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Essential advice on protecting your medicines during extreme heat and staying safe this summer.
This page advises those with responsibilities for people currently sleeping rough. This includes local authority teams for emergency preparedness, public health and rough sleeping, as well as non-governmental organisations, including those providing temporary accommodation or street-based support.
Some SIA front line licence holders are trained in physical intervention. This page recaps information from that training.
This page advises social care managers on how to reduce the risks of hot weather to the health of people they provide care for.
Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
FCDO travel advice for South Africa. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep birds safe from bird flu (avian influenza).
What happens if you're given a community sentence or community service. Find out about Community Payback and the rules of your community sentence.
Advice for British people with mental health needs, and their families and carers, while travelling or living abroad.
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