Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance
Guidance about coronavirus (COVID-19), including business, health, education and housing.
Introduction
Looking after yourself and others
- Respiratory infections including Coronavirus (COVID-19): staying well 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 parents
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): international travel
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): European Structural and Investment Funds
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support arrangements for social care providers
- Respiratory infections including Coronavirus (COVID-19): safer workplaces and public settings
- Respiratory infections including Coronavirus (COVID-19): ventilation in the workplace
Education and children
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for Infant Feeding Service
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): universities, colleges and community learning and development providers
- 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): early learning and childcare 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): clinical guidance - using physical restraint for patients
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): vaccination guidance for health and social care professionals
- 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
- Open with Care: adult care home visiting guidance - easy read
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care worker death in service payment
- Open with Care: supporting meaningful contact in adult care homes – principles
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care staff support fund guidance
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adults with incapacity
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care homes visiting guidance
- Hospital visiting: guidance for health boards
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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