16th July 2013Quenington Village Hall

Cotswold Conversation

Community Resilience Workshop

Cotswold Conversation

Community Resilience Workshop

Emergencies

• Thankfully major emergencies are infrequent

• However emergencies that impact on communities do happen

• Local Authorities plan and prepare for these

• Communities and individuals also have an important role in being prepared and resilient

Types of Emergency

• Natural e.g. flooding, snow, heat wave

• ‘Man-made’ e.g. industrial accidents, fires

• Sudden impact e.g. gas explosion, train crash

• ‘Rising Tide’ e.g. Pandemic flu, animal disease

What emergencies have occurred in /

impacted on Gloucestershire/

Cotswolds in recent years?

What emergencies have occurred in /

impacted on Gloucestershire/

Cotswolds in recent years?

Cotswold/ Glos Emergencies • Paddington rail crash – 1999

• Foot and Mouth disease – 2001

• Flooding- 2000, 2007, 2012/13

• Chipping Campden school bus crash – 2003

• Adoversford chemical leak – 2006

• Lechlade -traffic collision & gas leak- 2009

• Cockleford – longshell bomb found -2010

• Ampney St. Mary fire – 2013

• Long Marston fire - 2013

Civil Contingencies Act 2004

• Legal framework for emergency management at a local level

• Category 1 (‘core organisations’) & Category 2 (‘cooperating bodies’) Responders

• Local Authorities are Category 1 Responder

• Various statutory duties under Act including: planning, training, business continuity

Local Resilience Forum (LRF)

Local Resilience Forum (LRF)

Emergency Services

Health Services

EA andOther agencies

Local Authorities

LRF Groups

• Risk & Planning• Training• Community Resilience• Humanitarian Assistance• Infrastructure• Media • Health • Search & Rescue• Local Authority liaison

LRF Emergency Plans• Major Incident Procedures Manual

• Multi-Agency Flood Plan

• Rest Centre Guide

• Pipeline Plans

• Animal Diseases Plan

• Pandemic Flu Plan

• Emergency Mortuary Plan

• Search and Rescue Plan

Multi-Agency Response Structure

Multi-Agency ‘Gold’

Multi-Agency ‘Gold’

Strategic Level ‘Decision Makers’

Strategic Level ‘Decision Makers’

Multi-Agency ‘Silver’

Multi-Agency ‘Silver’

Tactical Level ‘Thinkers’

Tactical Level ‘Thinkers’

Bronze at sceneBronze at scene

Operational Level ‘Doers’

Operational Level ‘Doers’

Community Resilience

Community Resilience

Initial support & ‘eyes & ears’ local

level

Initial support & ‘eyes & ears’ local

level

Local Authority Role in Emergencies

• Support the Emergency Services

• Care for those affected

• Provide Rest Centre facilities if necessary

• Support to vulnerable people

• Provide resources and equipment

• Coordinate voluntary and faith sector

• Long term recovery

• Maintain critical Local Authority services

WorksTeam

WelfareTeam

Schools Team

Co-ordinationTeam

lHelpline Teams

Accredited VolunteersAccredited Volunteers

Clergy Clergy St JohnSt John

RVSRVS Red CrossRed CrossRotary Rotary

Other Local Other Local Voluntary Voluntary GroupsGroups

HelplineTeam

Offers of Help Team

GCC Emergency Response Structure

CDC’s Emergency Response Teams

• Rest Centre Team

• Coordination Team

• Works Team

In addition there is a duty emergency pager officer on call 24/7

The Role of Communities in emergencies

• To act as coordinator as the emergency unfolds

• Communicate with emergency services and local authorities

• To support the public inc vulnerable people – e.g. provide a place of safety

• Look ahead to what might happen and plan for a response e.g. flood wardens and snow wardens

• Provide information and assist with recovery

How does this work in practice

Emergency

Pager

Community

PoS Coordination Team

Works Team

Rest Centre Team

Glos LRF

If you already have a Community Emergency

Plan what difficulties did you face

developing it and how did you overcome

them?

If you already have a Community Emergency

Plan what difficulties did you face

developing it and how did you overcome

them?

Plan Testing and Review

• Once plan produced important to test it

• Discussion scenario

• Practical test

• Review -ideally contact details 6 monthly

• Community awareness of Plan

Thank you

Any questions?