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Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance
Guidance about coronavirus (COVID-19), including business, health, education and housing.
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 managed isolation (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
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
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): safer businesses and workplaces
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): returning to offices
- 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): tourism and hospitality sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for museums, galleries and heritage attractions
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): waste sector guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on individual occupational risk assessment
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): investigation of outbreaks in manufacturing businesses - guidance for employers
- 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): Curriculum for Excellence in the Recovery Phase
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for continuity in learning
- 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
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): school and youth work visits and trips
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): residential childcare
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): support to childcare sector
- 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): school age childcare services guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): childminder services guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on reducing the risks in schools
- 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): adults with incapacity
- 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): 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): 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): ethical advice and support framework
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care worker death in service payment
- 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 supported 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): guidance on the extended use of face masks and face coverings in hospitals, primary care and wider community care
- 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
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): uploading LFD testing results and bar code scanners
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): guidance for social landlords
- 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): advice for private tenants
- 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): alcohol and civic licensing
- 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): 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): 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): stadium sector guidance for professional football and rugby
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): vehicle lessons
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): local authority directions