Antonio Caraballo believes hotel quarantine rules will prevent children who live abroad
from being able to visit a parent in Scotland.
His 10-year-old son Sami arrived in Edinburgh from Finland in February, and it was
expected he would isolate at his father's home.
But Mr Caraballo ended up having to isolate with Sami at an airport hotel.
Now he believes that forcing unaccompanied children to quarantine is affecting their
rights to have access to their parents.
The Scottish government said that children had to enter managed isolation and
exemptions had to be restricted for the policy to work.
Despite Mr Caraballo's efforts to appeal the process, the pair had to remain in isolation
until they were allowed to leave on Wednesday morning.
Sami, who lives in Finland with his mother, had just three full days left of his school
break to spend with his father and sister.
Mr Caraballo, a specialist engineer working on the Forties pipeline, is a key worker
and therefore exempt from having to go through managed isolation if he travels and
returns back into Scotland.
But he had to pay £2,400 to go through the hotel procedure with his son.作者: kldahs0d81h 時間: 2021-3-21 16:42
