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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.

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.

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.

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.

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