HMPPS has updated the guidance on visiting someone in prison, as prisons are now opening. An adult prison may be visited only if the visitor is not suffering from COVID-19 symptoms or does not live with someone with such symptoms.  

Visitors must also be over 18 or accompanied by an eligible adult. They must be a partner, parent, sibling, child, foster-parent, grandparent, carer or significant other of the person visited, an individual on whom the person in YOI or STC relies on for emotional support, or a social worker for looked after children.  

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