Testing for Day Centre workers

• Regular testing should take palace for all individuals attending or working at adult day centres
• Staff: should test weekly using PCR tests and twice weekly lateral flow testing 
• Service users – that are able to test should test weekly with lateral flow tests, 3-4 days apart.   If a service user is only attending once a week that they need to test on that day.   
• Day Centres must be signed up to the government scheme via self-referral portal to gain access to testing
• once centres are approved on their system, tests kits can be ordered every 21 days for their workers and service users
• from 1 July adult day care centres can use a multiple-registrations spreadsheet (bulk upload). The spreadsheet will let you register both PCR test kits and rapid lateral flow tests at the same time
• read the guidance and download the multiple registration spreadsheet to record the details of people you’ve tested for coronavirus on that day
• this is an additional option and organisations can still upload their testing data using the self-registration / reporting route

Read the full guidance for regular testing for adult day centres in England for further information. 

Guidance for Day Centres

Please review the updated Resources for Day Centres document for information on: 

• Risk assessments and how to mitigate spread.
• Prevent Exposure 
• Prevent infection  
• Testing 
• Transport 
• Vaccination
• Response to Infection: COVID-19 symptoms in service user/staff