National emergency preparedness communication

The UK lagging behind other nations in national public communication campaigns and strategies for emergency preparedness.

49 items 1 source 5 inquiries
Strongest theme matches

Mixed across source types and ranked by classifier confidence plus text match strength.

Indicative ranking
Inquiry recommendation
87match
FENN-152 - Consider national disaster planning desk for experience and emergency coordination
Fennell Inquiry
Consideration should be given to a national disaster planning desk where the experience gained from disasters and their investigation and civil emergencies can be retained. Advice on the coordination of individual emergency plans should also be available at a national level.
Matched on terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
87match
MAI-141 - Nationally agreed format for all emergency plans
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unity, individual police services and JESIP should develop a nationally agreed format for all plans, placing JESIP at their centre.
Matched on terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
78match
COVID-M2.14 - Accessible Emergency Communications
COVID-19 Inquiry
The UK government and the devolved administrations should each develop action plans for how government communications will be made more accessible during a pandemic. As a minimum, these should include making provision for the translation of government press conferences into British Sign Language (and Irish Sign Language in Northern Ireland) and the translation of key announcements into the...
Matched on terms: communication, emergency
Inquiry recommendation
78match
MAI-135 - Action cards for emergency services in Major Incidents
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should oversee the development and implementation of action cards for the police, fire and rescue service, and ambulance service for use in a Major Incident.
Matched on terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
74match
MAI-122 - Maintain radio communications during Major Incidents
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The emergency services should prepare, train and exercise for how they will maintain effective radio communications between emergency responders on the ground, commanders and control rooms, during the response to a Major Incident.
Matched on terms: communication, emergency
Inquiry recommendation
73match
COVID-M5.11 - Data and Technology in Emergency Procurement
COVID-19 Inquiry
Within three years of the publication of this Report, the systems for the procurement and distribution of healthcare equipment should be digitalised and interoperable across the UK government and devolved administrations. As a minimum, these systems should be able to use technology to collect, share and analyse data across the UK in real time on: pandemic stockpiles, health...
Matched on terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-145 - Strategic Co-ordinating Group within two hours
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office should consider the introduction of a national standard requiring a meeting of the Strategic Co-ordinating Group to take place no more than two hours after the declaration of a Major Incident where more than one emergency service is engaged in the response to that incident.
Matched on terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-138 - Common terminology for non-Plato hazardous zones
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and JESIP should ensure that all emergency services use common terminology to describe the zoning of hazardous areas in non-Operation Plato Major Incident situations and that all services have a common understanding...
Matched on terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-137 - Common terminology for Operation Plato zones
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and JESIP should ensure that all emergency services use common terminology to describe the Operation Plato hot, warm and cold zones and all have a common understanding of those terms.
Matched on terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-136 - Awareness of specialist capabilities across services
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and all local resilience forums should take steps to ensure, whether through multi-agency training and exercising or otherwise, that the members of each emergency service are aware of the specialist capabilities of...
Matched on terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-120 - Consider air ambulance integration into response
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, ambulance service trusts, Air Ambulances UK, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and JESIP should consider whether air ambulances should be integrated into the emergency response to Major Incidents, including terrorist attacks, and, if so, how that is to be achieved.
Matched on terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-119 - Integrate air ambulances into Major Incident response
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, ambulance service trusts, Air Ambulances UK, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and JESIP should consider what staff training and resources would be required to integrate air ambulance organisations into the emergency response to Major Incidents, including terrorist attacks.
Matched on terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
66match
MAI-128 - National systems to record lessons from exercises
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government should ensure that there exist robust national and local systems to identify and record the lessons learned from all multi-agency exercises and ensure that change is implemented as a result, where change is indicated.
Matched on terms: national
Inquiry recommendation
66match
MAI-11 - Continue first aid and CPR in National Curriculum
Manchester Arena Inquiry
As of September 2020, all primary and secondary school pupils were required to be taught health education, including first aid, as part of the National Curriculum. This involves children aged over 12 being taught CPR. This is necessary. The Department for Education should ensure that it continues.
Matched on terms: national
Inquiry recommendation
62match
MAI-42 - SMG sharing of emergency response plans
Manchester Arena Inquiry
SMG should review its processes to ensure that it shares with Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, British Transport Police and North West Ambulance Service its most current emergency response plans and policies for dealing with an incident at the Arena. It should apply this approach more generally to its operations.
Matched on terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
62match
MAI-28 - Senior emergency service representation at LRFs
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Each emergency service should ensure that it is represented at a senior level at every meeting of a local resilience forum.
Matched on terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
61match
COVID-M2.17 - Public Emergency Information Portal
COVID-19 Inquiry
The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should develop an online portal for use in future civil emergencies, where members of the public can access information on the legal restrictions that apply in their area and any associated guidance.
Matched on terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
57match
MAI-167 - Clarify Casualty Collection Point terminology
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The terms Casualty Collection Point and Casualty Clearing Station are capable of being confused, one for the other, particularly in circumstances of stress. That happened on the night of the Attack. The National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider whether different and more distinct terms should be used for these two locations.
Matched on terms: national
Inquiry recommendation
57match
MAI-151 - App for commander contact details
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider together whether an app giving ready access to the contact details for all on-duty and on-call commanders is feasible and, if so, likely to be of benefit in the response to a Major Incident.
Matched on terms: national
Inquiry recommendation
57match
MAI-140 - Review Major Incident plans for interoperability
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, individual police services and JESIP should review what changes need to be made to the Major Incident plans and Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters Operation Plato guidance in order to achieve the aims...
Matched on terms: national
Inquiry recommendation
57match
MAI-139 - Review and update JESIP Joint Doctrine
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and JESIP should review and, as necessary, update the Joint Doctrine.
Matched on terms: national
Inquiry recommendation
57match
MAI-127 - Robust debrief systems for multi-agency exercises
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities should ensure that there exist robust national and local systems and sufficient resources to make sure that the debrief process following multi-agency exercises is effective to capture the lessons that need to be learned.
Matched on terms: national
Inquiry recommendation
53match
MAI-123 - GM Resilience Forum tri-service plan reviews
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Greater Manchester Resilience Forum should oversee, at least every six months, a regular tri-service review of the Major Incident plans used by Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and North West Ambulance Service. The purpose of that review should be to ensure that there is a common understanding by each emergency service of the...
Matched on terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
53match
MAI-21 - Firearms officer training on Operation Plato
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and the College of Policing should ensure that all firearms officers, including firearms commanders, receive adequate training in Operation Plato, including in what such a declaration means and the demands it will place upon them. This should include instruction in the importance of zoning, communicating zoning decisions to other emergency services and joint working...
Matched on terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
52match
COVID-M5.3 - Emergency Procurement and Distribution Systems
COVID-19 Inquiry
The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive, within 12 months of the publication of this Report, should each have ready systems for the emergency procurement and distribution of healthcare equipment. These new systems must: integrate procurement and distribution; have the ability rapidly to scale up efficient operations, including through integrated emergency procurement teams and...
Matched on terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
48match
P2-56 - Clarify casualty bureau purpose and limitations
Grenfell Tower Inquiry
That what in the past has been called by the police a 'casualty bureau' be described in a way that makes it clear that it does not provide information to the public about people affected by the emergency. (113.78)
Matched on terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
45match
MAI-146 - Public education on first responder interventions
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office should consider the introduction of a public education programme to educate the public in first responder interventions.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
45match
MAI-130 - Public Access Trauma kit availability
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care should consider how to ensure Public Access Trauma kits are available in all locations where they are most likely to be needed.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
45match
MAI-16 - BTP coordination with Home Office police services
Manchester Arena Inquiry
British Transport Police should work with the Home Office police services with which it shares policing responsibilities at or for a particular location: a. to agree which police service has primacy in the event of a Major Incident; b. to put in place appropriate plans to make clear the responsibilities of each police service in the event of...
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
44match
ICL-6 - LPG Safety Communications
ICL Inquiry
There should be prompt and effective communication between all interested parties of all technical developments in matters of LPG safety.
Matched on terms: communication
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-169 - Review Operation Plato guidance
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Those organisations should consider what changes need to be made to the Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters Operation Plato guidance in order to achieve those aims.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-168 - Review Major Incident plans for joint working
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Those organisations should consider what changes need to be made to Major Incident plans in order to achieve those aims.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-150 - Police notice of significant pre-planned events
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, the College of Policing and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services should develop a system for ensuring that the duty command structure in each police service has notice of any significant pre-planned event, such as a major concert or sports match, taking place within the police service area.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-142 - Compel LRF attendance from Category 1 and 2 responders
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office should consider empowering the leadership of local resilience forums to compel the attendance of a senior representative of its Category 1 and Category 2 responders at all local resilience forum meetings. Inspections by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services should include an analysis of a service's engagement with its local resilience...
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-134 - Fire service notice of significant pre-planned events
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, and the Fire Service College should develop a system for ensuring that the duty command structure in each fire and rescue service has notice of any significant pre-planned event, such as a major concert or sports match, taking place within the fire and rescue service...
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-129 - Threshold for Ambulance Liaison Officer at events
Manchester Arena Inquiry
The Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care should consider how the threshold for a requirement that an Ambulance Liaison Officer be present at an event is to be identified.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-64 - Create centralised NaCTSO training library
Manchester Arena Inquiry
NaCTSO should create a centralised library of training materials.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-41 - Include NWAS capabilities in GMP Major Incident Plan
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Greater Manchester Police's Major Incident Plan should be reviewed to ensure that it includes clear guidance on the capabilities of North West Ambulance Service, including its Hazardous Area Response Team, Ambulance Intervention Team and Special Operations Response Team, as well as on the importance of joint working
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-40 - Include GMFRS capabilities in GMP Major Incident Plan
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Greater Manchester Police's Major Incident Plan should be reviewed to ensure that it includes clear guidance on the capabilities of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, including its Specialist Response Team, as well as on the importance of joint working.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-39 - Single consolidated GMP Operation Plato plan
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Greater Manchester Police should review its Operation Plato plans to ensure that there is only a single plan to which all can work and that this plan gives clear and consistent guidance on how to respond to an Operation Plato incident.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-37 - Ensure GMP role cards are accessible
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Greater Manchester Police should ensure that its role cards are always immediately accessible to the officers who are to perform those roles
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-36 - Regular expert review of GMP Major Incident plans
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Greater Manchester Police should ensure that its plans for responding to a Major Incident, including a terrorist incident, are reviewed regularly by those with the appropriate skills and experience to make meaningful improvements to each plan. This must include a regular review of the Operation Plato plan, which must include obtaining the views of those with experience of...
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-34 - Review GMFRS information sharing during incidents
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service should review its guidance and policies on how it receives and passes on information during a Major Incident. It is important that, for any update given, it is established when the last time the person receiving the update was provided with information, to ensure that they are completely up to date.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-27 - Review terrorist attack notification procedures
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review the procedures by which it is notified of a terrorist attack to ensure that all police services know that this is an early priority.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-24 - Review combined vs separate Gold/Silver Control Rooms
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and the College of Policing should review the advantages and disadvantages of a combined Silver and Gold Control Room as opposed to separate rooms, and issue guidance for all police services on best practice.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-22 - Unarmed officer training on Operation Plato
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and the College of Policing should ensure that all unarmed frontline police officers receive training in what Operation Plato is and what will be expected of them following such a declaration. The training should include the importance of zoning, the identification of who can ordinarily work in different zones and the importance of joint...
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-4 - Appoint control room intelligence collators (Fire)
Manchester Arena Inquiry
All fire and rescue services should consider appointing a person within their control rooms who, in the event of a Major Incident, has the sole role of gathering and collating all available information and intelligence, and sharing it internally and externally to the extent appropriate.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-3 - Cross-border ambulance training and exercising
Manchester Arena Inquiry
All ambulance service trusts should undertake training and exercising with neighbouring ambulance service trusts to ensure that cross-border support is efficient and effective.
Matched on classifier match
Inquiry recommendation
41match
MAI-2 - Appoint control room intelligence collators (Ambulance)
Manchester Arena Inquiry
All ambulance service trusts should consider appointing a person within their control rooms who, in the event of a Major Incident, has the sole role of gathering and collating all available information and intelligence, and sharing it internally and externally to the extent appropriate.
Matched on classifier match