The Emergency Planning team regularly trains City Council staff to respond
to an emergency, and plays a leading role in running training courses and exercises for external organisations
and voluntary groups. In this way, plans are tested both internally and in conjunction with other
agencies, to ensure that an integrated response is effective. This can be done in a ‘table-top’
theoretical exercise, or in a ‘live’ recreation of the effects of an incident.
By creating a scenario, each organisation can examine the effectiveness
of their response to a specific incident, and ensure that the lessons learned are transferable to any
future emergency, as the focus is always on the response and not the incident itself.
Recent events run, solely or jointly, by Nottingham City Council
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June 2006
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Multi-Agency General Awareness Training
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Event for Category 1 staff who may have an involvement with Emegency Planning or Response.
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May 2006
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Local Resilience Forum Gold Training Event
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Event for strategic leaders from responding organisations to jointly explore the role and responsibilities of the Strategic Co-ordination (GOLD) Group
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May 2006
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Public Health Information and Liaison Panel (PHILiP) Seminar
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A multi-agency seminar focusing on the strategic and tactical level response to major emergencies with significant public health impact
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March 2006
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Exercise 'Hotel California'
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Rest Centre exercise to validate Nottingham City Council's Emergency Accommodation Plan.
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March 2006
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Exercise 'Buzby'
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Call out exercise to test the City Council’s preparedness to respond to an emergency out of office hours.
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March 2006
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2 x Rest Centre Manager Training
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Training for managers from within Nottingham City Council who may be called up on to manage a Rest Centre should an area of the City have to be evacuated.
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January 2006
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SMT Flu Pandemic Exercise
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Event for Nottingham City Council Senior Management Team considering the possible strategic implications of a flu pandemic affecting the capacity of the Council to run its services and considering possible solutions and policies it would need to put in place to maintain essential services during any potential pandemic.
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December 2005
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Business Continuity in Nottingham City Council launch event
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Nottingham City Councils Five Step Business Continuity process was issued to representatives from each of Nottingham City Councils departments, to start the process of awareness and writing departmental Business Continuity Plans.
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December 2005
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Rest Centre Manager Training
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Training for managers from within Nottingham City Council who may be called up on to manage a Rest Centre should an area of the City have to be evacuated.
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November 2005
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Exercise 'Grand Prix'
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Mass vacination exercise.
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November 2005
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Exercise 'Sunblast'
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Training and awareness day for the voluntary agencies that work with Nottingham City Council in planning for emergencies.
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October 2005
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Exercise 'Flashpoint'
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Exercise designed to test the Nottingham City Centre Emergency Plan and involving key figures from the emergency services, Nottingham City Council, local businessess and the Government Office for the East Midlands
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October 2005
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Local Resilience Forum Launch Event
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Official launch of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Local Resilience Fourm Partnership. The launch was a major event where many of the significant leaders of key public and private organisations learned of the plans that are being put in place to respond to all types of emergencies.
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June 2005
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Civil Contingencies Act 2004 - It's your responsibility
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Awareness training for Senior Management, Managers and Departmental Liaison Officers from within Nottingham City Council on the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the duties, and implications, of the Act on organisations and individuals.
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Nottingham City Council staff also regularly attend external training
courses run by the Cabinet Office at the Emergency Planning College.
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