The following list is the current guidance around key workers.
- Health and social care - doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributors of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.
- Education and childcare - childcare, support and teaching staff, social workers, specialist education professionals who must remain active during the coronavirus (COVID-19) response to deliver this approach
- Key public services - staff in the justice system, religious staff, charities and worker delivering key frontline services, responsible for management of the deceased, or a journalist or broadcaster providing public service broadcasting
- Local and national government - staff responsible for delivering essential public services (e.g. delivering benefits)
- Food production and delivery - staff involved in production, processing, delivery and sale of food and other key goods (e.g. hygienic and veterinary medicines)
- National security - police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilian, contractor, and armed forces personnel, fire rescue service employees (and support staff), National Crime Agency staff, border security staff, prison and probation staff
- Transport - staff working to keep air, water, road, and rail transport running during the crisis (both freight and passenger)
- Financial services - essential staff in financial services (including banks, building societies, and financial market infrastructure)
- Communication - staff working network operations, field engineering, call centres, IT and data infrastructure, or 999 and 111
- Utilities - staff in the oil, gas, electricity, and water sectors (including sewerage worker), civil nuclear and chemicals, waste disposal, postal service, or payment providers