Decision details

The Director of Public Health recommends additional capacity within Civil Contingency which provides essential expertise in incident and outbreak management and will be an essential resource in any escalation.
Funding will provide a trained emergency planning expertise to:
•Support the use of incident management JESIP principles – including the creation of shared situational awareness, joint understanding of risk, dynamic risk assessment and defensible decision making
•Deliver concise, documented Outbreak Management procedures
•Ensure procedures are tested and robust
•Ensure escalation routes within the Council and to multi-agency response partners are tested and robust
•Deliver tested operating procedures for activating testing sites
•Provide a link with multi-agency response partners through the Local Resilience Forum, including Police, Fire, Ambulance, Environment Agency, transport and utility providers
•Ensure the impact of outbreaks and outbreak management on BCC’s business continuity is considered
•Ensure the Outbreak Management Group are sighted on other issues affecting the city, including other emergencies and that the impact of these on Outbreak Management are understood
•Provide training and support for responders as required
•Provide training and support for logging incidents as required
•Provide a view on the impact of Outbreak Management on critical infrastructure within the City
Funding is from the ring fenced Outbreak Management (Test and Trace Fund) and will pay for communications, campaigns and public messaging to support outbreak prevention and outbreak control.
The Outbreak Management Fund is a ring fenced grant to be used for the specific purpose of managing the local response to Covid-19, as described in the Local Outbreak Management Plan
The Director of Public Health, with the Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for advising the authority in relation to the Outbreak Management Plan and associated funding.

To allocate additional funding to Civil Contingency as Local Outbreak Management is additional to exiting duties, and is additional to on going responsibilities held by the council for risk management and response. Additional resource is therefore required.

None. This is an essential activity for both prevention, response and management of risk.