Delivering safe, face-to-face adult day care - SCIE Skip to content Search our site 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. Explore the topics 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. Read the advice Practice examples Practice examples and tools to demonstrate what organisations have achieved. See the examples 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.