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Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance
Guidance about coronavirus (COVID-19), including business, health, education and housing.
Introduction
See our main coronavirus page for the latest guidance.
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Looking after yourself and others
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Scotland's Strategic Framework
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): face coverings and masks
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for people at highest risk
- Vitamin D: advice for all age groups
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): international travel and quarantine
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): opening public and customer toilets
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for those providing guide support
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): travel and transport
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): one to one support and support groups
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): staying safe and protecting others
Test and Protect: getting tested and self-isolating
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Test and Protect
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): getting tested in Scotland
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): test, trace, isolate, support strategy
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Test and Protect - collection of customer and visitor contact details: guidance – April 2021 update
Businesses and employers
The general guidance is for all businesses and workplaces and provides advice on measures to reduce risk and create a safe environment for customers and staff. Businesses and workplaces should utilise the compliance toolkit to support their risk management.
Further supporting guidance relating to businesses and employers can be accessed at:
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): supporting safer capacity in public settings and events
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): tourism and hospitality sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for museums, galleries and heritage attractions
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for call centres and customer contact centre environments
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for licensing authorities on travelling funfairs
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): European Structural and Investment Funds
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Aquaculture Hardship Fund - application form
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on offering support
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): state aid - guidance for public authorities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): reopening and managing household waste recycling centres
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): waste sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on individual occupational risk assessment
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): ventilation guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): close contact services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): safer businesses and workplaces
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): cultural performances and events guidance
Education and children
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for Infant Feeding Service
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): supporting children and young people with complex additional support needs
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): school placing requests and appeal hearings - guidance for local authorities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): school placing requests and appeals - information for parents
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for continuity in learning
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Curriculum for Excellence in the Recovery Phase
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): support to childcare sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): organised activities for children
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): school and youth work visits and trips
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): residential and secure childcare
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): supplementary national child protection guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on reducing the risks in schools
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): school age childcare services guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): childminder services guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): early learning and childcare services
Health, care and social work
Health Protection Scotland continues to update its guidance for health protection teams and healthcare practitioners as the situation evolves, as well as providing guidance for non-healthcare settings including schools, places of detention, and separate guidance for social care settings.
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): palliative care toolkit
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for clinical scientist trainees
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidance - using physical restraint for patients
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): unpaid carers providing personal care
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): interim guidance on re-starting therapy in patients with cancer after infection with COVID-19
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): vaccination guidance for health and social care professionals
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for personal assistants
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): uploading LFD testing results and bar code scanners
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care worker death in service payment
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care staff support fund guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adults with incapacity
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for those providing guide support
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): PPE access for social care providers and unpaid carers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidance on the use of Buvidal in prisons
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): transfer of medical certificates of cause of death - guidance for doctors
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): ethical advice and support framework
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on self-directed support
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): outpatient and primary care consultations - principles
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on critical care management of adult patients
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidelines for cancer treatment
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidelines for managing systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) and radiotherapy (RT) for COVID-19 positive cancer patients
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult support and protection guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on the extended use of face masks and face coverings in hospitals, primary care and wider community care
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for unpaid carers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): use of face coverings in social care settings including adult care homes
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for care at home, housing support and supported housing
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance on adult social care building-based day services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care home testing guidance for visiting professionals
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care home lateral flow device testing
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): hospital visiting guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): safe and ethical social work practice
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care homes guidance
Places of worship, marriages and civil partnerships, and funerals
Housing
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for private landlords and letting agents
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): moving home
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): information for homelessness services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): framework to support gypsy/traveller communities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): workers' accommodation
Culture, events, retail, hospitality and tourism
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): tourism and hospitality sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for museums, galleries and heritage attractions
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): opening public and customer toilets
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for licensing authorities on travelling funfairs
Animal owners
Other
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): procurement regulations for public bodies SPPN 4/2020
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): building standards certification of design - letter from the Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): building standards building warrants - letter from the Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): letter from the Planning Minister about guidance on the verification of building work
- Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts: guidance for stakeholders
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): planning guidance on pre-application consultations for public events
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): state aid - guidance for public authorities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Scotland's route map through and out of the crisis
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): reopening and managing household waste recycling centres
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): international travel and quarantine
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): vehicle lessons
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): local authority directions