Face coverings in Council buildings
Overview
If you are visiting a Council building, we would encourage you to continue to wear a face covering.
Council buildings
We would encourage you to wear a face covering when entering:
- Customer service centres
- Offices
- Libraries
- Leisure centres (can be removed when exercising)
- Children's centres
- Cemeteries and crematorium buildings
- Business centres
This includes:
- South Shields Town Hall
- Jarrow Town Hall
- Hawthorne Council offices
- Middlefields Council offices
- MarketPlace Council offices
- Barrington Street Council offices
- South Tyneside Alliance offices
- Register Office
- Living Better Lives Resource Centre
- Hebburn Central
- Jarrow Focus
- Haven Point
- Monkton Stadium
- Jarrow Community Pool
- Temple Park Centre
- Mid Tyne Activity Centre, Jarrow
- Gypsies Green
- Water Activities Centre
- Simonside Youth Centre
- The Word
- Hebburn Central Library
- Jarrow Focus Library
- Cleadon Park library
- Boldon Children's Centre
- Hebburn Early Excellence Centre
- Bede Children's Centre
- Jarrow Children's Centre
- Primrose Children's Centre
- All Saints Children's Centre
- Biddick Hall and Whiteleas Children's Centre
- Horsley Hill Children's Centre
- Marine Park Children's Centre
- Ridgeway Children's Centre
- Riverside Children's Centre
- Laygate Family Centre
- Whiteleas Way Children's Home
- Henderson Road Children's Home
- Boldon Village Hall Community Association
- South Shields Crematorium
- Jarrow Cemetery
- Harton Cemetery
- Boldon Cemetery
- Hebburn Cemetery
- Westoe Cemetery
- Whitburn Cemetery
- One Trinity Green Business Centre
- Quadrus Business Centre
- Jarrow Business Centre
- South Shields Business Centre
Staff working in Council buildings
Staff working in Council buildings are exempt from wearing a face covering, as workplace health and safety assessments have been carried out and they are working in COVID-secure environments.