Updates on the latest Covid-19 events guidelines can be found below.
Please see extract from last night’s BVEP/TIER update which offers some clarity on permitted meetings.
Questions on the roadmap announcement and the update of Cabinet Office Reopening Businesses and Venues guidance.
Following the Roadmap announcement and the update of the Cabinet Office Reopening Businesses and Venues guidance last week, questions from members of Industry Association HBAA, of which Hippo Events are a member, have been collated and logged with Cabinet Office. DCMS has advised that Cabinet Office will be prioritising answering questions according to the dates in the Roadmap, beginning with 8th and 29th March related questions.
They are pressing that answers are required with as much forward notice as possible in order to prepare for reopening, plan events, and take bookings.
The updated ‘Visitor Economy’ and ‘Hotels and Other Guest Accommodation’ guidance will be made available online prior to the dates of each step of the Roadmap.
Please find some initial answers below.
Q. Can work meetings currently take place?
In-person meetings for work, training or education purposes can still take place but only where it is not possible to carry out the activity from home, and if social distancing can be maintained and the venue can demonstrate it has followed COVID-19 guidance. People should only attend a business meeting in person if it is necessary for them to be there – social meetings with work colleagues should not happen. Permitted venues, including exhibition and conference centres, can hire out function and event spaces for essential work, education and training purposes, where these events cannot reasonably be conducted remotely in Step 1 and 2.
Q. Is the roadmap/steps set in stone and is the roadmap guidance or law?
The timings outlined in the roadmap are indicative, and the Government will be led by data, rather than fixed dates. Before taking each step, the Government will review the latest data and will only ease restrictions further if it is safe to do so. The indicative, ‘no earlier than’ dates in the roadmap are all contingent on the data and subject to change. The roadmap will be underpinned by regulations, though these are yet to be made. As set out in the roadmap, we hope to ease restrictions, incrementally, over a period of time. Until those points people must continue to follow the rules set out in law.
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Source: The above is written and provided by the events industry Association HBAA. Hippo Events are a committed member of the HBAA. The HBAA is the events and hospitality association that drives, promotes and models good business between its members.
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