Greater Manchester Resilience Forum

Approach to multi agency planning and response&

Strategic Priorities 2010/11

Mike Reardon

2000/2001: Drivers for the Civil Contingencies Act and a Joined-Up

Approach to Civil Contingencies

Foot & Mouth Disease –February to May 2001 Major Floods – October to November 2000

Fuel Protests – September 2000

A Changing World“Old World” – Cold War Civil Protection Approach

“New World” – Resilience-based Approach

Monolithic threat Complex risks: hazards and threats

Top down Management by central Government

Bottom-up: local response is the foundation

Closed circle: mainly public sector Inclusiveness: multi-agency

Secrecy Transparency and openness

The Civil Contingencies Act (2004): Civil Protection Duties

• Assess the risk of emergencies occurring and use this to inform contingency planning;

• Put in place emergency plans;

• Put in place Business Continuity Management arrangements;

• Put in place arrangements to make information available to the public about civil protection matters and maintain arrangements to warn, inform and advise the public in the event of an emergency;

• Share information with other local responders to enhance co-ordination;

• Co-operate with other local responders to enhance co-ordination and efficiency;

• Provide advice and assistance to businesses and voluntary organisations about business continuity management (Local Authorities only).

Greater Manchester Resilience Forum

‘The Greater Manchester Resilience Forum sits at the apex of Greater Manchester’s civil protection arrangements. Its overall

purpose is to ensure that there is an appropriate level of preparedness to

enable an effective multi-agency response to emergency incidents which may have a significant impact on the communities of

Greater Manchester.’

Greater ManchesterResilience Forum

Greater ManchesterResilience Development

Group

Control Centre ManagersGroup

Voluntary Agencies Sub - Group

Health IssuesSub - Group

Airport Emergency Planning Group

Warning & InformingGroup

Training & Exercising Coordinating Group

Flooding & Extreme Weather Sub - Group

Project Cyclamen Sub-Group

Telecommu nications Sub - Group

10 x BoroughResilienceGroups

COMAH Working Group

Risk Assessment Working Group

CBRN Sub- Group

Mass Fatalities Sub - Group

Humanitarian Assistance Sub - Group

Protect Assessment Group

CBRN Site Specific Planning Group

Excess Death Planning Group

Swine Flu: Managing the implications of the Pandemic

Coordinated Greater Manchester Response led by a GM Strategic Coordination Group (SCG)

The Severe Weather of January 2010: Managing the implications of the longest spell of freezing weather for 29 years

A joined up approach: GM working together and speaking with one voice

The National Framework

National Security Strategy• highlights the nature of new security challenges and how

the challenges have changed • an increasingly interdependent world• brings vulnerabilities

– travel, modern communications, the internet and increased trade can present opportunities for terrorism and transnational crime or increase the risk of pandemics

• as well as recognising that the challenges are increasingly global and demand global solutions, the roots of problems are often local, as are the effects

• recognises a range of threats to security including climate change

The National Risk RegisterThe National Risk Register is designed to

increase awareness of the kinds of risks the UK faces, and encourage individuals and

organisations to think about their own preparedness. The register also includes

details of what the Government and emergency services are doing to prepare for

emergencies.

National Risks

GM Community Risk Register

Influenza type disease (pandemic)

Major / local fluvial flooding

Major pollution of controlled waters

(e.g. reservoir)

Local accident on motorway or major trunk road

Legionella / meningitis outbreak

Toxic chemical release

Technical failure of electricity network

Explosion at natural gas pipelines

Aviation accident

Aviation accident over major conurbation

Fire or explosion at onshore ethylene gas pipeline

National Priorities• Capability

• Consistency Catastrophes

• CNI Resilience

• Community Resilience

• Corporate Resilience

National Drivers• The National Resilience Capabilities Programme• National Capabilities Survey• Inquiries and Lessons Learnt• Civil Contingencies Act Enhancement

Programme• Community Resilience• Severe Weather• Reservoir Inundation• Contest• Olympics 2012

Sub-Regional Drivers

• City Region Status and the Public Protection Commission

• The Community Risk Register

• GMRF Partnership Risk Assessment

• Incidents and Exercises

GMRF Priorities 2010/11• Understanding the implications and

opportunities of City Region Status and the Public Protection Commission

• Strengthening training and exercising• Strengthening warning and informing• Reservoir Inundation• Understanding GMRF’s role in CONTEST• Understanding the requirements to support

planning for the 2012 Olympics• Moving forward and building on our successes

“there is evidence that the worst time to there is evidence that the worst time to learn how to manage a crisis is during a learn how to manage a crisis is during a crisis itselfcrisis itself”

Financial Times 31 July 1993