The guidance, ‘Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak’ now states that for clinically extremely vulnerable staff: ‘If an area is at local COVID alert level medium, high or very high, and clinically extremely vulnerable staff are unable to work from home, they should still attend the setting as the workplace should be COVID secure, where the system of controls in this guidance is implemented in line with the setting’s own workplace risk assessment.’
The Government may advise more restrictive formal shielding measures for the clinically extremely vulnerable in the very highest alert areas. This will be based on advice from the Chief Medical Officer. ‘In this situation, clinically extremely vulnerable staff should not go into work if shielding advice is in place in their area or the area they work in,’ it adds.
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