Mark WilliamsAssistant Director

(Emergency & Contingency Planning)

Planning for Major Emergencies

Planning for Major Emergencies

Presentation Content:

• CCA 2004 Planning Requirements.• LRF Current Planning Arrangements• LRF New Planning Requirements• LRF Planning Example – Pandemic Flu• Summary

Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements

Category 1 Responders must:

• Maintain plans for preventing an emergency.• Maintain plans for reducing, controlling or

mitigating the effects of an emergency.• Maintain plans for taking other action in

connection with the emergency.

Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements

Plans must :

• Include procedure for determining whether an emergency has occurred.

• Make provision for:

training of key staff

exercising the plan

reviewing the plan • Have regard to risk assessments.

Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements

Types of Plan:

• Generic• Site Specific

Multi Agency Plans permitted and should involve:

• Category 2 Responders• Organisations not subject to CCA e.g. Military• Have regard to voluntary organisations

Validate in exercises – and in response

Train Key Staff

Issue and disseminateMaintain, review and Consider revision

Agree and FinaliseTake direction fromRisk Assessment

Set ObjectivesDetermine actions and responsibilities

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CONSULT

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The Cycle of Emergency Planning

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Gloucestershire Local Resilience Form (LRF)

Contingency Planning Arrangements

Command Structure

• Civil Contingencies Secretariat – Cabinet Office

• Regional Resilience Team (RRT) – Bristol

• Local Resilience Forum (LRF) – Gloucestershire

• LRF Planning Sub-Group

LRF Planning Sub-Group

Established January 2001

Multi-Agency Plans completed:

• Major Incident Procedures Manual (MIP)• CBRN• Media• Search and Rescue• COMAH/REPPIR

LRF Planning Sub-Group

New Planning Requirements:

• Risk Assessment• Fuel• Central Government Capabilities Programme

The Capabilities Programme

• CBRN• Mass Casualties• Mass Fatalities• Mass Evacuation• Site Clearance• Warning and Informing the Public• Flooding (recent addition)• Infectious Diseases – Animal/Plant • Infectious Diseases – Human (Pandemic Flu)

Avian Flu

Pandemic Flu

Avian Flu

Avian Flu

Avian Flu

Pandemic Flu

Pandemic Flu

Human Flu

Pandemic Flu

Pandemic Flu

• 1918 – ‘Spanish Flu’, UK Deaths: 250,000

• 1957 – ‘Asian Flu’, UK Deaths: 33,000

• 1968 – ‘Hong Kong’, Deaths in England & Wales: 30,000

LRF Response

• Identify an LRF Pandemic Flu Lead

• Establishing an LRF Pandemic Flu Focus Group from the LRF Health Group

• Identify Co-ordinators from each Agency

LRF

LRF PANDEMIC FLUFOCUS GROUP

(Chair – Countywide Pandemic Flu Co-ordinator, DPH C&T PCT)

LRF HEALTH GROUP

EDUCATION

FLU CONTINGENCY

PLANNING

FLU CO-ORDINATING

GROUP

FLU CO-ORDINATING

GROUP

FLU CO-ORDINATING

GROUP

SOCIAL SERVICES OPs & SUPPORT

SERVICESCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS

NURSING STAFF

COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS GP’s

HPA/CCDC

3 PCTCO-ORDINATORS

AMBULANCE TRUST

POLICE PARTNERSHIP TRUST

LOCAL AUTHORITY

(EMS)

HOSPITALS FOUNDATION

TRUST

3 PCT CO-ORDINATING

COMMITTEES

Business Continuity

• Reduction of over 30/35% Staff

• Disruption to the supply chain

• Loss of services

Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements

SUMMARY

• CCA/Capabilities Programme/Risk Assessment will generate large multi-agency planning workload.

• Gloucestershire LRF well placed to meet these new challenges.

Integration