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:

Responsibility for exams

Guidance for schools, colleges and exam centres on who should enter students for exams, the health arrangements for exams and the support

Test and Trace Support Payment scheme: claiming financial support

Who can claim the support and how to apply.

We Offer Testing to our Staff (WOTTOS): endorsement scheme

Guidance about a simple and free voluntary promotional scheme for firms who are participating in the government’s free coronavirus (COVID

Initial teacher training (ITT): criteria and supporting advice

Mandatory guidance on the criteria that organisations must meet to provide initial teacher training (ITT).

Early years ITT requirements and supporting advice

Advice for providers looking to offer early years initial teacher training (ITT).

COVID-19 vaccination: information for healthcare practitioners

Guidance for healthcare practitioners about the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programme.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing for hospices

Sets out how hospices can access COVID-19 testing for staff and patients on-site, for staff visiting patients in their own homes, and for

Coronavirus (COVID-19): providing home care

Information for those providing personal care to people living in their own home during the coronavirus outbreak.

Self-declare as a private COVID-19 testing provider

How to declare that you meet the minimum standards for private-provided testing and be listed as a private sector coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19 risk assessment methodology to inform international travel traffic light system

Risk assessment methodology to support decisions on red, amber and green list country allocations.