You may wish to display these posters in your staff areas and watch these videos to help you in your role.

Public Health England:

• Best practice hand-washing – poster  (PDF) 
• Best practice hand rub – poster (PDF)
• Best practice management of blood and body fluid spills – poster (PDF) 
• Routine decontamination of reusable PPE and equipment- poster (PDF) 
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) donning and doffing - NHS youtube video

Locally produced posters:

• Cleaning and waste – poster (PDF) 
• Principles for any home visit – poster (PDF 
• When to change my PPE – poster (PDF) 
• When is PPE needed by Adult Social Care staff – poster (PDF).

• Home visits guidance (PDF) This sets out the risk assessment that you should carry out before making any home visits to local residents, including advice on appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Guidance on transporting people during COVID-19 (PDF) Guidance to support drivers and those planning, and organising, transportation of people during the pandemic.
• COVID-19 Workplace Safety: Guidance for staff and managers (PDF) This guidance is intended for staff and managers in a range of settings to know how to work safely.
• National (Government) Guidance for the safe use of multi-purpose community facilities. 
• National (Government) guidance on COVID-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Guidance on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by health and social care workers.
• National (NHS) General guidance for the public on COVID-19. The latest information and advice from the NHS.
• National (NHS) Guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection Guidance for people with symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) who do not require hospital treatment, who must remain at home until they are well. Advice for those living in households with someone with symptoms of coronavirus.
• National (Government) COVID-19: cleaning of non-healthcare settings Advice on appropriate cleaning of any non-clinical setting (including schools, accommodation, workplaces and offices) to prevent transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19) through infected surfaces.
• National (Government) Guidance on shielding and protecting people defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable from COVID-19 Guidance on protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, including children. It’s also for their family, friends and carers.

Unless otherwise stated, the guidance documents on these pages have been put together by Islington and Camden Public Health. For any enquires related to these documents, please email CIPHAdmin@islington.gov.uk.

• Summary of IPC guidance and support for care settings (PDF). To help signpost adult social care providers to a range of useful guidance and resources around infection control procedures (IPCs). The document is applicable to care homes, home care providers and supported accommodation settings as well as commissioners. It includes a mixture of guidance documents, training courses, helpful resources and video recordings.
• Visiting arrangements in care homes: Camden Position (PDF) Statement by the Director of Public Health on visiting in care homes
• Guidance for those unwilling or unable to self-isolate (PDF) This is for those providing residential services to someone who has the symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) but is unable or unwilling to follow self-isolation instructions. This may include service users with learning difficulties, dementia, or multiple complex needs such as substance addiction and mental ill health.
• Guidance on providing unpaid care for friends and family (PDF)
  This is for unpaid carers living with the person they care for, as well as those who live in a different house to the person they provide unpaid care for.
• National (Government) COVID-19: adult social care guidance
• Information for the following service areas: care homes, domiciliary care, supported living, adults with learning disabilities and unpaid carers.
• National (Government) COVID-19: guidance for supported living. This is primarily intended for the managers, care and support workers, and other staff in supported living settings, but is also relevant to local authorities, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), primary care networks (PCNs), and community health services.

• National (Government) COVID-19: guidance for children's social care services

This is about safeguarding and protecting the welfare of vulnerable children. It is for all those delivering or with an interest in children’s social care, including local authorities, all adoption and fostering agencies, children’s homes, social workers, residential care providers and staff, and those with safeguarding responsibilities.
Guidance for Schools

• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) guidance for Nurseries, Early Years Settings and SEN (PDF)

Advice around the use of PPE by staff in early years or nursery settings, and staff who care for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

• National (Government) COVID-19: guidance for schools and other educational settings

A collection of guidance and advice about coronavirus (COVID-19) in educational settings for staff, parents and carers, pupils and students.

• NHS Test and Trace: what to do if you are contacted

National government guidance on what to do you individuals are told to isolate as a close contact. 

Camden’s Local Outbreak Prevention and Control Plan (PDF)

On 30 June, the Council published its Local Outbreak Prevention and Control Plan which explains how we will support all of our residents, communities and businesses to understand and follow public health advice to prevent and control the spread of coronavirus. This includes advice to have a test if you develop symptoms and if you test positive for COVID-19, to help trace people who you have been in contact with via NHS Test and Trace so that they can then self-isolate and help prevent further spread of infection.

The Plan also explains our role in working with local and national partners to investigate, manage and control local outbreaks to keep Camden safe.

Local outbreak planning together with testing and contact tracing - via NHS Test and Trace – will play a core role in our ongoing response to coronavirus.

The Plan will continue to be reviewed and updated as we learn more at a local and national level.