Contact with none resident child

[erimus365]

Afternoon all,
Just wondered if anyone could shed any light on this as I seem to get conflicting info about it. I have a son who lives with his mum, brother and nanna. His brother goes to a school where there has been a positive covid test.
He comes to my house every Saturday but I'm not too sure of the current rulings if he is still allowed to. One of my colleagues from work says no as he's under 18 and lives with other people, someone else says he should be ok. Everything is so confusing and I can't seem to find a straight answer.
Thanks

 

[Alzi]

Regular parental contact is fine to proceed as usual. There was initially conflicting advice around this but the Government confirmed during the initial lockdown. Obviously if you or your son have symptoms then review this.

What advice have school given? Was it another pupil in his year group / someone he has been in contact with?

 

[Priv]

They clarified yesterday you could still see grand parents for informal childcare etc so no reason you couldn’t see your son. Just file it under childcare if asked. Unless he starts showing symptoms then don’t and make sure he isolates.

 

[Alzi]

They clarified yesterday you could still see grand parents for informal childcare etc so no reason you couldn’t see your son. Just file it under childcare if asked. Unless he starts showing symptoms then don’t and make sure he isolates.

It's just parental contact rather than childcare. Government quickly realised they'd cause chaos if usual parental contact wasn't permitted given the amount of family law involvement and parental conflict around this matter (not saying this is the case for OP).

 

[erimus365]

Thanks everyone, that's helped a lot. It wasn't someone in his brothers class that tested positive but my wife needs to be extra careful as she is a carer for her mum who had treatment for breast cancer a couple of years ago. She's terrified my son picks something up from his school or brother and passes it on. Any chest infection could have serious consequences for her mum. I'll just have to ask my son to be honest and as much as I want to see him, if he even thinks he may have symptoms then to leave it for a couple of weeks.