Further details on the easing of lockdown in Scotland were released today, including dates for the reopening of hairdressers, restaurants, beer gardens and workplaces.
Following a statement from the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, a document from the Scottish Government states: “In light of the progress made, we consider that it is now appropriate to provide indicative dates for the remainder of Phase 2 and early Phase 3, to assist businesses, individuals and organisations to plan for the changes that will come.
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“These indicative dates will be confirmed when we successfully pass the relevant review points: 2 July for the later Phase 2 measures and 9 July for the early Phase 3 measures.
“Our progress to the next phase depends on meeting criteria based on World Health Organisation conditions – to ensure that we do not further ease restrictions unless it is safe to do so. By suppressing the virus in this way, we are building a solid foundation for a stronger recovery as we emerge from the crisis.
“This requires continued compliance with the rules – hard as that may seem sometimes – because it is this compliance, the sum of our individual actions, that is suppressing the virus and enabling us to recover more sustainably.”
The dates provided are below.
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.