Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance
Guidance about coronavirus (COVID-19), including business, health, education and housing.
Introduction
Looking after yourself and others
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): staying safe and protecting others
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Scotland's Strategic Framework
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for people who were on the Highest Risk List
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): distance aware scheme
- Vitamin D: advice for all age groups
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): international travel
Test and Protect: getting tested and self-isolating
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:
Education and children
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for Infant Feeding Service
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Curriculum for Excellence in the Recovery Phase
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): school placing requests and appeals - information for parents
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): universities, colleges and community learning and development providers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): early learning and childcare services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on reducing the risks in schools
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): school placing requests and appeal hearings - guidance for local authorities
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): clinical guidance - using physical restraint for patients
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): vaccination guidance for health and social care professionals
- 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): adults with incapacity
- Open with Care: adult care home visiting guidance - easy read
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care worker death in service payment
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult social care building-based day services - guidance
- Open with Care: supporting meaningful contact in adult care homes – principles
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care staff support fund guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): hospital visiting
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): use of face coverings in social care settings including adult care homes
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): extended use of face masks and face coverings in hospitals, primary care and wider community healthcare
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for unpaid carers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care homes visiting guidance
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) building standards - verification guidance: letter from the Planning Minister - 14 May 2020
- Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts: guidance for stakeholders
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): planning guidance on pre-application consultations for public events
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Scotland's route map through and out of the crisis
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): international travel
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): local authority directions
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