Increase Family Bubble

In my household it is currently myself, wife and 2 sons aged 3 and 9 months. My parents live nearby and my wife's parents (seperated) live 5 mins and 15 mins away respectively.

Although it's 3 other households they are all working from home and strictly following the guidelines.

However, they are really missing their grandchildren and the kids are confused why we are communicating through a glass door.

Given that we all abide by the rules I think it is essential that we can commence seeing family at each others households. This would assist with restoring some sort of normality first of all but also allow families to spend time together as I fear for the mental health of my father in law in particular.

Such households being clustered together could continue to follow guidance as part of an extended unit

Why the contribution is important

- Support
- Mental Health wellbeing
- Restoring normality to people
- Assisting with childcare for households that currently need this for when furlough is over

by GlasgowGaz on May 05, 2020 at 01:04PM

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  • Posted by ljk84 May 05, 2020 at 17:15

    Absolutely agree this must be one of the first things to come in. Allow close family members to have contact. So important for all of the reasons outlined above

  • Posted by Pragmatist May 05, 2020 at 19:57

    I agree but don't think the bubble idea in the document is practical . TTIS seems more pragmatic.

  • Posted by familyguy May 05, 2020 at 20:56

    Need to let up to 10 family members who are observing social distancing as far as possible to meet face to face in their homes at least once a month. Multi generational support is critical to get us through the lengthy time until a vaccine is found. S

  • Posted by JockCrawford May 05, 2020 at 21:15

    I have 4 members of my family within a 10 mile radius of myself, 3 of whom are 65+. We are all blessed with having gardens so it would be nice to be able to support their mental health and wellbeing more with visiting and spending time together, outside, rather than just leaving shopping in the porch once a week - which is heart breaking. Small family bubbles make sense to me as the next step.

  • Posted by C11KAT May 05, 2020 at 21:31

    My children (one autistic ) are really struggling not being able to see their gran whom they stay with weekly. Mental health is so important

  • Posted by Donald May 05, 2020 at 22:11

    The bubble idea is a potential recipe for for disaster. 6-10 people round one day another 6-10 round next day and so on. Potential another 10-100 cases.

  • Posted by CC001 May 05, 2020 at 22:13

    Put in place ASAP. We haven’t seen two of our adult children (22 and 24) for 48 days. They haven’t seen their brother (19) for the same timeframe. All 3 of their birthdays took place during lockdown. Their mums is this weekend. No family celebrations. No coming together.

    We have all been following all the rules stringently. Inter house visiting would not expose risk.

  • Posted by kinnoullhill May 08, 2020 at 18:40

    Absolutely agree. The impact this restriction has on general health and wellbeing is underestimated.
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