When you can leave home

Although the central message is stay at home, there are ‘reasonable reasons’ set out which allow a relaxation of the Tier 4 rules in certain circumstances.

These include:

■ Working when it’s not possible from home.

■ Shopping for essentials, though the advice is to stay as local as possible. Collections for any items, including food and drink, ordered through clickand-collect or takeaways.

■ Legal obligations such as attending court or jury service.

■ For formal education.

■ Parents can still take their children to school and people can continue with existing arrangements for contact between parents and children where they live apart.

■ To visit people in your support bubble, or to provide informal childcare for children aged 13 and under as part of a childcare bubble, to provide care for vulnerable people, to provide emergency assistance.

■ Outdoor exercise; unlimited exercise alone, or in a public outdoor place with your household, support bubble or one other person.

■ For any medical reason.

■ For animal welfare reasons such as attending vet services.

■ To visit someone who is dying or in a care home (if allowed under the care home’s guidance), hospice or hospital, or to accompany someone to a medical appointment.

■ Attend communal worship, a funeral or wake, visit a cemetery or crematorium, attend a wedding (numbers are limited).

■ Tradespeople can go into a household.