Issue - meetings

(i)            to note the progress made with implementing the recommendations of the PREVENT peer review; and

(ii)          instruct the Chief Officer – Governance to submit a further report to the October 2019 Committee consolidating the Council’s resilience arrangements within a single generic emergency plan.

The Committee had before it the Resilience Annual Report which also included the PREVENT Update.

The Committee first heard from the Assurance Manager who provided a summary of the organisational resilience aspects of the report.

The Committee heard that processes and procedures had been adapted following self-assessment of resilience arrangements in 2017 and that in addition every incident is followed by an internal debrief. This identifies lessons to be learned and actions to be taken to improve the Council’s response to incidents.

Activities were in place to produce a single generic Emergency Plan across all Council services to assist Duty Emergency Response Co-ordinators (DERCs) discharge their duties.

The Committee next heard from Derek McGowan who summarised the PREVENT aspects of the report.

The Committee heard that the planned delivery dates for implementation of the identified 18 Actions would be met and that the activity remained under constant review based around global and local activity and included the benefit of a Peer Review Team to assist.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)            to note the progress made with implementing the recommendations of the PREVENT peer review; and

(ii)          instruct the Chief Officer – Governance to submit a further report to the October 2019 Committee consolidating the Council’s resilience arrangements within a single generic emergency plan.