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Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

COVID-19: Guidance for small marriages and civil partnerships

Page summary:
Guidance for people planning to get married or form a civil partnership in England.

Change made:
Updated in line with new guidance on 12 April.

Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19)

Page summary:
Find out how to make your workplace COVID-secure.

Change made:
Heritage locations – Updated to reflect Step 2 of the roadmap.

Guidance about the Events Research Programme (ERP), paving the way for larger audiences to attend sport, theatre and gigs safely this summer

Page summary:
Information for attendees and those hosting the ERP Pilot Events.

First published.

Department for Education

Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

Page summary:
What childcare services early years settings, childminders and local authorities need to provide during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Change made:
Guidance updated to reflect step 2 of the roadmap out of lockdown, on singing in parent and child groups, educational trips, and for staff and children who are clinically extremely vulnerable. Updated the face coverings section on visual communication, visors and exemptions.

Remaining university students to return to campus from Step 3 of the roadmap, no earlier than 17 May

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Government confirms all university students yet to return to in-person teaching will be able to do so from Step 3 of the roadmap

First published.

Higher education providers: coronavirus (COVID-19)

Page summary:
Information on students returning to or starting higher education during spring and summer 2021 terms and HE operational guidance.

Change made:
Updated the ‘Students returning to, and starting, higher education in the spring term’ guidance with information on when students can return to campus, educational visits and field trips, the opening of, and access to facilities, testing students and staff, transparent face coverings and face visors, shielding, travelling to the devolved administrations via a connecting flight in England and international students and coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination.

Providing school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

Page summary:
Guidance for schools and local authorities on school meals arrangements during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Change made:
Updated information about claiming for additional costs, the Winter Grant Scheme and the Covid Local Support Grant, plus further information about free meals in further education.

Department for International Trade

No updates at this time.

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