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Regional / Local Guidance

The Cabinet Office has issued this guidance as part of our role in providing leadership and guidance to the resilience community and in supporting the Department of Health, as Lead Department, in preparing and planning for a possible influenza pandemic. This guidance replaces the Cabinet Office document 'Contingency planning for a possible influenza pandemic (version 2 10 July 2006)'.

The primary aim of this document is to support 'A national framework for responding to an influenza pandemic' published by the Department for Health in November 2007, to provide local and regional planners with additional guidance and information to support the development of local level, multi-agency plans. This document offers guidance on the required content of local and regional pandemic plans in the form of a checklist.

• Preparing for Pandemic Influenza - Guidance to Local Planners (including checklist for Local Resilience Forum plans) [PDF, 27 pages, 344KB]

Following an analysis of Local Resilience Forum pandemic influenza multi-agency plans against the previous advice provided in Preparing for Pandemic Influenza – Guidance to local planners, the Cabinet Office has produced additional guidance to assist local planners in their pandemic flu preparations: Preparing for pandemic influenza: supplementary guidance for Local Resilience Forum planners.

The principal aims of this document are to: Correct common misunderstandings and / or reinforce key messages; Share best practise from current LRF plans; Share additional national information on the role of LRFs with respect to the non-health response; Provide information beyond that already circulated in the LRF Guidance; Provide a tool for plan development at LRF level and Provide a tool for future validation of plans at the regional/Wales level.

• Preparing for pandemic influenza: supplementary guidance for Local Resilience Forum planners [PDF, 56 pages, 393KB]

• Preparing for pandemic influenza: supplementary guidance for Local Resilience Forum planners (Wales) [PDF, 56 pages, 400KB]

National Planning Assumptions Assessments Tool

To assist local planners in their planning and preparations for an influenza pandemic central government has developed a tool to facilitate the application of National Planning assumptions to the local setting.

• National Planning Assumptions Assessments Tool [Excel file]

Faith Communities and Pandemic Flu

If an influenza pandemic happens in the UK, everyone will need to play a part in managing how it affects our society. This booklet explains how faith communities can play a part in protecting themselves and others, and how they can help face the challenge should an influenza pandemic occur in the UK.

• Guidance for Faith Communities and Local Influenza Pandemic Committees [External website]