Key public services

This includes:

• Those essential to the running of the justice system.
• Religious staff.
• Charities and workers delivering key frontline services.
• Those responsible for the management of the deceased.
• Journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.

Local and national government

This only includes:

• Those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the coronavirus (COVID-19) response.
• Or delivering essential public services, such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.

Food and other necessary goods

This includes those involved in food:

• Production.
• Processing.
• Distribution.
• Sale and delivery.
• As well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).

Public safety and national security

This includes:

• Police and support staff.
• Ministry of Defence civilians.
• Contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak).
• Fire and rescue service employees (including support staff).
• National Crime Agency staff.
• Those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.

Transport

This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the coronavirus (COVID-19) response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.

Utilities, communication and financial services

This includes:

• Staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure).
• The oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage).
• Information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the coronavirus (COVID-19) response.
• Key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services).
• Postal services and delivery.
• Payments providers.
• Waste disposal sectors.

Vulnerable children and young people include those who:

• Are assessed as being in need under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, including children and young people who have a child in need plan, a child protection plan or who are a looked-after child.
• Have an education, health and care (EHC) plan.
• Have been identified as otherwise vulnerable by educational providers or local authorities (including children’s social care services), and who could therefore benefit from continued full-time attendance, this might include:
  • Children and young people on the edge of receiving support from children’s social care services or in the process of being referred to children’s services.
  • Adopted children or children on a special guardianship order.
  • Those at risk of becoming NEET (‘not in employment, education or training’).
  • Those living in temporary accommodation.
  • Those who are young carers.
  • Those who may have difficulty engaging with remote education at home (for example, due to a lack of devices or quiet space to study).
  • care leavers.
  • Other children and young people at the provider and local authority’s discretion including pupils who need to attend to receive support or manage risks to their mental health.