Island Echo has put together an easy-to-read exhaustive list of all the reasons you are permitted to leave your home address during this third national lockdown – known as a ‘reasonable excuse’.
As the Island’s leading news website, Island Echo has been inundated with questions and comments about trips outside of the home. It is important to note that if it is not included below, it is not allowed.
You can ONLY leave the house for the following reasons:
● 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
● Volunteering – you can also leave home to provide voluntary or charitable services.
● 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.
● Education and childcare – You can only leave home for education, registered childcare, and supervised activities for children where they are eligible to attend. Access to education and children’s activities for school-aged pupils is restricted. People can continue existing arrangements for contact between parents and children where they live apart. This includes childcare bubbles.
● Meeting others and care – You can leave home to visit people in your support bubble (if you are legally permitted to form one), to provide informal childcare for children under 14 as part of a childcare bubble (for example, to enable parents to work, and not to enable social contact between adults), to provide care for disabled or vulnerable people, to provide emergency assistance, to attend a support group (of up to 15 people), or for respite care where that care is being provided to a vulnerable person or a person with a disability, or is a short break in respect of a looked-after child.
● Exercise – You can continue to exercise alone, with one other person or with your household or support bubble. This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area. You can travel a short distance within your area to do so if necessary (for example, to access an open space).
● Medical reasons – You can leave home for a medical reason, including to get a COVID-19 test, for medical appointments and emergencies.
● Harm and compassionate visits - you can leave home to be with someone who is giving birth, to avoid injury or illness or to escape risk of harm (such as domestic abuse). You can also leave home to visit someone who is dying or someone in a care home (if permitted under care home guidance), hospice, or hospital, or to accompany them to a medical appointment.
● Animal welfare reasons – you can leave home for animal welfare reasons, such as to attend veterinary services for advice or treatment.
● Communal worship and life events – 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 theguidance 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.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.
● Property – you can leave your home to carry out activities related to buying, selling, letting or renting a residential property
There are further reasonable excuses. For example, you may leave home to fulfil legal obligations or to vote in an election or referendum.
Police across the country have the power to fine citizens who are outside for reasons other than those listed in this article. If you fail to comply with their order to return home, you could be arrested. The Government’s instructions are not requests – it is law.
You can be given a Fixed Penalty Notice of £200 for the first offence, doubling for further offences up to a maximum of £6,400.
What a load of shit!!! Control and fear!!!
Yep
Its very simple. If we are having record numbers of infections when most of the country is in Tier 4 then.. 1. Restrictions don’t work or… 2. They are lying about the increase in infections
or 3. people have just been ignoring the rules.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
What you mean the government would lie?!! (Weapons of mass destruction, cash for question time,expenses scandal, to name a few!)
Yep.but with all the thumbs down you get for pointing this out just goes too show how many are brainwashed by the hysteria.sad really
Freedom us a right
A few deaths in a certain group…who may die if other things anyway isnt cause too shut us all down.
Another way is the answer.we’ll come lockdown too rises yet again.gov t wats have no clue.just want control.
The whole country DONT GET SICK OR DIE FROM COVID.ITS NO WORSE THIS SUPPOSED NEW STRAIN.
But now new farce is hold off the second dose of vaccine(which is needed for full imunity)So mire can be jabbed.nutters.
USA has people who’ve caught covid after having just the 1 dose.!
Retarded or what
Yes liz very true, but the brainwashed dont know they have been. And when they finally realise that the life we did have is NEVER coming back, they will have a melt down,because it will be too dam late!
you know what is a load of “shit”. The rubbish you and your mates are spouting. Over 76,000 dead and that is with all the restrictions. What you want is for all of us to lay down and surrender. I’m glad we did not have people like you during the war, you would have welcomed the Germans with open arms.
so very well said Tom its idiots like them that have been mixing with people because they think covid doesent exist …what’s wrong with these people …take care and stay safe
You sir are the collaborator! Working with the enemy against the people!
Do your research TOM… it’s really not that difficult!
I actually quite like it. Essentially we can carry on as normal anyway. Shopping, exercise, work. The brainwashed idiots will all be at home panackiing meaning it’s nice and quiet out!
Thank you island echo.. putting all info needed into simple easy to read quick check list this has been a major help… Have forwarded link to friend and family who have been panicking
A lot of countries around the world are looking at us in disbelief, we are showing them what happens when you are led by incompetent leaders at all levels.
No Mandy, we are showing the world what happens when people continual to ignore pretty simple rules. It wasn’t rocket science but we all know who in our streets were and are probably still are going to ignore these new rules because they think they know better.
absolutely agree Big Ben too many selfish “know betters”. I’m sure other countries around the world are gobsmacked at how ignorant and stupid a larger proportion of the British are, continually saying its the government trying to control us and the virus doesn’t exist. If thats the case why are so many other countries around the world also struggling to control the virus in and out of lockdowns the same as we are? or is that all a fake on our news channels!! please people just for once do the right thing and do as your asked or if you think your so invincible and immune in some miraculous way go offer your services to the Covid wards maybe you could even save them the use of PPE by going without.
well said Nanny
What evidence do you have exactly that proves without a doubt that this is caused by a few people “breaking the rules”? Since most haven’t been. It seems to be a automatic conclusion you’ve arrived at without any justification whatsoever.
well said
We are being led by fools…
… And multiple embarrassing u-turns!!
Stay home stop the spread ,don’t go out without good reason play your part.
if you need to go out of your house to work make sure it’s absolutely necessary and not just because someone would like a new front door for example
NO !!!!!!
you sure you’re a real islander because somethings asked your brain mate…..your saying no to stop spreading this awful desease . if you lose a friend or relative to this desease you wouldn’t be saying no ,you’re an utter disgrace to humanity and you have no respect for anyone ,you just better hope that you dont get it or ask the nhs for help in any compacity ……
I cant believe some of these people on here ….in respect to humanity we must abide by the covid safety rules ,take care and stay safe
Unsurprising that a government toally lacking in credibility due to its own and its members’ behaviour has failed to convince us of the need for self-restraint.
Would a “Government of National Unity” do any better? Sure couldn’t do any worse!
Unfortunately we the poll-fodder have no opportunity to change anything, except by revolution. Pitchforks, anyone?
One thing missing off the list is MOT Test Centres…. They remain open if your vehicle is due for an MOT during the lockdown you can still get it tested there is NO extensions to MOT’s this lockdown …… dont get caught out folks