Coronavirus - accessible guidance
We want to ensure that our advice and guidance on coronavirus is available and accessible for everyone.
Here you will find links to accessible and easy to read documents, plus guidance in other languages:
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Guidance during the month of Ramadan
Guidance on social distancing and for vulnerable people
Guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection
Mencap easy read guide for coronavirus
How to stay safe guide (Photosymbols)
Keeping away from other people - an easy read guide
Guidance for gypsy, traveller and liveaboard boater households
Coronavirus fact sheet for children
Multilingual Covid Guidance
- Gov.uk guidance on shielding and protecting extremely vulnerable persons in English, Arabic, Bengali, French, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese- Mandarin, Traditional Chinese- Cantonese, Urdu and Welsh.
- NHS England at risk patient letter in English, Arabic, Bengali, French, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese- Mandarin, Traditional Chinese- Cantonese and Urdu.
- Coronavirus Translated Posters These include the following languages: Polish, Russian, Punjab, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Romanian and Roma (for the Roma travelling community).
- Doctors of the world - Covid-19 information in 44 languages.
- The Prime Minister’s letter and national door drop leaflet – with translations and alternative formats.
- Household isolation - a campaign for people with even mild symptoms to act immediately and not contact anyone outside their household. Alternative formats now available including BSL videos.
- Translated messaging re: COVID-19 testing & treatment for overseas visitors
Messaging around NHS entitlements in relation to COVID-19 for overseas visitors, including anyone living in the UK without permission, has been translated into 40 languages. There is also translated advice and guidance on social distancing and shielding.
BSL Videos
Coronavirus - Spot the signs
How To Use The NHS
Coronavirus - Essential Advice
Home Isolation Advice
Face Touching
Sandwell Deaf Community Association (SDCA)
SDCA offers a remote sign language interpreting service, without any face to face contact.
Tel: 0121 553 0201 (Mon – Fri day time)
Tel: 07885 913 225 (7 days 24 hours for all services)
To book a BSL Interpreter email SDCA or call the number above.
Sandwell Visually Impaired (SVI) and Sandwell Talking News
Blind and partially sighted listeners can still receive their regular copy of Sandwell Talking News (STN) by post, phone and online as volunteers rise to meet the challenges created by coronavirus.
This important service is a vital tool in the efforts to overcome isolation, bringing news and local information to this vulnerable community.
Volunteer readers are sent articles electronically and record them on their phones or tablets. These are edited and put together into each weekly edition by Sandwell Visually Impaired's home-based compiler, then uploaded to a file sharing app prior to internet and postal delivery.
The STN team are also working with other local talking newspapers in Birmingham and the Black Country to share articles and good news stories.
To find out how to listen to the STN, visit Sandwell Visually Impaired's website and follow the links to Sandwell Talking News. Thanks to the Express & Star for their kind permission to use articles taken from their publications.