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Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance
Guidance about coronavirus (COVID-19), including business, health, education and housing.
Introduction
Further temporary measures to stop the spread of coronavirus came into effect on Friday 9 October. This includes additional restrictions for central belt areas. Read more about the new measures.
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): 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): 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): 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
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): residential childcare
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): organised activities for children
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): outpatient and primary care consultations - principles
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on critical care management of adult patients
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care homes visiting guidance
- 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
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
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): local authority directions