Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance

Introduction

See our main coronavirus page for the latest guidance. 

See the latest daily data for Scotland.

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 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

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): staying at home
• 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

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): reopening and managing household waste recycling centres
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): waste sector guidance
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): safer workplaces and public settings

Education and children

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for Infant Feeding Service
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Curriculum for Excellence in the Recovery Phase
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): supplementary national child protection guidance
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): looked after children and young people - family contact
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): school placing requests and appeals - information for parents
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): school placing requests and appeal hearings - guidance for local authorities
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): early learning and childcare services
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on reducing the risks in schools
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): universities, colleges and community learning and development providers

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): guidance for clinical scientist trainees
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidance - using physical restraint for patients
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): unpaid carers providing personal care
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): interim guidance on re-starting therapy in patients with cancer after infection with COVID-19
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): vaccination guidance for health and social care professionals
• 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): 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): ethical advice and support framework
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): outpatient and primary care consultations - principles
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on critical care management of adult patients
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidelines for cancer treatment
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult support and protection guidance
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): safe and ethical social work practice
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): adults with incapacity
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): hospital visiting guidance
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): extended use of face masks and face coverings in hospitals, primary care and wider community healthcare
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): use of face coverings in social care settings including adult care homes
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for unpaid carers
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult social care building-based day services - guidance
• Open with Care: adult care home visiting guidance - easy read
• Open with Care: supporting meaningful contact in adult care homes – principles
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care worker death in service payment
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care homes visiting guidance
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care staff support fund guidance

Places of worship, marriages and civil partnerships, and funerals

Housing

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): information for homelessness services

Animal owners

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): 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): 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
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): local authority directions
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Scottish Welfare Fund statutory guidance