Update to guidance on asymptomatic testing expansion for foster carers and staff of open residential children’s homes. Updated with latest advice on shielding for clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) children. Updated 'Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for children's social care services'. Updated with guidance for supporting children’s care homes in the management of visitor testing, safeguarding in out of school settings and youth clubs, and keeping residential settings safe from coronavirus (COVID-19). The guidance has not changed since it was last updated on.
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Updated guidance with additions to Overview and risk assessment, Independent living and Testing for care staff and foster carers, and amendments to Principles, Legislation and regulations, Visitor testing, Support for children, Virtual visits, Educational settings, Out of school settings, Multi-agency, Fostering, Adoption, Court orders and other content.Ĭonverted 'Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for children's social care services' from pdf to HTML. We have also republished in HTML format and have removed advice that no longer applies. This guidance has been updated to confirm the position on tracing close contacts from Step 4, to reinstate a section on residential provision that was removed from the previous version (there are no policy changes) and to update the name only of 'Amendments from 24 September 2020 to existing regulations' to 'Amendments from 31 March 2021 to existing regulations'. Updated information on exceptional exemptions from self-isolation for critical staff and added a link to the relevant guidance. Updated ‘COVID-19: guidance for children's social care services’ to reflect the changes to self-isolation from 16 August in the ‘Tracing close contacts and isolation’ and ‘Testing for children’s home staff and foster carers’ sections. ‘COVID-19: guidance for children's social care services’ updated to reflect changes to tracing close contacts and isolation, and testing for children’s home staff and foster carers. Removed ‘Amendments from 31 March 2021 to existing regulations’. Updated ‘COVID-19: guidance for children's social care services’ to reflect that from 1 October, the flexibilities in the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus)(Amendment) Regulations 2020 will no longer be available. Updated to reflect that daily testing is now recommended for contacts of COVID-19.įollowing the Prime Minister's announcement on 8 December 2021, we have the updated guidance to reflect the introduction of ‘Plan B’ for England prioritising measures which can help control transmission of COVID-19, while seeking to minimise economic and social impacts – in line with the government’s formal COVID-19 Response: Autumn and Winter Plan 2021. Updated guidance in line with the UKHSA announcement about confirmatory PCR tests. Updated ‘COVID-19: guidance for children's social care services’ to reflect the removal of Plan B restrictions, including updates to temporary regulations, visits and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Updated to refer to the UKHSA guidance on what to do if you have a positive COVID-19 test. Reference made to UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) guidance on contact tracing and isolation which comes into effect from Thursday 24 February 2022. Updated to reflect the end of the asymptomatic testing programme.
We’ve updated the guidance to reflect new public health guidance on tracing close contacts, isolation and when someone has symptoms or a positive test.