Welsh Government’s Self-Isolation Support Scheme to be extended to parents and carers of children required to self-isolate

Applications will open via local authority websites from 14 December 2020, with scope for backdating of payments to 23 October 2020

The Welsh Government's Self-Isolation Support Scheme is to be extended to parents and carers of children required to self-isolate.

Launched last month in response to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the scheme is designed to provide financial support to people on low incomes or facing financial hardship when they are asked to self-isolate by the NHS Wales Test Trace Protect service.

As a result of the extension of the Scheme - announced in a Written Statement today by Minister for Housing and Local Government Julie James - parents and carers on low incomes who meet the criteria for the main scheme will qualify where they have a child attending a school or childcare setting up to and including in year eight – or up to age 25 if the learner has multiple and complex additional needs – who has received a formal notification to self-isolate from Test Trace Protect or their education or childcare setting.

Parents and carers will be able to apply for the £500 self-isolation payment via their local authority website from 14 December 2020, with scope for backdating of payments to 23 October 2020.

For more infomation see £500 payment scheme now open to parents and carers of children required to self-isolate from gov.wales