New Government Advice For Clinically Extremely Vulnerable Workers

Formerly shielding individuals advised not to attend work during lockdown.

The Government published on 4 November updated guidance for protecting people who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) to Covid-19.

The guidance “strongly advises” CEV workers to work from home if they can and to ”not attend work” during the national lockdown period (currently expected to continue until 2 December). This goes further than previous advice which suggested CEV people could attend work where they could not work from home as long as Covid-19 risk control measures were in place and stringently implemented.

Many CEV people will have received a letter or email from the Department of Health and Social Care in the last few days reiterating this advice not to attend work. The letter states that it can be provided as evidence to employers to show that the recipient cannot work outside their home until 2 December. It states the expectation that following