This tier applies to all North East areas from 5 January
You must not leave, or be outside of your home except when necessary. You may leave the home to:
- shop for basic necessities, for you or a vulnerable person.
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go to work, or provide voluntary or charitable services, if you cannot reasonably do so from home.
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exercise with your household (or support bubble) or one other person, this should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.
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meet your support bubble or childcare bubble where necessary, but only if you are legally permitted to form one.
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seek medical assistance or avoid injury, illness or risk of harm (including domestic abuse).
- attend education or childcare - for those eligible.
Things to Remember
Friends & Family
You are permitted to leave your home to visit your support bubble (and to stay overnight with them). However, if you form a support bubble, it is best if this is with a household who live locally. This will help prevent the virus spreading from an area where more people are infected.
If you live in a household with anyone aged under 14, you can form a childcare bubble. This allows friends or family from one other household to provide informal childcare.
You must not meet socially with your childcare bubble, and must avoid seeing members of your childcare and support bubbles at the same time.
There is separate guidance for support bubbles and childcare bubbles.
Food & Drink
You can shop for basic necessities, for you or a vulnerable person.
You can also still use takeaway, click and collect, drive-through and delivery services.
Work
You can only leave home for work purposes where it is unreasonable for you to do your job from home, including but not limited to people who work within critical national infrastructure, construction or manufacturing that require in-person attendance
Education
Colleges, primary and secondary schools will remain open only for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. All other children will learn remotely until February half term. Early Years settings remain open.
Higher Education provision will remain online until mid February for all except future critical worker courses.
Essential Activities
You can leave home to buy things at shops or obtain services. You may also leave your home to do these things on behalf of a disabled or vulnerable person or someone self-isolating.
Childcare
You can continue existing arrangements for contact between parents and children where they live apart. This includes childcare bubbles.
Travel
You must not travel outside your local area, other than for legally permitted travel.
Events
Weddings, funerals and religious, belief-based or commemorative events linked to someone’s death are all subject to limits on the numbers that can attend, and weddings and civil ceremonies may only take place in exceptional circumstances.
Worship
You can leave home to attend or visit a place of worship for communal worship, a funeral or event related to a death, a burial ground or a remembrance garden, or to attend a wedding ceremony.
You should follow the guidance on the safe use of places of worship and must not mingle with anyone outside of your household or support bubble when attending a place of worship.