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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) Phase 3: staying safe and protecting others
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): what you can and cannot do
- 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 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): local advice and measures
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
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Test and Protect: multi-sector guidance on collection of customer and visitor contact details – July 2020
Businesses and employers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): general guidance for safer workplaces
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): returning to work safely
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): prioritisation matrix for key workers to be tested
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for businesses
- 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): culture and creative sector support
- 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 for businesses 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 for homeworking
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on individual risk assessment for the workplace
- 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): general guidance for safer workplaces
Education and children
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): supplementary national child protection guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for Infant Feeding Service
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): supporting pupils, parents and teachers - learning during term 4
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): school placing requests and appeals - information for parents
- 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): school placing requests and appeal hearings - guidance for local authorities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for applied biomedical science students
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): residential childcare
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for laboratories and research facilities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on domestic abuse
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for continuity in learning
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): childminder services guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): fully outdoor childcare providers guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): support to childcare sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for the community learning and development sector
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on re-opening school age childcare services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on reopening early learning and childcare services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): child contact services guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID 19): Advisory Sub-Group on Education and Children’s Issues – advisory note on face coverings in schools
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on preparing for the start of the new school term in August 2020 - version 2
- 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): organised activities for children (provisional)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for school visits and trips
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): universities, colleges and student accommodation providers
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on preparing for the start of the new school term in August 2020 - version 3
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): guidance for medical, nursing and midwifery students
- 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): clinical guidelines for cancer treatment
- 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): interim guidance on re-starting therapy in patients with cancer after infection with COVID-19
- 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): hospital visiting 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): remobilisation guidance for maternity and neonatal services
- 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): Guidance on adult social care building-based day services
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care homes visiting guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): outpatient and primary care consultations - principles
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): interim guidance on the extended use of face masks in hospitals and care homes
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): guidance for burial and cremation authorities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): local death management - statutory guidance for local authorities
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Phase 3: guidance for the safe use of places of worship
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): wedding ceremonies and civil partnership registrations
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
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): guidance on 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 quarantine
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): community food-growing spaces
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on safer public spaces - urban centres and green spaces
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): stadium sector guidance for professional football and rugby
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): vehicle lessons
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on sport and leisure facilities