Shielding Children
Can you please produce clear guidance for parents living with shielding children and consider putting in place protections for these parents as well as for the shielded person themselves?
Why the contribution is important
The current shielding advice is all aimed at adults who are shielding, as are the letters that have been sent out to households. This makes it very difficult to fully understand what parents should do for the best for their shielded children.
The advice suggests that if you are shielding and living with someone you should be socially distancing yourself from them eg. using separate rooms, preparing meals and having them separately, keeping two metres apart in ventilated rooms when together. This is impossible to do with young children who are already vulnerable and confused by this situation .
As a parent of two shielded young children I am most concerned about what happens when works begin to reopen. As it stands, the guidance implies that our children would have to isolate from us which I don't think anyone would argue is realistic. Clearly, this puts parents like us in an impossible position.
The only way to shield a child is to shield yourself. Please can this be taken into account when preparing any guidance?
by Sunshine123 on May 05, 2020 at 07:07PM
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