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)

The government has updated requirements for mask wearing by social care staff, this guide has been updated to reflect this and other recent changes. View the latest practical advice.
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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

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.