Urgent Message
It is essential, to stop the spread of transmission of coronavirus, that people who can work from home do work from home. This is not business as usual and it is vital that this support being offered is only accessed by those who absolutely require it to enable NHS and other critical services to function.
· Health and care workers directly supporting COVID-19 response and associated staff
· Workers supporting life-threatening emergency work as well as critical primary and community care provision
· Staff of energy suppliers
· Staff, including teachers and early years workers, providing childcare and learning for other key workers and staff who support school buildings
· Emergency services staff, including police, fire and rescue, prison officers
· Military personnel
· Social workers
· Oil, gas, electricity and water and sewerage workers
· Logistics staff including drivers and transport workers
· Food and other necessary goods staff including food production, processing, distribution, sale, delivery as well as those essential to the provision of hygienic and veterinary medicines
· Staff in essential financial service provision including: banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure; IT and data infrastructure; postal services; civil nuclear, chemicals and telecommunications; payment providers; waste disposal.
· Journalists and broadcasters
· Waste services staff
· Fleet services staff
· Cemeteries staff
· Property repairs and maintenance staff including frontline workers of Mears and Saltire
· Roads and lighting maintenance staff including staff of Amey
· Facility support services including cleaning, catering, school crossing patrollers and janitorial staff
· Human resources staff including payroll and employee service centre
· IT staff
· Communications staff
· Finance staff including welfare, revenue and benefits staff and municipal bank staff
· Registration staff
· Essential legal services
· Psychological services staff
· Pupils who have already been instructed by their schools to attend at a specific time for coursework purposes.
Other S4, S5 and S6 pupils will be contacted by schools in due course to arrange completion of coursework. Schools have already informed pupils about arrangements for online learning.