Lockdown Advice for Businesses and Organisations

• All non-essential premises must now close.
• Takeaway and delivery services may remain open and operational in line with health guidance.
• Online retail is still open and encouraged and postal and delivery service will run as normal.
• Retail and public premises which we expect to remain open must:
  • Ensure a distance of two meters between customers and shop assistants.
  • Let people enter the shop only in small groups, to ensure that spaces are not crowded.
  • Queue control is required outside of shops and other essential premises that remain open.
• Parks will remain open but only for individuals and households to exercise once a day.
• Communal spaces within parks such as playgrounds and football pitches will be closed.

Sector	Must close …	Can remain open …
Food and drink	Close: restaurants, cafes, workplace canteens, public houses, bars and nightclubs, including bars in hotels or members clubs.	Exceptions: Food delivery and takeaway, cafés or canteens at hospitals, care homes or schools; prison and military canteens; services providing food or drink to the homeless.
Retail	Close: hair, beauty and nail salons, including piercing and tattoo parlours, massage parlours, auction houses, car showrooms and almost all retail. Exceptions: Supermarkets and other food shops, health shops, pharmacies including non-dispensing pharmacies,	Exceptions: petrol stations, bicycle shops, home and hardware shops, launderettes and dry cleaners, bicycle shops, garages, car rentals, pet shops, corner shops, newsagents, post offices, banks, outdoor and indoor markets market stalls which offer essential retail.
Hotels	Close: hotels, hostels, BnBs, campsites and boarding houses for commercial use and caravan parks/sites for commercial uses. Exception: Where people live in these as interim abodes whilst their primary residence is unavailable they may continue to do so.	Exception: Key workers can continue to stay in hotels or similar where required. Where people live permanently in caravan parks or are staying in caravan parks as interim abodes where their primary residence is not available, they may continue to do so.
Non-residential institutions	Close: libraries, community centres, youth centres and similar, places of worship for services and cinemas, theatres and concert halls. Exception: Community centres may remain open for the purpose of hosting essential voluntary or public services, such as food banks or homeless services.	Exception: Funerals following the social distancing guidance; places of worship should remain open for solitary prayer. Live streaming of a service without audience would be permissible. Live streaming of a theatre or musical performance by a small group could be permissible with social distancing observed.
Assembly and Leisure	Close: museums and galleries, bingo halls, casinos and betting shops, Spas, Skating rinks, fitness studios, gyms, swimming pools or other indoor leisure centres, arcades, bowling alleys, soft play centres and similar.	No exceptions
Outdoor recreation	Close: enclosed spaces in parks, including playgrounds, sports courts and pitches, and outdoor gyms or similar.	No exceptions
These measures will be enforced by prohibition notices and unlimited fines if necessary.	Please comply to protect the NHS and save lives.	Click here for the full detailed guidance

Community Mutual Aid

Community aid organisations can continue to provide support to local people but this should NOT be done in groups. Strict social distancing and hygiene rules must be observed. Thank you for your commitment. East Neuk Community Emergency Planning Team covers St Monans. They may be contacted for help with groceries, medicine collection etc please contact them.

Isolation Notes for Employers

If you have been told to stay at home because of coronavirus and you need a note for your employer you can get an isolation note online. This service is only for people who:

• have symptoms of coronavirus and have used the 111 online coronavirus service
• have been told by a healthcare professional they have symptoms of coronavirus
• live with someone who has symptoms of coronavirus
  

Please use this service to take pressure off NHS 24 (111). You can also use this service for someone else.  It is an NHS England site but it works in Scotland too. https://111.nhs.uk/isolation-note

If you have to stay at home because you are in a vulnerable group but feel well enough to work, ask your employer if you can work from home. If you can work from home, you will not need an isolation note.

These notes have been provided via the offices of Wendy Chamberlain MP and Willie Rennie MSP. They can be contacted by email at: Wendy.chamberlain.mp@parliament.uk / Willie.rennie.msp@parliament.scot or by phone on 01334 656361