Coronavirus Advice

This page has been designed to provide up-to-date information, guidance and advice on Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Below are the key links for everything you need to know for your welfare at home, at work, and for businesses and other bodies in dealing with coronavirus.

If you need any further help, please do contact me.

If you have symptoms

All Coronavirus advice

FAQ What you can and can't do

Business Support Finder

Self-Employment Income Support Scheme

Blackpool Council Coronavirus support

Local support for business delivered through Blackpool Council

The latest news from the government on coronavirus:

Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing: privacy information

Privacy notice for NHS Test and Trace virus testing for all users of the service.

Awarding organisation coronavirus (COVID-19) information pages

A list of links to coronavirus (COVID-19) information provided by Ofqual-recognised awarding organisations.

Information about the Events Research Programme (ERP), paving the way for larger audiences to attend sport, theatre and gigs safely this summer

Information for attendees and those hosting the ERP Pilot Events.

COVID-19: guidance on shielding and protecting people defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable

Information for shielding and protecting people defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable from COVID-19.

Private providers of coronavirus testing

Lists of and information about approved suppliers of private testing kits for coronavirus (COVID-19).

COVID-19: infection prevention and control (IPC)

Guidance on infection prevention and control for COVID-19. Sustained community transmission is occurring across the UK.

Making a childcare bubble with another household

How you can get informal childcare for anyone under 14 from friends and family you do not live with.

NHS Test and Trace statistics (England): methodology

How the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) puts together the contact-tracing data in its weekly reports.

Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19)

Find out how to make your workplace COVID-secure.

Coronavirus COVID-19 serology and viral detection tests: technical validation reports

Findings from technical validations and in-service valuations reviewed by the Technical Validation Group.