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How childminders can demonstrate they are operating 'Covid-secure'

Many jobs including childminding include visiting other people's homes, but maintaining social distancing and good hygiene in such intimate settings can be particularly challenging.

As part of a series of guidelines on how to work safely during the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK government has produced specific "Covid-secure" guidance for people whose jobs involve visiting other people's homes.

Unlike the other Covid-secure guidelines, which apply to designated workplaces, the homes guidelines apply more widely to anyone performing work in other people's homes including employees, self-employed individuals and agency workers, such as cleaners, cooks and childminders.

The guidelines do not apply to nannies, who spend all their time in one household, or their employers, although there is no equivalent guidance for these occupations, even though these groups have been encouraged to return to work under the government's Covid-19 Recovery Strategy.

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