Vulnerable Groups

Recommendations related to vulnerable groups

6
Recommendations
83% accepted
Government Response
Accepted (4)Accepted in Part (1)Under Review (1)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 1 inquiry

Across 1 inquiry
COVID-19 Inquiry
Tagged Recommendations
6 total
COVID-M1.10 Under Consideration
COVID-19 Inquiry
Independent Statutory Resilience Body
The UK government should, in consultation with the devolved administrations, create a statutory independent body for whole-system civil emergency preparedness and resilience. The new body should be given responsibility for: …
- The government rejected the creation of a new statutory independent body as recommended, instead proposing an alternative approach through strengthened existing advisory mechanisms (UK …
Cabinet Office
COVID-M1.3 Accepted
COVID-19 Inquiry
Improved Risk Assessment Approach
The UK government and devolved administrations should work together on developing a new approach to risk assessment that moves away from a reliance on single reasonable worst-case scenarios towards an …
- The government accepted this recommendation in its response published 16 January 2025, agreeing with the need to improve risk assessment beyond single reasonable worst-case …
Cabinet Office
COVID-M1.5 Accepted
COVID-19 Inquiry
Pandemic Data Systems and Research
The UK government, working with the devolved administrations, should establish mechanisms for the timely collection, analysis, secure sharing and use of reliable data for informing emergency responses, in advance of …
- The government accepted this recommendation in its response published 16 January 2025, agreeing that data and research are crucial to pandemic preparedness (UK Government …
Cabinet Office
COVID-M1.6 Accepted
COVID-19 Inquiry
Triennial Pandemic Exercises
The UK government and devolved administrations should together hold a UK-wide pandemic response exercise at least every three years. The exercise should: test the UK-wide, cross-government, national and local response …
- The government accepted this recommendation in its response published 16 January 2025, programming a Tier 1 ministerial-level pandemic exercise for 2025 (UK Government Response …
Cabinet Office
COVID-M1.8 Accepted in Part
COVID-19 Inquiry
Triennial Parliamentary Resilience Reports
The governments of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each produce and publish reports to their respective legislatures at least every three years on whole-system civil emergency preparedness …
- The government accepted this recommendation in its response published 16 January 2025, committing to annual statements to Parliament on civil contingency risk (UK Government …
Cabinet Office
COVID-M2.8 Accepted
COVID-19 Inquiry
Vulnerable People Framework
The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should each agree a framework that identifies people who would be most at risk of becoming infected by and …
- The UK government stated in its Module 2 response (25 March 2026) that it agrees with the importance of identifying and protecting those most …
Cabinet Office