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Emergency Planning
17.11.08
Children and Young People’s Services
Timetable
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2:20
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3:20
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4:00
Introduction
Critical vs Major Incidents
Flu Pandemic
Local Authority Plans and
Responsibilities
Break
School Plans and Responsibilities
What would you do?
Next steps
End
Deborah Brownlee
Simon Jenner
Paul Turner
Tim Carroll
Simon Jenner
Simon Jenner
Aims
• To raise awareness of the expectations / duties
for schools in relation to emergency planning
• To disseminate central government guidance
• To be aware of local authority requirements
in regard to emergency planning and support
available to schools
• To help schools revise/write their emergency plan
• To be aware of actions required should a flu
pandemic arise
Major Incident
• "An event or situation which threatens serious damage to:
human welfare in a place in the UK, the environment of a
place in the UK, or, the security of the UK or a place in the
UK".
• A major incident is characterised by the nature and scale of
the response required, rather than the circumstances
surrounding the incident itself. Characteristically it will mean
the following:• An external event caused by circumstances outside of the
Council's control;
• The implementation of special arrangements by one or more of
the emergency services, the NHS or local authority;
Major Incident cont…
• The involvement either directly or indirectly of
large numbers of people;
• The handling of large numbers of enquiries likely
to be generated from the public and media;
• The need for large scale combined resources of
two or more of the emergency services or
supporting organisations;
• The provision of a response to an event which
threatens death, serious injury, displacement, or
homelessness to a large number of people.
Critical Incident
• A critical incident is one which is below the level
of a major one but still of significance. Examples
would include the death of a pupil, or significant
fire within a school. Yule and Gold (1993) define
a critical incident as "a sudden and unforeseen
incident which has a significant and negative
impact upon the emotional well-being of pupils
and/or adults of a school and/or upon the
effective funding of a school." Within Wigan we
would wish to widen this definition to include all
educational settings.
DCSF website on emergency plans
www.learndirect.gov.uk/emergencies
Writing a plan
www.teachernet.gov.uk/emergencies/resources/index.html
Arson risk evaluation
www.teachernet.gov.uk/emergencies/resources/arson/index.htm
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Security Risk Assessment
www.teachernet.gov.uk/emergencies/resources/security/index.html
Wigan Critical Incident Web Site
www.wiganschoolsonline.net/smi/crit_inc.s
htm
Flu Pandemic Guidance for Schools
www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/healt
handsafety/Influenza/
Local Authority
Emergency Plan
• Plan to address major incidents
• Allocates responsibilities for actions
• Held/actioned by key officers of the
authority
• Public document available
Emergency Plan - Content
• Initial contact procedure
• Emergency control centre details
• Outline of departmental functions and
responsibilities
• Media and information handling
• Information on other agencies
• Resource directory
• Principles for training and exercising
LA Responsibilities
• Have emergency plans in place
• Have business continuity plans in place
• Support key services (eg schools) in
planning for emergencies and critical
incidents
• Provide specialist support as required (eg
premises-related support, psychological
support
Rest Centres
• Provide shelter and basic welfare to
people who have been evacuated, or
made homeless because of a major
incident or disaster.
• They are set up and manned by the Local
Authority.
• The local authority rest centre plan has
recently been updated.
Rest Centres - continued
• Premises are chosen based upon the size
and circumstances of the emergency, but day
centres, high schools or sports centres are
generally used.
• Schools have been identified in different
areas of the borough as possible rest centre
locations.
• Awareness raising, including rest centre
exercises are planned with schools.
Case Scenarios
1. A flu pandemic has arisen, but with few
casualties. Central government and the local
authority are asking schools to remain open,
as far as possible, to enable other services to
continue.
A quarter of your staff call in sick/ to look after
relatives/ are unwilling to come into work. What
do you do:-
Immediately
Within the day
Within the week (if the situation continues)
Case Scenarios
2. A flu pandemic in February has led to
significant casualties.
Advice is to close schools (possibly for ten
weeks), but to keep the curriculum going,
especially for Y6/Y11, via alternative
means such as IT.
What would you do?
Case Scenarios
3. At lunch time a man with a machete climbs over
the fence and threatens staff/children. You see
this as it happens.
What do you do:- Immediately
- In an hour
- In the day
- In a week
- Longer term