Stakeholder Bulletin:
Call for proposals: Informal guidance for implementing the Communicating
with the Public Duty under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004
15 June 2007
This introduces two new guides designed to assist Local Resilience Forums
take forward the statutory requirement placed on Category 1 Responders to
advise the public of the risk of an emergency occurring, and to warn and
inform the public in the event of an emergency.
These informal guidance notes – the 'Ten Step Cycle' and 'Lead
Responders Guide' – have been created by practitioners from the
National Steering Committee for Warning & Informing the Public (NSCWIP)
in conjunction with Practitioners' Good Practice Group led by the Civil
Contingencies Secretariat (CCS) and are part of the work CCS is doing to
support local respondersin their implementation of the newer aspects of the
Act.
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The The Ten Step
Cycle – an informal guidance note [PDF, 15 pages,
124KB] provides a clear and comprehensive set of directions for
establishing local warning and informing arrangements based on the
Community Risk Register. It focuses on key activities for the work,
including establishing a public advice and warning sub-group, selection
of lead responders, audience identification, stakeholder consultation,
exercising, and review. Each activity is explained and, where
appropriate, examples of how an LRF have undertaken it are given.
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The Lead
Responder Protocol [PDF, 18 pages, 140KB] picks
up Step 3 of the Cycle and provides a tested methodology for selecting
and agreeing lead responders. This is in keeping with Regulations which
allow for the duty on each Category 1 Responder to be cut back by the
identification of one organisation to take lead responsibility for
maintaining arrangements to warn in regard to a particular emergency.
We hope that you will find these guides useful in your local activity to
implement the duty. We envisage further development of these informal
guidance notes with the input of users, so your experiences of using them
and any ideas you may have for improvement would be very welcome. Please
contact us at ccact@cabinetoffice.
x.gsi.gov.uk.
