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.
Guide: | About | Practical information | Approaching re-opening | Risk assessments | Download PDF |
Practical info – latest changes (December 2022)

About this guide
This guide about face-to-face adult day care provision in England is aimed at commissioners, providers and managers.

Practical information
These topics cover practical information you need to think about when re-opening services.

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.

Practice examples
Practice examples and tools to demonstrate what organisations have achieved.

Further information
Further information and resources from
Further information
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SCIE Open
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DHSC and UK Health Security AgencyOpen
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Other resources Open
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.



