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:

Pay Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme grants back

Find out how to pay all or some of your grant back if you’ve overclaimed, or if you do not need the grant and want to make a voluntary re

Claim for wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

Claim for some of your employee’s wages if you have put them on furlough or flexible furlough because of coronavirus (COVID-19).

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.

Providing apprenticeships during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

Find out how apprenticeships will continue during the coronavirus (COVD-19) outbreak.

Reallocating road space in response to COVID-19: statutory guidance for local authorities

Guidance for local authorities on managing their road networks in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): school and college performance measures

Our approach to school and college accountability, performance tables and data during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Awarding qualifications in summer 2021

What schools, colleges and students need to know about the arrangements for awarding GCSEs, AS and A levels, VTQs and other qualification

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.

Closing certain businesses and venues in England

This guidance sets out restrictions on certain businesses and venues in England during National Lockdown.

Reopening businesses and venues in England

This guidance details the steps to reopen certain businesses and venues in England.