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Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance
Guidance about coronavirus (COVID-19), including business, health, education and housing.
Introduction
All of Scotland is at COVID-19 Level 3. Find out the rules on what you can do at Level 3.
Looking after yourself and others
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) protection levels: what you can do
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): face coverings guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): help for people who need additional support
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): shielding advice and support
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on support, information, food and other essentials
- Vitamin D: advice for all age groups
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for people with specific medical conditions
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on domestic abuse
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): international travel and managed isolation (quarantine)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for retail, tourism and hospitality customers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): opening public and customer toilets
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for those providing guide support
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on travel and transport
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): one to one support and support groups
Test and Protect: getting tested and self-isolating
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Test and Protect
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): getting tested in Scotland
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): prioritisation matrix for key workers to be tested
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): test, trace, isolate, support strategy
- Test and Protect - collection of customer and visitor contact details: guidance – April 2021 update
Businesses and employers
Sector advice cards are available as part of the supporting files in the Coronavirus (COVID-19): Scottish workbook 2020. They are for managers and workers to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and explain what to do in the event of an outbreak.
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): businesses and workplaces that must close and can remain open at protection level 4
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Restrictions Fund
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): general guidance for safer workplaces
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): creating and maintaining safer workplaces
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): prioritisation matrix for key workers to be tested
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for licensing authorities on travelling funfairs
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): caravan sites and holiday parks
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): construction sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): European Structural and Investment Funds
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Sea Fisheries Hardship Fund (tranche 2) - application form
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Sea Fisheries Hardship Fund - application form
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Aquaculture Hardship Fund - application form
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on offering support
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): social distancing in non-healthcare public services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): statement to telecommunications operators on build and maintenance of networks
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): state aid - guidance for public authorities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for retail, tourism and hospitality customers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): retail sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): manufacturing sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): reopening and managing household waste recycling centres
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): tourism and hospitality sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for creative studios and shared workspaces
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): events sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for museums, galleries and heritage attractions
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): small and micro businesses guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): waste sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for cinemas and drive-in cinemas
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on film and TV production
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): public libraries guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on working from home
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on individual occupational risk assessment
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for call centres and customer contact centre environments
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial services sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for the technology sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for the onshore wind industry
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): provisional guidance for the soft play sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): investigation of outbreaks in manufacturing businesses - guidance for employers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): multi-purpose community facilities - guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): compliance self-assessment tool
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): ventilation guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): close contact services
Education and children
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): supplementary national child protection guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for Infant Feeding Service
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): prioritisation matrix for key workers to be tested
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): strategic framework for reopening schools, early learning and childcare provision
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Curriculum for Excellence in the Recovery Phase
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for applied biomedical science students
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on domestic abuse
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for continuity in learning
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for the community learning and development sector
- Coronavirus (COVID 19): Advisory Sub-Group on Education and Children’s Issues – advisory note on face coverings in schools
- Coronavirus (COVID 19): Advisory Sub-Group on Education and Children’s Issues – advisory note on school trips which include an overnight stay
- Common cold and COVID-19 symptoms: advice for parents and carers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for school visits and trips
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): residential childcare
- Coronavirus (COVID 19): Advisory Sub-Group on Education and Children’s Issues – advisory note on school holidays over the festive season
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): organised activities for children
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): universities, colleges and student accommodation providers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): support to childcare sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): organised activities for children from 5 January 2021
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): childcare provision for January 2021
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for laboratories and research facilities
- 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): child contact services guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for school age childcare services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): childminder services guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): early learning and childcare (ELC) services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on reducing the risks in schools
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): nursing and community health staff guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adults with incapacity guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID 19): guidance on changes to social care assessments
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidance - using physical restraint for patients
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): palliative care toolkit
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): unpaid carers providing personal care
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for personal assistants
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guide for health professions considering a return to the NHS Scotland
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): PPE access for social care providers and unpaid carers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult support and protection guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidance on the use of Buvidal in prisons
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): job retention (furlough) of social care staff required to shield
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): prioritisation matrix for key workers to be tested
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical and practice guidance for adult care homes
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): transfer of medical certificates of cause of death - guidance for doctors
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for clinical scientist trainees
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care staff support fund guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): safe and ethical social work practice
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for those providing guide support
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on domestic abuse
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): ethical advice and support framework
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidance for managing patients
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care worker death in service payment
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): shielding guidance for local authorities and local resilience partnerships
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on self-directed support
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidance for the management of clients accessing care at home, housing support and sheltered housing
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for unpaid carers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): outpatient and primary care consultations - principles
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on critical care management of adult patients
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): interim guidance on the extended use of face masks and face coverings in hospitals, primary care, wider community care and adult care homes
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance on adult social care building-based day services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): hospital visiting guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidelines for cancer treatment
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): interim guidance on re-starting therapy in patients with cancer after infection with COVID-19
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care home testing guidance for visiting professionals
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care home lateral flow device testing
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): vaccination guidance for health and social care professionals
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care homes guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidelines for managing systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) and radiotherapy (RT) for COVID-19 positive cancer patients
Places of worship, marriages and civil partnerships, and funerals
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for funeral services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for funeral directors
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): local death management - statutory guidance for local authorities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for the safe use of places of worship
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): wedding ceremonies and civil partnership registrations
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for burial and cremation authorities
Housing
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for private landlords and letting agents
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on moving home
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for social landlords
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): cleaning and hygiene advice for multi-storeys and high-density flats
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): information for homelessness services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): framework to support gypsy/traveller communities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on allocations for the housing sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): second homes guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for private tenants
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on workers' accommodation
Culture, events, retail, hospitality and tourism
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for the performing arts and venues sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): retail sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for retail, tourism and hospitality customers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): tourism and hospitality sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for museums, galleries and heritage attractions
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): events sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): opening public and customer toilets
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): alcohol and civic licensing
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): public libraries guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for cinemas and drive-in cinemas
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on film and TV production
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): sport and leisure facilities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for licensing authorities on travelling funfairs
Animal owners
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for beekeepers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for animal owners
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for livestock keepers
Other
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): procurement regulations for public bodies SPPN 4/2020
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): alcohol and civic licensing
- 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): guidance on domestic abuse
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): shielding guidance for local authorities and local resilience partnerships
- 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 managed isolation (quarantine)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): community food-growing spaces
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): safer public spaces - updated guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): stadium sector guidance for professional football and rugby
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): vehicle lessons
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): sport and leisure facilities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): local authority directions
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): protests and demonstrations