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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The regulations state:
You should stay at home as much as possible. The reasons you may leave home include:
for work, where you cannot work from homegoing to shops that are permitted to be open - to get things like food and medicine, to exercise or spend time outdoors, any medical need, including to donate blood, avoid injury or illness, escape risk of harm, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable person.
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The purpose and intent of that is clearly to provide care for or help to another person in their home. That does not fit your scenario. He did not travel 260 miles because assistance was not available in London. He did it because it was his preference and apparently when he and his wife were symptomatic. The government guidance for that scenario was clear - to self isolate in your primary residence for 14 days as a family.
This vulnerable child situation is clutching at the end of a very thin straw. There's hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children out there - none facilitating 260 mile journeys to second homes. It's also broadly irrelevant that situation has been dealt with by the police having spoken to a family member - consistent with the regulations which don't automatically lead to fixed penalties or arrests.