1. Resilience for The Faith Sector
Emergency Planning and Response
Luke Miller | DoL | November 2014

2. Resilience for Archdeacons

3. Resilience for the Faith Sector
Major Incidents and Emergencies
Structures
Flat Resilience
The Role of Faith Responders in an Emergency
What to be doing now

4. Major Incidents and Emergencies
Might be as local as a gas explosion
Bravanese Centre Friern Barnet 2013
Local events can have regional resonance
2011 Riots
At a point in time
7/7
From Elsewhere
Ebola
Continuing Impact
Excess Deaths in a Pandemic

5. Major Incidents and Emergencies
The course of an Emergency

6. Declaration of a major incident in London
Definition:
A major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or more of the emergency services and will generally include the involvement, either directly or indirectly, of large numbers of people.
Response:
Conversation – raising agency, police, LRT
Decision to activate Strategic Coordination Group (management of the London response)
Invitation to required representatives (Primary Faith rep is Faith Sector Panel Chair)
London Strategic Coordination Group (SCG):
Where strategic multi-agency direction is required to deal with an incident or disruptive event
Group is responsible for determining the strategic aim, objectives and priorities for London.

7. What should we expect to do?

8. Major Incidents and Emergencies
Faith Response curve

9. A Rising Tide Incident

10. Structures: Geographic
National – Regional – Sub Regional – Local
GB – London – Groups of Boroughs - Borough
K&C
Westminster
City
Tower H
Southwark
Lambeth
Lewisham
Greenwich
Bexley
Bromley
Croydon
Camden
Islington
Hackney
Barnet
Enfield
Haringey
H&F
Brent
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Ealing
Harrow
Waltham F
Barking & D
Havering
Newham
Redbridge
Wandsworth
Richmond
Kingston
Merton
Sutton

11. Sub-regional Resilience Borough Resilience Forums
Transport
Sector Panel
Business
Sector Panel
Voluntary
Sector Panel
Communications
Sector Panel
Local Authorities
Panel
Utilities
Sector Panel
London Resilience
Forum
Health
Sector Panel
Emergency
Services
Govt:
DCLG Military
Environment
Agency
FAITH
Sector Panel
Sub-regional Resilience
London Resilience
Programme Board
Planning body. At a strategic level, a body called the LRF oversees the work of the partnership – this is currently chaired by Gareth Bacon, nominated by Mayor of London, and membership is at a senior level from key organisations.
A number of sector panels feed into the forum to represent the views of diff groups of organisations
The LRPB sites underneath the LLRF and implements the policies of the LLRF, tasking actions out to group. A number of working groups feed into the LRPB which focus on specific areas e.g. mass fatalities, mass evacuation. Risk Advisory group also feeds in.
Because London is so big, planning and information sharing also takes place at a sub-regional and borough level
London Emergency Services Liaison Panel – specific group that deals with response of emergency services and other agencies at scene of a major incident. This document sets out the initial response to an incident in the Capital
London
Risk Advisory Group
Working Groups
Borough Resilience Forums

12. Structures: Administrative
Dioceses, Churches etc
Faith Leaders
Faith Sector Panel
London Church Leaders
Faith Forum for London
Churches Gold Group
Borough Faith Fora
Faith Leaders
Archdeacons

13. Structures Archdeacon ? Sub Regional Leader Borough Deans
Partners: Chaplains; EPOs; Blue Light; neighbours
Contacts and Local Responders
Local Faith Centre

14. Structures

15. Flat Resilience

16. Flat Resilience
Every Place Ready

17. Flat Resilience Resilience Kit Basic First Aid Nappies Paper towels
Torch (batteries)
Kettle, sugar, tea and coffee
Paper, scissors, blu-tak, marker pen
Hi Viz jacket
Chargers?

18. The Role of Borough-level Leaders on the Day
Answer the phone
Call others
Co-ordinate local support
Advocate the Plan
Keep information flowing
Think about relief & ask for help

19. What to do now Know your Patch & its people Borough EPO
Borough Resilience Forum – who goes?
Local responder training offered
Exercises if there are any
Police & Fire – you or the parish or both?
Hospital & Health – is there contact?
London Resilience Forum rep – faith sector panel
Sub-Regional Resilience Forums – quarterly meetings – morning workshop on a particular theme – last marauding terrorist attack, next is post-Exercise Unified Response review (spring – March time). Faith leaders welcome – sign up through BRF.

20. What to do now Know your Patch & its people
Local Schools & Businesses. Which faith buildings are or could be rest centres?
Faith contacts – Near Neighbours; Presence and Engagement
Share what you know & help others to see the need to know more

21. What to do now Encourage Preparedness (flat resilience)
The plan simply gives us a place think about how to use and advocate that place
Make sure that locally each authority knows we are there
Manage expectations of clergy and other responders
Talking to a dog owner in a rest centre not praying with the dying

22. What to be doing now
Make Friends while you don’t need them