Emergency contingency plans
Lack of pre-existing contingency plans for emergencies (e.g., pandemics), leading to a scramble and flawed early scheme design.
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Inquiry recommendation
90match
TAYL-F63 - Brief entrance police on emergency service plans and deployment information
Police officers posted at the entrances to the ground should be briefed as to the contingency plans for the arrival of emergency services and should be informed when such services are called as to where and why they are required.
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terms: contingency, emergency, plan
NAO recommendation
86match
Progress delivering the Emergency Services Network
The Home Office should develop a contingency plan that sets out what it will do if technology on which the overall ESN programme is dependent does not work. The contingency plan should be linked to key delivery milestones for the contractors and include clear criteria for activating it.
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terms: contingency, emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
85match
TAYL-F62 - Review emergency vehicle access, rendezvous points, and internal ground accessibility
Contingency plans for the arrival at each designated sports ground of emergency vehicles from all three services should be reviewed. They should include routes of access, rendezvous points, and accessibility within the ground itself.
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terms: contingency, emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
83match
FENN-12 - Include evacuation by train within all station emergency evacuation plans.
Station evacuation plans should include evacuation by train.
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terms: emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
83match
HIDD-87 - Develop and regularly exercise effective emergency plans for all station staff
BR shall ensure that each area manager, station manager and all senior station staff have an effective emergency plan for their area that is understood by all their staff and is the subject of regular exercises.
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terms: emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
83match
HIDD-76 - Require BR and emergency services to maintain joint planning with table-top exercises
In the exercise of command and control at accident sites BR and the emergency services shall maintain their policy of joint planning supported by table-top exercises.
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terms: emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
83match
MAI-42 - SMG sharing of emergency response plans
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.
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terms: emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
82match
FENN-152 - Consider national disaster planning desk for experience and emergency coordination
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.
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terms: emergency, plan
Committee recommendation
81match
#2 - Thirteenth Report: Whole of Government Response to COVID-19
We understand and acknowledge that the usual processes for scrutinising and approving spending decisions may need to be relaxed when urgent action is needed during an emergency. In the following paragraph we criticise the transparency over ministerial directions, not the fact that they were necessary in the circumstances. But with more economic scenario planning in advance, while a...
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terms: contingency, emergency, plan
NAO recommendation
80match
COVID-19 business grant schemes
HMT and DBT, working with local authorities, should by December 2023 draw up contingency plans to cover the provision of financial support to priority groups in the event of a future national emergency. The plans should draw upon the considerable experience gained by the departments and local authorities during the pandemic.
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terms: contingency, emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
78match
LADB-4 - Review railway emergency planning, including survivor after-care and bereaved support
The Railway Group should review emergency planning, including liaison with the emergency services, arrangements for the after-care of survivors and the provision of support and facilities for the bereaved and injured (para 4.122).
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terms: emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
78match
HIDD-80 - Department of Health to review BASICS' role and funding in emergency planning
In revising the Circular the Department of Health shall consider the role of BASICS in emergency planning and review BASICS' funding arrangements.
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terms: emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
78match
COVID-M3.5 - Scale Up Urgent and Emergency Care
The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive, in conjunction with organisations responsible for delivering services, should plan for surge capacity in urgent and emergency care during a pandemic. Plans must ensure that there is sufficient workforce capacity and the ability to surge, including the number and type of staff required, recruitment and training provision....
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terms: emergency, plan
PFD report
77match
Arthur Mason
Staff lacked formal risk assessment training and failed to identify risks for farm tasks, compounded by the absence of a comprehensive emergency plan for hazardous areas.
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terms: emergency, plan
PFD report
77match
Sandra Brotherton
A sole carer did not have a contingency plan in place for emergencies, a personal assistant's care plan was not clearly documented or provided, and an urgent consultant psychiatrist appointment was difficult to obtain.
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terms: contingency, plan
Committee recommendation
77match
#4 - Thirteenth Report: Whole of Government Response to COVID-19
Effective coordination and command structures are critical for good decision making in any ongoing emergency. The government set up four ministerial implementation committees to coordinate the pandemic response across government, reporting into the COVID-19 group chaired by the Prime Minister, and subsequently replaced these with operations and strategy committees. However, decision making on important issues, such as introducing...
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terms: emergency, plan
NAO recommendation
76match
Lessons learned: tackling fraud and protecting propriety in government spending during an emergency
m) We recommend that the Public Sector Fraud Authority develop and test a plan so that in an emergency it has the following: ? Clarity over the key counter-fraud priorities. This should build on the experience of providing the global fraud risk assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic and provide clarity on where the resources are needed. This should...
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terms: emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
74match
MAI-47 - Sufficient resources for operational planning
His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing and the Home Office should work together to put in place robust systems, policies and guidance to ensure that all police services have sufficient resources dedicated to the development of operational and contingency plans, particularly for responding to Major Incidents, including terrorist attacks.
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terms: contingency, plan
PFD report
73match
Jasmine Lapsley
Emergency services in rural NW Wales suffer from a lack of nighttime air support, ineffective rostering and communication for Community First Responders, and inadequate resource planning for seasonal population increases.
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terms: emergency, plan
PFD report
73match
James Fox
Concerns were raised about the accuracy of close-range police firearms, lack of less-lethal options, inadequate contingency planning for volatile situations, and inconsistent national training for officers.
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terms: contingency, plan
PFD report
73match
Margaret Wakefield
Critical care haemofiltration was unavailable in a timely manner, leading to patient deterioration and death, indicating a failure in access and contingency planning for vital treatments.
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terms: contingency, plan
PFD report
73match
Michael Brennan
A critical backup plan for emergency patient transfer failed due to unavailability of a satellite hospital bed, highlighting a lack of real-time bed status information for clinicians across the Trust's multiple sites.
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terms: emergency, plan
NAO recommendation
73match
The supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic
Emergency plans for dealing with a pandemic must provide for appropriate stockpiles of high-quality PPE together with comprehensive and resilient arrangements for the rapid procurement and distribution of PPE, based on reliable information. Plans need to include distribution of PPE to social care and all parts of the health system. Organisations responsible for maintaining and testing their plans...
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terms: emergency, plan
NAO recommendation
72match
The government’s preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for government on risk management
The Cabinet Office should strengthen oversight and assurance arrangements over preparations for system-wide emergencies. These should include publishing standards against which lead government departments, supporting departments and other public sector organisations can assess their level of preparedness for major emergencies, developing external assurance processes to assess, on a regular basis, whether there are adequate preparations in place that...
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terms: emergency, plan
IMB recommendation
72match
Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre (2022)
In light of the problems experienced during the November 2022 evacuation of Harmondsworth, e.g. lost possessions, inadequate emergency clothing and inadequate communication with detainees, we would urge the Home Office to ensure that the HIRC Contingency Plan is reviewed and is truly ‘fit for purpose’.
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terms: contingency, emergency, plan
PFD report
69match
Peter Keep
The hospital lacked a clear sedation policy for cardiac procedures, leading to inconsistent drug use, inadequate staff training on anxiolytics, and no action plan for patient intolerance or airway emergencies.
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terms: plan
Committee recommendation
69match
#16 - 1st Report - Subsea telecommunications cables: resilience and crisis preparedness
Emergency services should ensure their business continuity plans highlight any areas of critical reliance on foreign internet servers, and account for temporary internet disruption in the event of a security crisis. (Recommendation, Paragraph 100) Legal Responses
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terms: emergency, plan
Committee recommendation
69match
#14 - 1st Report - Subsea telecommunications cables: resilience and crisis preparedness
The impacts of catastrophic disruption from a co-ordinated attack remain speculative, but are almost certainly highly damaging. We estimate they would include payment and supply chain failures, some degraded communications, overstretched emergency responses, and unexpected cascading issues—all at a time of crisis. We are not convinced there are currently adequate sector-by-sector assessments of reliance on subsea cables, or...
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terms: emergency, plan
Committee recommendation
69match
#13 - 1st Report - Subsea telecommunications cables: resilience and crisis preparedness
The UK has particular vulnerabilities around outlying islands, the financial sector and military communications cables. These should be a key focus for contingency planning. (Conclusion, Paragraph 81)
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terms: contingency, plan
Committee recommendation
69match
#9 - 1st Report - Subsea telecommunications cables: resilience and crisis preparedness
The Government’s resilience plans should focus in more detail on the level of immediately available capacity in the cable system during a security crisis. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology should request operators to provide regular updates on the scale and type of data each cable carries, short notice rerouting capacity and their ability to prioritise critical...
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terms: contingency, plan
Committee recommendation
69match
#8 - 1st Report - Subsea telecommunications cables: resilience and crisis preparedness
The Government’s resilience concept focuses too much on ‘having lots of cables’. This pays insufficient attention to the network’s actual capacity to absorb shocks and does not account for onshore vulnerabilities and long-term trends towards a more brittle system. There is also limited understanding of much damage the system can sustain before data stops rerouting properly, triggering temporary...
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terms: contingency, plan
Committee recommendation
69match
#6 - 1st Report - Subsea telecommunications cables: resilience and crisis preparedness
The National Protective Security Authority (NPSA) and National Cyber Security Centre should require all UK landing stations to be target-hardened to sufficient levels to deter state-backed sabotage. They should require landing station operators to develop within 12 months an emergency ‘good enough’ repair plan to recover from co-ordinated attacks. The NPSA should also conduct a similar exercise with...
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terms: emergency, plan
Committee recommendation
69match
#16 - Thirteenth Report: Whole of Government Response to COVID-19
The Cabinet Office acknowledged that it was taken by surprise by the need for a massive quantity of protective equipment, and by the difficulty of sourcing it from reliable UK-based suppliers.36 It said that a particular challenge was supplying PPE to care homes, hospices and community care organisations. While NHS systems are designed to deal with supplying the...
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terms: plan
Committee recommendation
69match
#3 - Thirteenth Report: Whole of Government Response to COVID-19
We are concerned that lessons have not been learned ahead of a potential second spike of infections. It is not clear that the government is undertaking the necessary preparatory work for a second peak of infections. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy still has nothing convincing to say about what lessons it might have learned from...
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terms: plan
Article 2 learning point
68match
DM — Southampton Magistrates’ Court - LP 7
We recommend that a local contingency plan is put in place for the steps to be taken in the event of an emergency. This should include notification of court security staff when an ambulance has been called and that a member of staff able to report changes in the patient’s condition and to act on advice needs to...
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terms: contingency, emergency, plan
Inquiry recommendation
66match
FENN-9 - Agree station emergency instructions with LFB for staff training
Station instructions for emergencies and closure must be agreed with the London Fire Brigade and used in training station staff.
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
66match
HIDD-82 - BR to review and test communication systems with emergency services weekly
BR shall review its communication systems with the emergency services to ensure that efficient methods exist to provide and disseminate early information requiring immediate action. In the course of the review BR shall look particularly at communication between signal boxes and the emergency services. Systems shall be tested weekly and logged.
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
66match
HIDD-74 - Require emergency services to recognise Civil Police primacy in non-fire accidents
The emergency services shall recognise the primacy of the Civil Police authority in accidents of this kind where there is no fire. This recognition does not preclude delegation to the LFB of control at trackside.
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
65match
COVID-M3.7 - ICU Resource Allocation Framework
The UK government and devolved administrations should publish a UK-wide framework setting out ethical and operational principles to guide the allocation of adult intensive care resources in the extreme event that they are saturated during a pandemic. That framework must: be informed by comprehensive engagement with the public and developed in conjunction with professionals across healthcare, law and...
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terms: plan
Committee recommendation
65match
#6 - Third Report: Flying Home: The FCO’s consular response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Whilst a relatively large financial package was developed for those suffering from COVID-19 related financial hardship in the UK, little was done to provide help for those UK citizens stuck abroad. The FCO had emergency loans available, but both take up and awareness were low. The FCO also made clear that it was only willing to offer these...
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terms: emergency
Committee recommendation
65match
#50 - Fourth Report: Home Office preparedness for COVID-19 (Coronavirus): institutional accommodation
The experience of the pandemic has demonstrated the importance of implementing this Committee’s previous recommendations both in respect of asylum accommodation and immigration detention. We welcome the Home Office’s commitment to proceed carefully “back to a more normal state of affairs”. We also welcome its commitment to talk to local government and to take public health advice seriously...
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terms: plan
NAO recommendation
65match
Increasing the capacity of the prison estate to meet demand
MoJ should combine thinking on policy objectives for the prison estate and improved evidence of different approaches to develop a long-term strategy to improve the resilience of the estate. It should: set out contingency plans for any unexpected increases in demand.
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terms: contingency, plan
HMICFRS recommendation
64match
FRS 2023-25 CoC Recommendations: Avon Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service’s mobilisation system, which records information and dispatches resources to emergency incidents, isn’t reliable and crashes during emergency 999 calls. This unnecessarily delays the mobilisation of resources, which results in the public receiving a slower response to emergencies. Recommendation: By 19 September 2023, the service should develop an action plan to make sure fire...
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terms: emergency, plan
NAO recommendation
64match
Resilience to animal disease
g ensure their disease outbreak plans are comprehensive and up-to-date, including updating disease-specific plans where required, ensuring plans cover responding to concurrent large exotic disease outbreaks and a scenario where capacity is insufficient, and developing a contingency plan for an exotic zoonotic disease outbreak.
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terms: contingency, plan
NAO recommendation
64match
The decommissioning of the AGR nuclear power stations
Given the impact that early closure of a station can have on the costs incurred by the Fund, the Department should, with EDFE, review the risks of early closure at each of the AGR stations to ensure appropriate contingency planning is in place.
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terms: contingency, plan
NAO recommendation
64match
The government’s approach to test and trace in England – interim report
b) plan against a range of plausible outcomes to ensure it has flexibility to respond to predictable and unexpected spikes in testing demand. Problems emerged when schools and universities reopened in September, despite a predictable spike in demand. NHST&T also needs to have contingency plans in place so it can respond to unexpected spikes in community testing, in...
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terms: contingency, plan
NAO recommendation
64match
Achieving net zero
BEIS should: • prepare contingency plans that consider how to provide greater certainty and transparency around its net zero plans even if a full strategy is not possible prior to COP26 given the ongoing uncertainty around the impact of COVID-19.
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terms: contingency, plan
ICIBI recommendation
64match
An inspection of the Home Office’s Afghan resettlement schemes (October 2022 – April 2023)
The Home Office should develop robust contingency plans to prepare for future crisis events. These plans must focus on the accurate collection and assurance of data.
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terms: contingency, plan
NAO recommendation
64match
Preparations to extend early years entitlements to working parents in England
For DfE to increase its chances of meeting forthcoming milestones it should: B) better use data to explore how variations in availability of early years places, parental take-up and workforce could impact future performance and costs. It should then set out contingency arrangements for plausible scenarios with clear criteria for activating these plans;
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terms: contingency, plan
NAO recommendation
64match
Department for Work and Pensions Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21
• conduct a full lessons-learned exercise from its approach to fraud and error during COVID-19 and consider wider lessons from the pandemic for its processes and controls, balance of detection and prevention controls and future emergency planning.
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terms: emergency, plan