Meeting people indoors
You must not socialise anywhere indoors with anybody outside of your household or support bubble.
- You must not meet or host people you do not live with in private homes, unless they are in your support bubble.
- You must not socialise inside someone else's home even if they live outside of Kirklees, unless they are in your support bubble.
- You must not stay overnight away from your home with people who aren't in your household or your support bubble.
- You must not meet people in public indoor places which remain open, unless they are in your support bubble.
- You should not visit friends or family in care homes, other than in exceptional circumstances. Care homes should restrict visits to these circumstances.
When people can come into your home
- If everyone is in the same household, support bubble or childcare bubble
- To attend a birth if you are the birth partner
- To visit a person who is dying (the visitor can be someone the dying person lives with, a close family member, friend or, if none of those is visiting, anyone else)
- To fulfil a legal obligation
- For work, or to provide voluntary or charitable services
- For education or training
- For childcare provided by a registered provider
- To provide emergency assistance
- To enable one or more people to avoid injury or illness or to escape a risk of harm
- To help move house
- To provide care or assistance to a vulnerable person
- To continue existing arrangements for access to, and contact between, parents and children where the children do not live in the same household as their parents, or one of their parents.
Meeting people outdoors
You cannot meet people outside your household or support bubble in gardens and most outdoor venues.
Places where you can meet people from other households outdoors include:
- Parks, beaches, countryside, forests
- Public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)
- Allotments
- Outdoor sports courts and facilities
- Playgrounds
If you do meet other people, you must be socially distanced.
You cannot form a group of more than 6 people. This includes children of any age.
Businesses and venues, going to the shops
All pubs and bars are closed by law unless they serve substantial meals, like a main lunchtime or evening meal.
Shisha bars must not serve shisha - but may operate as cafes
Casinos, soft play areas, adult gaming centres, betting shops and car boot sales are closed by law
Gyms may open, but guidance is against indoor exercise classes taking place
Beauty salons, piercing and tattoo shops, hairdressers and barbers can remain open
All businesses must follow COVID-secure guidelines. See Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Businesses and venues that aren't closed by law can stay open in a COVID-Secure manner.
- You can still go to the shops and many other businesses.
- You can only go out with your household or support bubble.
- At least one person in your group should give their contact details to the venue or check in using the official NHS COVID-19 app.
- Nightclubs, dance halls, sexual entertainment venues and hostess bars remain closed.
Pubs, bars, restaurants and other hospitality venues which remain open must close by 10pm
- You can only go to them with your household or support bubble.
- They are legally required to take customers' contact details.
- They can only serve alcohol with a meal.
- They are restricted by law to table service only.
- Table bookings of more than six are not allowed.
- Table bookings of more than one household or social bubble are not allowed.
- They can be fined if they take reservations of more than six, do not enforce social distancing or do not take customers' contact details.
- They can sell food to takeaway after 10pm by delivery service, click-and-collect or drive-thru.
- Facemasks must be worn by all staff.
Travel
You must only travel with members of your household or support bubble
Reduce the number of journeys you make where possible.
Travel into and out of Kirklees
- You should avoid travelling into or out of Kirklees.
- But you can continue to travel into or out of Kirklees for work, education, to access youth services or because of caring responsibilities.
- You should avoid staying overnight in another part of the UK, except for work, education or caring responsibilities.
- You can travel through Kirklees as part of a longer journey.
Travel within Kirklees
- You can continue to travel to venues and amenities which are open, for work or education.
- You can still go to the shops and many other businesses.
- Plan ahead and avoid busy times and routes on public transport, and walk or cycle where possible.
Travel abroad
- When considering travelling internationally, you should look at the rules in place at your destination, the foreign travel advice and the Coronavirus (COVID-19): travel corridors .
Travel to Test and Trace centres
- Do not go to Test and Trace centres by public transport or taxi. Book a home test if you cannot walk or drive to a centre.
- Work from home if you can do.
- Public sector employees working in essential services, including education settings, should continue to go into work where necessary.
- Anyone else who cannot work from home should go to work.
- Clinically extremely vulnerable people can go to work as long as the workplace is COVID-secure.
- There is no limit to the group size when meeting for work purposes, but workplaces must be COVID-secure.
- You can travel in and out of Kirklees for work if you have to.
Schools, colleges and universities
Schools and universities remain open.
You can move home and travel to go to university.
Restrictions if you have moved into Kirklees or another very high alert area
- You must not move between your permanent home and student home during term time - subject to limited exemptions set out in law.
- You must follow the high level restrictions about meeting other people and travel.
You can commute into Kirklees or another very high alert area to go to university
But you must follow these restrictions:
- You must not meet people you don't live with in their home in the very high alert area - unless they are in your household, childcare or support bubble.
- You must not meet people you don't live with in student halls, even if the halls are not in a very high alert area - unless they are in your household or childcare or support bubble.
- You must not host people from a very high alert area in your home - unless they are in your household, childcare or support bubble.
Childcare
These people can provide childcare in private homes and gardens:
- Registered childcare providers, including nannies.
- People in your support bubble.
- People in your childcare bubble.
A childcare bubble is where someone in one household, for instance grandparents, provides childcare to a child under 14 in another household. For any given childcare bubble, this must always be between the same 2 households.
Places of worship and religious ceremonies
- You can attend a mosque, church, synagogue, temple or other place or worship, but you should socially distance from people outside of your household. If possible, prayer or religious services should take place outdoors.
- Up to 15 people are allowed to attend weddings and civil partnerships. Receptions are not allowed. Our Register Office ceremony rooms are restricted to 6 guests only. Check with other venues for additional restrictions.
- Up to 30 people can attend a funeral. 15 may attend wakes and other commemorative events. Check with venues for additional restrictions.
- Up to 10 people can sit in the chapel at a cremation service.
- Up to 30 people are allowed to attend other religious ceremonies.
- People working at these ceremonies or events are not included in the maximum group size.
Team sports and physical activity
Organised sport and licenced physical activity
- More than 6 people can take part outdoors.
- Up to 6 people can take part indoors if they can avoid mixing with others from outside their household or support bubble.
- Organised team sports for children and disabled people can continue indoors in groups of more than 6.
You must follow these rules
- The activity must be organised by a national governing body, club, registered instructor or coach, business or charity, and/or involve someone who has received an official licence to use the equipment being used.
- The organiser must conduct a risk assessment and ensure compliance with COVID-19 secure guidance.
- Team sports should only be played where the governing body has published guidance on how to do so safely.
Organised exercise classes
Gyms may open, but guidance is against indoor exercise classes taking place.
- Organised indoor exercise classes are only permitted if it is possible for people to avoid mixing with people they do not live with or share a support bubble with.
- A risk assessment must have been carried out.
Other sport and exercise
All other sports activities with people you do not live with at indoor and outdoor public venues should not take place.
What a support bubble is
A support bubble is where a household with one adult joins with another household. Households within a bubble can still visit each other, stay overnight, and visit public places together.
What to do if you were shielding or are vulnerable
The Government does not advise you should shield, but you should take these precautions:
- Reduce the number of different people you meet outside.
- Avoid travel except for essential journeys.
- Reduce the number of shopping trips or go at quieter times of the day.
- Work from home if you can.
- Vulnerable children should go to school unless advised by their GP or clinician not to.
Get in touch with COVID-19 Community Response if you need support or to offer support.
Rule of Six: Social gatherings of more than six people are illegal
- Social gatherings of more than six people are illegal in England. This means you cannot socialise in a group of more than six people.
- This limit of 6 includes children of any age.
- Schools, workplaces or COVID-secure weddings, funerals and outdoor organised team sports are exempt from this, but may still have limitations on numbers of people meeting and must be operating in a COVID-secure manner.
