COVID-19: Information and Guidance for Social or Community Care and Residential Settings

This guidance is to give advice about COVID-19 (previously known as novel coronavirus 2019) for those working in social or community care and residential settings. Social and community care is taken to include:

• Long-term conditions services
• Rehabilitation services
• Community healthcare services
• Community-based services for people with mental health needs
• Community-based services for people with a learning disability
• Community social care (domiciliary care services including those provided for children)
• Community-based services for people who misuse substances
• Local authority social work fieldwork services
• Residential children’s homes, including secure children’s homes
• Care home services with nursing
• Care home services without nursing
• Support to people in their own homes, either from a service or from staff directly employed by the supported

This guidance covers:

• What COVID-19 is and how it is spread.

• Advice on how to prevent spread of all respiratory infections including COVID-19.

• Setting-specific information and advice is also included in, or is linked to from, this guidance.

Read the guidance, here.