Other COVID-19 communications : Easy Read,other languages, and BSL

Here are two new illustrated guides to support families and carers of people with learning disabilities, as well as managers of learning disability services. This might also be useful for those without learning disabilities:

Jack plans ahead for coronavirus

This is about deciding together (in advance) whether someone should go into hospital when they get ill with the virus, and what to think about when they are ill (or dying) at home or in hospital.

When someone dies from coronavirus

This guide is about supporting people with learning disabilities when someone they love dies at this time of social isolation

Advice from Gov.UK

Stay at home: guidance for households with possible coronavirus (COVID-19) infection
12 March 2020

And in different languages

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of these documents in a more accessible format, please email publications@phe.gov.uk  by stating what assistive technology you use.

Easy read, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese simplified (Mandarin), Chinese traditional (Cantonese), French, Gujerati, Polish,Portuguese, Punjabi, Urdu and Welsh

British Sign Language videos

from Sign Health website

https://signhealth.org.uk/resources/coronavirus/

from BTM website

https://www.btm.org.uk/resource-category/accessible-information-about-coronavirus/

from the BTM Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/watch/BTMProjects/