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Delivering safe, face-to-face adult day care - SCIE
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Delivering safe, face-to-face adult day care
Updated: March 2023
This guide aims to support you, day care managers, social workers, commissioners and providers, to restart or continue activities. It is focused on community-based day services, day centres (with and without personal care), including specialised day centre environments, and those with outdoor spaces.
About this guide
This guide is about face-to-face adult day care provision in England is aimed at commissioners, providers and managers.
Practical information
A series of topics covering practical information you need to think about when re-opening services.
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Approaching re-opening
Discusses starting points and the different types of conversations that need to take place.
Risk assessments
Advice on the different risk assessments needed when preparing to deliver safe adult day care.
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Practice examples
Practice examples and tools to demonstrate what organisations have achieved.
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Delivering safe, face-to-face adult day care
Download this pdf guide which aims to support you, day care managers, social workers, commissioners and
providers, to restart or continue activities.
Further information
DHSC and UK Health Security Agency
Coronavirus: Guidance and support
Other resources
Mental Capacity Act: Code of practice
Carers UK: Carer’s assessment
King’s College London: Helping adult day centres to unlock lockdown
King’s College London: Day centre research forum
NHS Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice
Human Rights Act 1998
This guidance was developed in collaboration with Public Health England, the Local Government Association and Kings’s College London as part of the NIHR, Applied Research Collaboration, South London.