Information and support Scotland Government
Stay safe, protect others, save lives.
- staying safe and protecting others (physical distancing)
- guidance on what you can and cannot do
- support if you are shielding (in the highest risk group)
- help if you are vulnerable or need additional support
- advice if you have a specific medical condition
- guidance on using face coverings in public
- guidance for customers
- staying safe at home leaflet
- health advice, including a symptom checker and guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection, can be found on NHS Inform
- shielding guidance for local authorities
- guide to getting tested for coronavirus
- testing: prioritisation matrix for key workers
- Test and Protect: guidance for self-isolating
- Test and Protect: summary of guidance for self isolating
- Test and Protect: guidance for employers
- test and protect health advice is on NHS Inform
- guide to the help and support available including food and other essentials
- vitamin D: advice for all age groups
- for domestic abuse support go to the Safer Scotland website
- health and social care workers can get advice to support their emotional wellbeing at the National Wellbeing Hub
- information for older people can be found at Age Scotland
- dementia advice and support can be found at Alzheimer Scotland
- for autism advice go to Scottish Autism
- if you have been affected by sexual violence you can get support at Rape Crisis Scotland
- if you are feeling anxious or depressed you can get support from NHS Inform, Breathing Space, the Scottish Association for Mental Health and Samaritans Scotland
Care, carers and social work
- general advice for unpaid carers
- unpaid carers: guide to using PPE
- personal assistants: guide to using PPE
- social care providers and unpaid carers: how to access PPE
- guidance on the use of face masks in hospitals and care homes
- guidance on changes to social care assessments
- guidance for social workers on safe and ethical practice
- adult support and protection guidance
- job retention (furlough) of social care staff required to shield
- adults with incapacity guidance
- guidance on self-directed support
Healthcare students
- guidance for medical, nursing and midwifery students
- guidance for clinical scientist trainees
- guidance for applied biomedical science students
Clinical guidance
Further information for health and social care professionals
- guide for health professionals returning to NHS Scotland
- further information and guidance for health practitioners can be found at NHS Inform and Health Protection Scotland
Re-opening guidance
- guidance on re-opening schools
- guidance on re-opening early learning and childcare services
- childminder services re-opening guidance
- fully outdoor childcare providers re-opening guidance
Safety and wellbeing
- physical distancing in education and childcare settings
- guidance for residential childcare settings
- supplementary national child protection guidance
- infant feeding service guidance for NHS staff
Support for learning
- support for continuity in learning guidance
- guidance on the Curriculum for Excellence in the recovery phase
Parents
- education and childcare provision for keyworkers and vulnerable children
- school placing requests and appeals guidance
- childcare closures and emergency provision
- general parenting advice is on the ParentClub website
Children and young people
- advice for young people is on YoungScot
Further and higher education
- COVID-19 advice for students is on the SAAS website
- advice for international students
Data
- physical distancing guidance for businesses
- support for businesses
- Test and Protect: guidance for self-isolating | summary | guidance for employers
- coronavirus business support and advice is at the Find Business Support website.
Sector specific guidance and support
- construction sector guidance
- culture and creative sector support
- sea fisheries support
- aquaculture support
- caravan sites and holiday parks
- SME housebuilders support
- manufacturing sector guidance
- retail sector guidance
- household waste recycling centre guidance
- tourism and hospitality sector guidance
- guidance on returning to work
- advice about benefits and employment rights is on Citizens Advice Scotland
- advice about employment and redundancy support is on the My World of Work website
- for money and consumer advice go to coronavirusadvice.scot
- for employment rights advice see the Acas website
- for energy saving advice go to Home Energy Scotland
- information on how to help your community is on the Ready Scotland website
- businesses, third sector and voluntary organisations can offer to help with the response to coronavirus
- if your offer is for NHS Scotland, use the NHS Scotland Supply Offers Portal
- if you’re a member of the public who wants to share an idea, email cpe@gov.scot
- guidance for funeral services
- guidance for places of worship on providing funeral services
- guidance for funeral directors
- guidance for burial and cremation authorities
- guidance for religious organisations, faith and cultural groups on preparing for burial or cremation
- death management statutory guidance for local authorities
- guidance for customers on how the retail experience in shops, tourism and hospitality businesses is changing
- guidance for the retail sector in Scotland
- guidance for the tourism and hospitality sector
- guidance for campsites, holiday parks, caravan sites, motorhome hire businesses and their users
- guidance for alcohol and civic licensing
- advice on how to travel safely is on the Transport Scotland website
- guidance on the process for people entering the UK
- guidance for British people travelling abroad is at gov.uk
- travel advice and country specific information can be found at the Fit for Travel website
- visa and passport advice is at gov.uk
Our approach is guided by the Chief Medical Officer, and we continue to monitor the situation closely and to work with the WHO and international community.
We are working with the Welsh Government, Northern Ireland Executive, and the UK Government to respond to the ongoing outbreak.
- Test, Trace, Isolate, Support sets out our plans to help disrupt community transmission of coronavirus
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Scotland’s route map is a collection of documents setting out how Scotland will transition out of lockdown.
- First Minister’s updates and statements
- Coronavirus advisory groups
- findings on modelling the COVID-19 epidemic