Care homes and housing

COVID-19 update

Updated: 19 July 2021

Safety measures and visiting arrangements

We are encouraging care homes to maintain current practices and measures to keep staff and residents as safe as possible. We are advising care homes to keep existing visiting arrangements, including numbers of visitors as well as their existing cleaning regimes and PPE arrangements.

We are giving this advice due to the high number of cases in South Tyneside. We will regularly review this advice.

As each care home is different, visiting arrangements are slightly different for each home. Contact the individual care home for details of their visiting arrangements.

Latest Government guidance:

• GOV.UK: Visiting care homes 
• GOV.UK: Visits out of care homes
• GOV.UK: Protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable
• GOV.UK: Admission and care of people in care homes

Information for care providers

See information for care providers.