On 23rd March 2020, Scottish Government announced the implementation of a national ‘lockdown’, in a bid to flatten the curve of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, since this time recovery groups and/or activities have had to move online. Over the past few months Scotland has begun to ease these restrictions through phased measures with community venues due to reopen in the coming days, in order to resume activities safely which offer various support to people across Scotland.

In order to move online recovery meetings back to in person meetings and safely reopen community venues (such as community centres and church halls), we have created this guidance document to help support this transition whilst implementing Scotland’s Route Map and current guidelines from Scottish Government – these should be read in conjunction with this document.