EPC publish 2 new papers on: Leadership in UK Multi-Agency Co-ordination Groups & Developing a

This paper is not intended as a discussion of leadership in general. Its purpose is to define and briefly examine the functions of leaders in the local (strategic and tactical) multi-agency co-ordinating groups convened to manage civil emergencies in the UK. By local, we mean the level of the police force or constabulary area in England and Wales that mirrors the Local Resilience Forum. As such, it is concerned specifically with what those leaders need to do to make the local level of the UK national Concept of Operations for emergency management work in practice.

The purpose of this position paper

is to describe the EPC’s approach

to planning, authoring and

managing exercises which are

designed to examine and validate organisations’ resilience plans and arrangements. Whilst this is, we suggest, the primary aim of exercising in general, it is also recognised that exercising has other potential benefits which are important and add value to resilience arrangements and capabilities. These include:

• Embedding resilience plans and arrangements in the organisation;

• Confirming that people have the knowledge and skills to apply those plans and arrangements;

• Identifying gaps and areas for improvement in planning, training and arrangements.

• Supporting a strategy of integrated incident and crisis management, through an iterative cycle of planning, training and exercising leading to learning and improvement.