Grandparents warned that hugging or kissing their grandchildren after they come back from school not the 'most sensible thing to do'
Grandparents have been warned that hugging and kissing their grandchildren after school isn't the 'most sensible thing to do'.The message - from Professor Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and a member of Sage - comes after thousands of children in England and Wales returned to the classroom this week - some for the first time in six months.Professor Viner says that 'being sensible' and 'relatively secure' is key for people who have spend the majority of the pandemic shielding.During a Royal Society of Medicine webinar, he said: "I think if there are highly vulnerable clinically shielding grandparents and others, that actually full-on hugging and kissing your grandchildren after they come back