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    Last updated on 15 January

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    General guidance 

    Vaccinations 

    Running your services

    Additional information and resources to support CTA members

    We’ve put together a number of resources available to download to support community transport providers as they begin to re-start their services. Some of these are resources that we’ve put together, and others are resources from CTA members that we thought are worth sharing. We’re adding new resources all the time, so keep checking back.

    The Latest Guidance from the UK and Devolved Governments

    Guidance from the UK Government, Scottish Government, Northern Ireland Executive and Welsh Government is no longer consistent. With lockdowns and different tiers of restrictions in place across the UK, each operator should ascertain if a journey is permissible in their local area. You can find the latest information for each nation below.

    In some cases, it may be that the place where a passenger is picked up is under different restrictions from the place at which the passenger will be set-down. An operator should make sure that the whole of the journey is permissible.

    Once you’ve taken a look at the rules and guidance in your area, you can click here for CTA’s advice on what to consider when running any services in the current environment.

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    Guidance for members in England 

    From 05 January, England has moved back into a national lockdown. This national approach replaces all previous approaches and guidance regarding tiers. You can find the UK Government’s main coronavirus guidance page here.

    This new national lockdown looks very similar to the one first introduced across the UK in March 2020, so you should consider reintroducing the stringent measures you undertook at that time. There are many activities in which passengers can no longer take part, so consider how best to support them to fulfil these needs in other ways. The full list of what is allowed, including rules for public transport usage and car sharing is all included. We would recommend fully reading the guidance above to understand the situation in detail.

    What services am I allowed to run? What are the regulations on shielding?

    You can find out more about the services that you’re able to run as well as the latest guidance on shielding on our FAQ page here. 

    Transport specific guidance

    You can find the UK Government’s guidance on how to safely run and use public transport at the links below.

    Other Guidance from the UK Government

    You can find other relevant guidance from the UK Government using the links below:

    Once you’ve taken a look at the rules and guidance, you can click here for CTA’s advice on what to consider when running any services in the current environment.

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    Guidance for members in Wales 

    On 16 December, the First Minister announced that the current coronavirus conditions mean that Wales has met the criteria in the new traffic-light Coronavirus Control Plan to move to alert level four. This was followed by further restrictions announced on 19 December, bringing forward the planned “tighter restrictions on household mixing, staying-at-home, holiday accommodation and travel”. Welsh Government’s advice is that you must: 

    • stay at home 
    • meet only the people you live with 
    • work from home if you can 
    • wear a face covering where required 
    • wash your hands regularly 
    • stay 2 metres from anyone you do not live with 

    You can find the Welsh Government’s main coronavirus guidance page here.

    You can find the Welsh Government’s FAQs on their current guidance here.

    What services am I allowed to run? 

    The guidance states that people should not travel “unless [they have a] reasonable excuse.” The following are considered to be reasonable excuses for leaving home at alert level 4: 

    • to exercise, alone or with members of your household or support bubble. This must be done locally unless there is a reason, such as a specific health condition or mobility issue, that would require driving to the nearest convenient, accessible location. . 
    • to meet the other people in your support bubble if you have one 
    • to escape a risk of illness or injury, such as for victims or people at risk of domestic abuse 
    • to provide or receive emergency services 
    • to attend a place of worship 
    • to attend a wedding, civil partnership or funeral if you are invited 
    • to vote in an election 
    • for elite athletes, to train or compete (or for others, to provide coaching or other similar support to an elite athlete) 

    There are other reasons listed in the regulations why you can leave home if it is “reasonably necessary” and there is “no practicable alternative”. The regulations do not contain a complete list of circumstances in which this might arise, but they do contain examples which you can see here. 

    As this list is not exhaustive it is impossible for us to state categorically what services you would/would not be able to run. However, the examples listed cover very similar restrictions to the first lockdown in 2020, so you should consider reintroducing the stringent measures you undertook at that time. 

    Transport Specific Guidance 

    You can find the Welsh Government’s guidance public transport at the links below: 

    You can find the Welsh Government’s guidance for operating public transport here. 

    You can find the Welsh Government’s guidance for passengers here.

    Once you’ve taken a look at the rules and guidance in your area, you can click here for CTA’s advice on what to consider when running any services in the current environment.

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    Guidance for members in Scotland

    From 05 January, mainland Scotland will move from level 4 to a temporary lockdown, with new guidance to stay at home except for essential purposes. Some islands will remain at level 3.  You can find the Scottish Government’s main coronavirus guidance page here.

    Tiers 3 and 4 have the strictest limits on transport, particularly on journeys entering different localities. For all intents and purposes, whichever tier you are in, you should continue to offer the safest service possible. This means maintaining an appropriate distance in the vehicle and shared workspaces, operating enhanced cleaning procedures and having sensitive conversations with staff, passengers and volunteers about their safety accessing the service. 

    Many areas have gone into a more severe tier, and we would recommend reviewing your local tier and respective local guidelines. You can find out more about Scotland’s coronavirus local tier levels here.

    What services am I allowed to run? 

    You can find out more about the services that you’re able to run under the restrictions on our FAQ page here. 

    Transport Specific Guidance 

    The Scottish Government have published new guidance on when people should and shouldn’t travel here. This includes a list of limited exceptions from the guidance to not travel into our out of level 3 and 4 areas.

    Once you’ve taken a look at the rules and guidance in your area, you can click here for CTA’s advice on what to consider when running any services in the current environment.

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    Guidance for members in Northern Ireland

    On 26 December, following an increase in the number of COVID cases, additional restrictions were introduced in Northern Ireland. You can find the Northern Ireland Executive’s coronavirus guidance here and details of the restrictions here. 

    What services am I allowed to run? 

    The NI Executive have stated that people should avoid all unnecessary travel. Where travel is necessary for work, education and other essential purposes, people are asked to walk, cycle or use private transport, shared only with members of their household where possible. 

    You can find the NI Executive’s guidance for transport operators here.

    You can find the NI Executive’s guidance for passengers here.

    You can find out more about the services that you’re able to run under the restrictions on our FAQ page here. 

    Once you’ve taken a look at the rules and guidance in your area, you can click here for CTA’s advice on what to consider when running any services in the current environment.

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    What sort of journeys can I currently offer?

    The journeys you can offer depend on the regulations where you are – you can find the guidance for  England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland above as well as our FAQs looking at what the guidance means for members in different areas here.

    Once you’ve taken a look at the rules and guidance in your area, you can click here for CTA’s advice on what to consider when running any services in the current environment.

    What is CTA’s guidance on community transport providers taking people to get vaccinated? 

    With the COVID-19 vaccination programme now being rolled out, many community transport providers are getting involved with making sure that members of their community can access the vaccine. It is anticipated that there will be a large number of individuals in the higher risk categories who need to travel to vaccination and test centres, who may need to call upon CT services. This is a situation that is likely to continue for several months into 2021.

    We’ve put together a number of indicators and guidelines to support organisations as they begin to provide transport for the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out. As the vaccination programme develops we will be adding new guidance, so check back here for any updates.

    Download our transport to vaccination guidance

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    Am I allowed to leave the house to operate/coordinate any services we’re running?

    Guidance still states that everyone that can work from home should still work from home. However, for most who work in the community transport sector, working from home is not practical. If you can’t work from home, you are therefore allowed to travel to your place of work to run your services.

    Please note this is with the proviso that you do not have to self-isolate due to yourself or anyone in your household displaying symptoms of coronavirus or coming into contact with someone who has symptoms, or the virus itself. If anyone involved in running your services should be self-isolating due to these reasons, they should not be coming into work.

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    Running your services safely

    Our guidance on running your services

    The guidance below looks at our recommendations of what you need to consider when running any services under your local COVID-19 restrictions.

    Carrying passengers during the COVID-19 crisis is essentially a health and safety concern and as a CT operator you should work within your existing health and safety framework. Your designated health and safety representative should ensure that they are familiar with the range of government & official guidance that has been issued, and keep abreast of the frequent updates. 

    You should ensure that at least one person is delegated the role of frequently checking guidance and ascertaining what can and cannot be undertaken in your area of operation. As different rules and restrictions remain in place across the country and local authority areas, changes are happening frequently and often at short notice.    

    Different regulations are in place in different parts of the UK, and changes are happening frequently and with short notice. For more information on the rules for your area, take a look at your country’s specific advice here. You can also get in touch with the CTA advice service for support.

    CTA has worked with the TAS Partnership to provide detailed guidance on how to safely run any services you’re operating. If you want to look at a specific topic, you can jump to it by clicking the links below. 

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    Risk assessment and risk management

    As the situation is changing frequently, it’s important to consider creating a new risk assessment every time your local tier or restrictions change.   

    Although risk assessments should always target the specific circumstances of each operation, there is a number of issues that will commonly affect most operators:

    • Older people and those with underlying health issues – given that most CT beneficiaries and some staff/volunteers fall into these categories, special attention should be paid to them
    • Passengers – ensuring customers’ basic needs are met and that they’re not at risk of loneliness if unable to travel
    • Vehicles – accommodating passengers while keeping social distance (boarding/alighting, seating layout), minimizing direct contact (cash handling, passenger assistance), cleaning and PPE
    • Drivers/Passenger assistants – regular monitoring of health and wellbeing, social distance in the office/depot, provision of PPE

    With the support of CTA members from across the UK, CTA have produced community transport specific templates and resources relating to COVID-19 risk assessments which CTA members can download from ctauk.org/advice-resources/risk-assessment-and-management.

    If you’re not a CTA member, you can still download our ‘How To’ guide for risk assessments, as well as a COVID-19 specific risk assessment template below.

    Download our risk assessment ‘how to’ guide here

    Download our COVID-19 specific risk assessment template here

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    General information on re-starting services

    The COVID-19 crisis is a constantly changing situation, which means that you’ll need to review your organisation’s circumstances weekly, if not daily, based on the new information emerging in your area and your own operational experience. Here’s some actions you should put into place that’ll help you meet those challenges:

    • Undertake new risk assessments – these should detail all the steps that you’ve taken to reduce/eliminate the likelihood of virus transmission.
    • Update risk registers/documentation
    • Ensure that your reporting and escalation systems are responsive and robust
    • If you are in an area that restricts travel, your organisation should have a policy on what constitutes an ‘essential or necessary journey’ which will assist your risk management process.
    • If you operate in an area with less stringent restrictions, you should set a policy on what journeys you are prepared to undertake. You can set your own level of risk. However, you may want to agree your definition of allowable journey with your funder. 
    • For car schemes, in most of the UK the local guidance is that only ‘essential or necessary journeys’ should be made in shared cars. 
    • Risk assessments should take into account the age and health profile of passengers. You may also want to undertake individual risk assessments for vulnerable passengers. 
    • Keep in active, regular and open communication with your trustee board – they should always be aware of new developments taking place in order to make informed decisions
    • Keep in active, regular and open communication with stakeholders and funders – they should be aware of your organisation’s service levels and changes put in place, and make sure those will not conflict with any contract terms
    • Keep in active, regular and open communication with staff, volunteers and beneficiaries – they should always be aware of the steps implemented to safeguard them
    • Make necessary adjustments to vehicles, buildings, systems and procedures – this may include an investment in materials that you may not have needed before (e.g. PPE)
    • Check all insurances to ensure cover is maintained
    • Before putting any changes to services into action, make sure you understand the levels of financial risk you will incur by doing so, and always seek out the various support fund that have been made available
    • If offering new types of services, always check your VAT situation
    • Wherever possible, maintain any activities that contribute to the safety of your operation (e.g. MiDAS, PATS, CPC, vehicle and equipment inspection and maintenance)

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    Workplace guidance information 

    Any workplaces must follow social distancing guidance.

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    Social Distancing and the Rule of Six

    The principle of social distancing has been the universally adopted measure to contain the spread of COVID-19 with a two metre gap to be maintained where possible between any two or more people who do not live in the same household. All safety measures should embrace this rule but recognising that there are certain situations where this distance is physically impossible to maintain.  

    For England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, the governments have altered the rule to either two metres or one metre plus, where the ‘plus’ means that additional mitigation measures are in place. In the case of CT operations, in addition to our extra sanitisation procedures these measures should include the use of face coverings by passengers and staff (when not driving). In implementing this relaxation, for example in determining how many seats to make available to passengers in a minibus, each operator will need to balance the needs of its passengers against the compromises that might be necessary when providing journeys. Note that you are concerned with managing risk to a reasonable level, not attempting to eliminate it.  

    Currently the two metre rule remains in force for Wales. This rule may be reviewed at a local level in England or devolved level across the UK. We will endeavour to keep this updated as government advice changes, however you should check the current position and advice in your area.  

    The Rule of Six may also play a factor in how you transport passengers. England, Scotland and Northern Ireland apply the rule differently and Wales does not have such a rule at present.  

    All four guidance documents do not include public transport in the rule of six. That said, they specify whether people can or cannot meet in each other’s homes. If meeting in a home is not allowed in your area of operation, then you should not transport passengers to private homes. It may be worth supporting them to meet in an outdoor or public area, it is important to balance respect for the restrictions whilst promoting social inclusion.   

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    Face Coverings

    Face coverings are now compulsory on public transport and in private hire vehicles and taxis in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Although the new rules do not explicitly mention community transport services delivered under a section 19 or 10B permit, CTA strongly recommend that the same guidelines are followed and passengers are required to wear a face covering unless they fall under one of the recognised exemptions. As these regulations include buses, this will be a legal requirement for those operating community transport services under a section 22 permit.   

    The requirements do not apply to:  

    • School transport services:  
      • In England and Wales, children under the age of 11 are exempt in all circumstances. 
      • In Northern Ireland, children under 13 are exempt 
      • In Scotland, children over five must wear face coverings on transport to and from school.
    • In some parts of the UK, stations, stops and interchanges are exempt, but not for the whole of the UK, for instance they must be worn in stations and at bus stops in Northern Ireland. You should check local restrictions.

    There are also circumstances where a passenger may be exempt from the requirements due to a reasonable excuse, which may include:  

    • Where they cannot put on, wear, or remove a face covering without severe distress or because of any physical or mental illness or impairment, or disability (within the meaning of section 6 of the Equality Act 2010). 
    • Where they are travelling with, or providing assistance to, another person who relies on lip-reading to communicate. 
    • Where they remove the face covering to avoid harm or injury, or the risk of harm or injury, to themselves or others. 
    • Where they are travelling to avoid injury, or to escape a risk of harm, and do not have a face covering with them. 
    • To eat or drink where it is reasonably necessary to do so. 
    • Where they have to remove their face covering to take medication. 
      Where they are requested to remove the face covering by a constable or other relevant person.

    A face covering covers a person’s nose and mouth and can be as simple as a scarf or a bandana that ties behind the head. There are useful guides online which show you how a face covering can be made at home. 

    Please note that face coverings and face shields are not the same thing. For England and Northern Ireland, the guidance does not mention face shields, in Wales guidance specifically states that the covering must be made of cloth, therefore a shield is not permissible. In Scotland a face shield is deemed a suitable alternative provided it covers the whole face. 

    When you are writing your risk assessment and setting policy on face overings you should look at the restrictions in your area:

    If you are using any medical Personal Protective Equipment, you can find the UK Government’s guidance on PPE use here. It is aimed mainly towards medical professionals, but some elements may be useful for community transport providers running essential services.

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    Supporting Staff and Volunteers

    Practical measures should be put into place in order to protect staff and volunteers, and you should be proactive in ensuring that those measures are complied with. Here’s our recommendations:

    • Provide PPE (despite face coverings being optional, these should still be provided, as well as gloves and on board cleaning materials) and adapt vehicles (protective screens)
    • Monitor the health of frontline staff/volunteers closely, and (as and when possible) ensure they undergo tests
    • Ensure that safety measures are put in place in order to better manage situations where staff/volunteers come into contact with each other (e.g. car sharing, shared office/depot spaces such as kitchens, toilets and break rooms)
    • Keep an open line of communication with each member of your team. This will help you assess how comfortable they are in continuing to provide the services, what support they may need from you and if any existing underlying health issues may be a concern (this could extend to their immediate household).
    • Evaluate if there’s a need to deploy drivers deemed to be at risk due to age (over 70s) and/or health issues – bear in mind that some insurance companies have now withheld cover from drivers over 70 for CT operations.
    • For those volunteer drivers deemed at risk due to age and other health issues, find other volunteering opportunities such as administration they could do at home or a befriending service.

    Resources for supporting your staff and volunteers 

    We’ve put together a number of resources on supporting your staff and volunteers as you re-start services. As with the risk assessment guide above, we’re making these usually member only resources are open access to help get services back up and running. If you’re using these resources and aren’t a CTA member, you can find more information about CTA membership here.

    How-to guide: supporting volunteers as services restart 

    This how to guide on supporting volunteers as services restart looks at the following topics:

      • Retaining new volunteers who joined during lock-down
      • Volunteer safety and training
      • Supporting vulnerable volunteers
      • Checklist for managing volunteers during COVID-19
      • Other sources of guidance

    Download the how-to guide here. 

    Checklists and guidance for community transport drivers

    Regardless of what tier or extremity of lockdown you are currently operating in, we highly recommend you maintain the highest possible levels of cleanliness and safety precautions.   If any drivers are just now returning from furlough, or are new to your team, you might want to share our returning drivers checklist.   

    Our returning drivers checklist can be given to drivers and signed to show they understand your responsibilities and their responsibilities wen operating a services.

    Our start of shift checklist for drivers can be given to drivers and signed to show they have taken the necessary safety precautions ahead of their journey.

    Download our returning drivers checklist

    Download our start of shift check-list

    Training 

    All frontline staff/volunteers should be given ongoing training on operational procedures and safety measures. It is also important that you communicate the risk scenarios identified to your staff/volunteers and provide them with training on how to deal with potential occurrences (e.g. contact with persons showing symptoms, lost property, queues at shops).  

    Training and associated risk assessments should be tailored for your local restrictions or tier system, and updated each time these change.   

    Regular weekly briefings are recommended, especially with frontline staff. Make sure you keep records of all communications, as well as training provided. If more specialised knowledge is required, always seek guidance and training input from the relevant experts.  

    Older volunteers 

    When considering how you want to manage volunteers returning, you should be aware that some individuals will have been classed as clinically extremely vulnerable. People in this category will have received a letter from their GP advising them to shield during lockdown. The government is advising that these individuals do not need to shield at the moment, but if local lockdowns are in place in your area you should check for any specific restrictions.  

    Now that shielding is no longer in place there is nothing explicitly preventing these individuals – or people more generally who are over 70 – from getting into/back to volunteering with their local community transport provider. However, it is essential that operators take care to complete a thorough risk assessment as many people in this group could be at greater risk if they were to be infected with COVID-19, in particular those people with additional health conditions. We would recommend that community transport providers discuss these increased risks with their volunteers and a clear agreement and control measures are put in place before any volunteer work commences.  

    It may not be helpful to create a blanket policy about whether to allow older volunteers to return or not. Instead, it may be more appropriate to consider each volunteer individually, the role they are volunteering for, and to create a specific risk assessment for each one. Although this process may be time consuming, it may help both you as an operator and the volunteer to feel more confident.  

    Where possible you should first consider offering volunteering roles which can be done from home. You could also consider offering roles where maintaining social distancing is easier, such as making deliveries. Where social distancing is not possible you will need to carefully assess what control measures you can put in place and whether you are then left with an acceptable level of risk. It may be worth discussing this with your insurers to understand what cover you have in place regarding volunteers. NCVO have produced some guidance about insurance for volunteers and have also shared a useful webinar about Covid-19 and managing risks.  

    Ultimately it is for the volunteer to decide, and your duty to that volunteer is to clearly communicate all the risks and satisfy yourself that the volunteer knows and understands the level of risk they are undertaking before they continue with their volunteer work.  

    As with the risk assessment guide above, we’re making these usually member only resources open access to help get services back up and running. If you’re using these resources and aren’t a CTA member, you can find more information about CTA membership here.  

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    How do we make our vehicles as safe as possible?

    Vehicles are a fundamental component of the whole CT operation, and you should be very thorough at assessing potential risks. When implementing safety measures, consider the following:

    • Cleanliness – sanitized wiping of all contact surfaces (seats, handles, grabs, seatbelts, wheelchair handles) between each passenger, deep cleaning after each shift
    • Internal arrangements – where possible, fitting of protective screens between the passenger and driver, and for the passenger seating areas, removal (or cordoning out of use) of seats or spacing out of seats that are left in use
    • Minimising/eliminating cash handling – this may mean using a credit/account system or adding facilities for receiving contactless card payments
    • Always consider if any changes you have made will impact on accessibility levels (e.g. emergency evacuation procedures)
    • Car schemes have very limited ability to meet social distancing requirements; however cars should be subject to sanitised cleaning and, where possible, passengers should be seated in the rear nearside seat. Training should be provided to volunteer drivers using their own vehicles on how to safely and effectively clean their vehicle.

    Please note: driver screens are intended to create a barrier against directly expelled droplets from coughs and sneezes or face to face conversation. They are not intended to encapsulate the driver or prevent all air flow.

    Community car schemes

    Whilst the guidance in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland no longer states that public transport must only be used for essential journeys, this is not the case for guidance on car sharing – the ‘essential journey’ qualification is still in place for car-sharing guidance, though not in taxi guidance.

    For more information on what you need to consider when running car scheme journeys, take a look at our more detailed guidance for community car schemes below.

    Download our community car scheme guidance

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    Supporting passengers

    It is imperative that operations are planned and delivered with the safety of passengers in mind. This means following strict social distancing and hygiene protocols. Here’s our advice on keeping passengers safe when resuming services:

    • Regularly communicate with passengers by informing them of your organisation’s COVID-19 policies – this includes the requirements that they must meet in order to be carried and that the service will be declined if a person (or anyone else in their household) is showing symptoms   
    • Taking account of government advice, make clear which kinds of journey are deemed allowable, necessary or essential and only agree to provide these services – this may vary depending upon the vehicle used and which part of the UK you are operating in. For example, a long journey in a car involves proportionately greater risk (to driver and passenger) of infection than a shorter journey in a minibus. But it will be reasonable (provided you have put in place the preventative hygiene measures identified above) to undertake the car journey where, for example, this is to facilitate a health appointment because the health risks from missing the appointment are likely to be greater than the minimal risk that arises from making the journey. Both driver and passenger should understand the risk and be making that journey on a voluntary basis.   
    • If you’re obliged (section 22 services or instructions from your commissioner/funder) or following appropriate risk assessments adopted a policy that passengers must cover their faces while travelling, it is a good idea to have a stock of these on the vehicle. It is CTA’s view that and organisations default policy should be ‘no face covering, no journey’, but each organisation should set its own policy, taking account of exemptions were appropriate.   
    • Where passengers require assistance, ensure that you understand what this will involve and that drivers agree to provide it. Alternatively, check if the passenger can be accompanied by another member of the household to provide any physical assistance.  
    • For passengers who need a high degree of physical assistance, the use of a wheelchair to get them into and off the vehicle may be safer, as the person is facing away from the driver/assistant and physical contact is limited. This may need to be approached sensitively with the passengers.

    We’ve put together information for passengers which we recommend they read to understand their responsibilities and your responsibilities on board a service. Download this resource here.

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    Funding programmes in response to coronavirus 

    We know that funding is a real concern for community transport providers at the moment, with many of their sources of income no longer being viable in the face of coronavirus, and many of their overheads still in place.

    There are however, a number of different funding sources that are offering emergency funding to charities and organisations going through these sorts of difficulties.

    We’ve put together a list of other potentially useful funds at ctauk.org/coronavirus-funding-and-resources/.

    Given the rapidly changing situation, there are new programmes emerging regularly so this is not an exhaustive list and we will be updating it with new information, so keep checking back.

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    What other advice is out there?

    As mentioned above, it’s important to keep up to date with the latest advice using the links on the first page of this document.

    NCVO have also produced advice and resources for voluntary organisations concerned about coronavirus including risk management processes and organisational planning: 

    There is also specific advice and information from various other charities:  

    • The National Eczema Society has offered advice on handwashing techniques for people with eczema and other skin conditions.  
    • SignHealth has created British Sign Language (BSL) videos to help deaf BSL users either working in charities or receiving support.  
    • Carers UK has produced recommendations for carers.  
    • Full Fact has generated a fact check page on covid-19 to help dispel any false information. 

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    The CTA Advice Service

    CTA Advice Service: The CTA team are currently working remotely, so to ensure you speak to the right person first time, please email advice@ctauk.org to receive a call back for advice and support. Our advice service operates 10-4pm Monday-Friday.

    Advice Service Drop-in: due to the changing nature of the situation, our advice team will be holding a weekly online drop-in where members can join a video call to talk to the team and each other about the latest guidance and ask any questions. You can find a recap of the latest session, along with details of our next call on ctauk.org/blog.

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    CTA Advice Service: The CTA team are currently working remotely, so to ensure you speak to the right person first time, please email advice@ctauk.org to receive a call back for advice and support. Our advice service operates 10-4pm Monday-Friday.

    Advice Service Drop-in: due to the changing nature of the situation, our advice team will be holding a weekly online drop-in where members can join a video call to talk to the team and each other about the latest guidance and ask any questions. You can find a recap of the latest session, along with details of our next call on ctauk.org/blog.