a single household with people from the other households.
‘It means you can have close contact with that household as if they were members of your own household,’
The present rules allow you to form a support bubble if one of the two households is a ‘single-adult’ household.
However, this will be expanded from 00:01 on Wednesday 2nd December and will allow parents with babies under the age of one, as well as those who live with a child under five with a disability that needs continuous care, to form a support bubble with another household.
- You are the only adult in your household (any other members of the household having been under 18 on 12 June 2020) or are the only adult who does not have a disability that needs continuous care
- You have a child under one
- You live with a child under five with a disability that needs continuous care
Exceptions to the rules for support bubbles will apply regardless of what tier Swindon is in.
