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Winter pressures: Isolation for social care staff
Created: 14/12/2021Donna Bell, Director of Mental Wellbeing and Social Care, has written a letter to all of Scotland's social care staff with information on self-isolation arrangements, amid the rising cases of the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. This was discussed at the Workforce Senior Leadership Group this afternoon and colleagues sought further clarity on the arrangements.
The letter outlines that the current guidance DL(2021)24 - Update on isolation exemptions for Health and Social Care staff for social care (and healthcare staff) should still be applied with one important addition.
This existing isolation policy for staff who are household or passing contacts of Covid-19 positive cases exempts them from the requirement to self-isolate for 10 days when they:
An important addition to this is that staff must be
Further detail is contained in this letter.