The Joint Committee on Human Rights has written a letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock and Prisons Minister, Lucy Frazer on the impact of the long coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown on those in care homes, hospitals and prisons. The Committee has also drafted new legislation in an effort to end blanket bans of visiting relatives in care homes and ‘require residential care homes to allow visits unless, after individualised assessment, a face-to-face visit is not possible for safety reasons’.