Remainder of Phase Two and Early Phase Three

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Today (Wednesday 24th June) the First Minister has announced a further update on Scotland’s route map out of lockdown.

The latest guidance confirms that the travel restriction will be relaxed (3rd July), we will be able to meet with up to two households indoors (10th July), as well as indoor hospitality and hairdressers to reopen (15th July).

This is welcome news and will stand us in good stead in our journey back to reality. However, this will only achieved if we continue to keep doing what we are doing and adhere to the current guidelines in place.

Please find below the First Minister’s plans in more detail and other key dates to look out for:

Monday 29 June

Indoor (non-office) workplaces resume once relevant guidance is implemented.

Includes: factories, warehouses, labs and research facilities.

Excludes: indoor workplaces due to open in Phase 3 (e.g. non-essential offices and call-centres).

Street-access retail can re-open once guidance is implemented. Interiors of shopping centres/malls remain closed for non-essential shops until Phase 3.

Outdoor markets can re-open once guidance is implemented.

Relaxation on restrictions on housing moves.

Outdoor sports courts can re-open.

Playgrounds can re-open.

Registration offices open for high priority tasks.

Marriages & civil partnerships allowed with minimal attendees - outdoors only.

Zoos and garden attractions can open for local access only (broadly within 5 miles) in this phase

Phase 2 - Indicative Dates

  • Travel distance restriction relaxed - 3 July

  • Self-catering accommodation and second homes (without shared facilities) permitted - 3 July

  • Outdoor hospitality (subject to physical distancing rules and public health advice) - 6 July

Phase 3 - Indicative Dates

  • People can meet in extended groups outdoors (with physical distancing) - 10 July

  • Households can meet indoors with up to a maximum of two other households (with physical distancing) - 10 July

  • Organised outdoor contact sports can resume for children and young people (subject to guidance) - 13 July

  • All dental practices begin to see registered patients for non-aerosol routine care. Work will begin to return aerosol generating procedures to practice safely - 13 July

  • Increasing capacity within community optometry practices for emergency and essential eye care - 13 July

  • Non-essential shops inside shopping centres can re-open (following guidance and with physical distancing) - 13 July

  • All holiday accommodation permitted (following relevant guidance) - 15 July

  • Indoor hospitality (subject to physical distancing rules and public health advice) - 15 July

  • Hairdressers and barbers - with enhanced hygiene measures - 15 July

  • Museums, galleries, cinemas, monuments, libraries - with physical distancing and other measures (e.g. ticketing in advance) - 15 July

  • All childcare providers can open subject to individual provider arrangements - 15 July

Phase 3 - Advice on dates at 9 July Review (unlikely to be before 23 July)

  • Non-essential offices and call centres can re-open following implementation of relevant guidance (including on physical distancing). Working from home and working flexibly remain the default

  • Universities and colleges - phased return with blended model of remote learning and limited on campus learning where a priority. Public health measures (including physical distancing) in place.

  • Places of worship can re-open for congregational services, communal prayer and contemplation with physical distancing and limited numbers

  • Easing of restrictions on attendance at funerals, marriages, civil partnerships, with physical distancing (limited numbers).

Following will be subject to further public health advice:

  • Live events (outdoors) - with physical distancing and restricted numbers.

  • Live events (indoors) - with physical distancing and restricted numbers.

  • Indoor gyms - with physical distancing.

  • Other personal retail services - with enhanced hygiene measures.

  • Other indoor entertainment venues (e.g. nightclubs, bingo, theatres, music venues).

  • Public services continue to scale up and re-open safely

Schools: 11 August: Schools should be preparing for children to be able to return to school full time in August (conditional upon ongoing scientific and health advice). This date may fall in Phase 3 or Phase 4, depending on broader progress. The blended model of schooling remains a contingency plan.

Shielding: The changes set out here do not apply to people who have been advised to shield. Their advice is to continue to shield until 31 July, although outdoor exercise and meeting people from another household in groups of up to 8 people is allowed, provided people follow strict physical distancing. We will continue to review the evidence leading up to 31 July and will continue to refine the advice as and when clinicians recommend it. By 31 July we will have put in place a new approach to shielding that will support people to make more individual decisions based on an understanding of their own risk profile and what matters to them, rather than blanket advice for the whole population.

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