Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support is being offered to families where one member of the household is shielding and another is an NHS staff member working with covid-19 patients, and where self-isolation isn’t possible within the household.

People who live in a household with someone that is considered clinically extremely vulnerable do not have to shield themselves. Shielding advice is only for the individual considered clinically extremely vulnerable.

Current Government advice is that everyone should work from home where possible. Where this is not possible, those not considered clinically extremely vulnerable can continue to attend the workplace. All employers, including the National Health Service, are required to take steps to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19 in the workplace and employers should be able to explain to employees the measures they have put in place to keep them safe at work.