Overview of Important Guidance
Regularly updated guidance and information can be found on this website and at:
- Government Coronavirus Dashboard
- The Care Provider Alliance’s COVID-19 Resources Page
- The government’s COVID-19 advice page
- The government’s Social Care Guidance Portal
- COVID-19 information governance advice
The tabs at the top of this page contain more specific pieces of information and guidance which you need to know. Please note the extremely clinically vulnerable have updated guidance (updated 25.2.21). See also COVID-19 Population Risk Assessment.
If you have any questions about guidance or have questions for DHSC about COVID-19 please let us know at [email protected] and we will seek a response.
We are also working closely with other members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Social Care (APPG) to influence parliamentarians.
Guidance on lockdown, social distancing and easements:
- COVID-19 variant information – updated 24.2.21
- Lockdown Lifting Roadmap – Spring 2021 – 22.2.21
- National Lockdown: Stay at Home – updated 22.2.21
PHE, DHSC & NHS are developing guidance for a variety of professional groups on handling the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in the UK. This section gives a quick overview of the guidance. Please see the tabs at the top of the page for further information and guidance.
Overview of Guidance and Important Information
Please see the vaccinations page for further information and guidance.
Key links:
- National Booking Service – portal for over 70s, frontline social care staff & clinically extremely vulnerable to book vaccine appointment
- List of LA contacts for COVID-19 vaccination roll-out support for frontline staff
- DHSC Communications toolkit – updated regularly with Q&As
- PHE vaccination campaign resources
- NHS Primary Care Guidance for COVID-19 Vaccine – regularly updated
- Mencap has produced a range of resources and campaign material about COVID-19 vaccination for people with learning disabilities.
- COVID-19 vaccination programme – a list of relevant documents including leaflets, posters, consent forms and other resources – updated 20.2.21
- A link to the greenbook outlining information about COVID-19 vaccines- updated 12.2.21
Please see the infection prevention and control page for futher information and guidance.
Key links:
- Testing for Extra Care and Supported Living Settings updated 25.2.21
- Care home testing guidance for staff and residents – new LFD and PCR regime – updated 25.2.21
- Clinically Extremely Vulnerable Guidance – updated 25.2.21
- Workforce Capacity Fund – updated 23.2.21
- List of LRF and LA contacts for PPE – updated 22.2.21
- Lateral Flow Testing of visitors in care homes guidance – updated 22.2.20
- Infection Control Fund Round 2 Grant Conditions – updated 19.2.21
- Designated settings for people discharged to a care home – updated 18.2.21
- Testing for Adult Day Care Centre Workers 18.2.21
- New Outbreak Guidance – 16.2.21
- Testing for Personal Assistants 16.2.21
- PPE Portal (Clipper) – updated 9.2.21
- LFD self-testing for care home workers at home – 4.2.21
- Admissions to care home guidance– Updated 29.1.21
- Supported Living Guidance – updated 22.1.21
- Adult Social Care Rapid Testing Fund – 15.1.21
- Visiting arrangements in care homes – updated 12.1.21
- Arrangements for visiting out of the care home – updated 12.1.21
- Testing for Home Care Workers 6.1.21
Please see the NHS + Clinical Guidance, Discharge, and Commissioning page for further information and guidance.
Key links:
- NHS COVID-19 Programme Guidance
- Designated settings for people discharged to a care home – 18.2.21
- CQC COVID-19 Designation Scheme Info – updated 17.2.21
- QCOVID & COVID-19 Population Risk Assessment – 16.2.21
- Update on funding of post-discharge support for remainder 2020/21 – 10.2.21
- Admission and care of people in care homes – Updated 29.1.21
- Pulse oximetry to detect early deterioration of patients with COVID-19 in primary and community care settings – updated 29.1.21
- NHS Guidance: Improving discharge patient flow from acute settings – 20.1.21
- CPA guide to Enhanced Care in Care Homes – 18.1.21
- Guidance on Primary Care Standard Operating Procedures – updated 24.12.20
- Guidance for stepdown of infection control procedures within hospitals and discharging COVID-19 patients from hospital to home settings – updated 18.12.20
- Prioritisation within Community Health Services – updated 8.12.20
Please see the workforce page for further information and guidance.
Key Links:
- Care for Others. Make a Difference – Recruitment campaign
- Key Workers: Guidance for who constitutes key workers & Guidance for parents and carers – Updated 24.2.21
- Workforce Capacity Fund – updated 23.2.21
- Guidance on shielding for those on the Clinically Extremeley Vulnerable list – updated 16.2.21
- Guidance for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for employers here and employees here Updated 12.2.21
- Safer Travel Guidance for Passengers – Updated 11.2.21
- Call to Care: Recruitment campaign for short-term opportunities – 9.2.21
Please see the housing and homelessness page for further information and guidance.
- Housing LIN – COVID-19 resources
- National Housing Federation Resources
- Understanding the possession action process: guidance for landlords and tenants – updated 19.2.21
- Guidance for landlords, tenants and local authorities – Updated 19.2.21
- Provision of night shelters – 11.1.21
- Guidance for hostels or day centres for people rough sleeping – Updated 6.1.21
- Guidance for commissioners and providers of services for people who use drugs and alcohol – Updated 6.1.21
Please see the regulation and legal page for further information and guidance.
Key links:
- CQC Information for providers during pandemic
- SCIE COVID-19 Guidance Hub
- HSE RIDDOR Reporting of COVID-19 – 26.2.21
- CQC IPC inspection tool – updated 11.2.21
- Written Ministerial Statement about designated settings indemnity arrangements– 18.1.21
- Designated settings for people discharged to a care home – updated 13.1.21
- We now have it in writing from the CQC that you do not need to apply for diagnostic and screening procedures to carry out testing staff, residents or visitors. – 5.1.21
- Regulating COVID-19 testing updated 15.12.20
- COVID-19 registrations – Updated 15.12.20
- CQC notification for the death of a person using your service form – 17.10.20
Please see the Digital and Information Governance page for further information and guidance.
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