Vulnerable Groups
To assist the statutory agencies to support the vulnerable within the local area, Local Authorities are working with parish councils to set up community resilience teams which may establish a 'Good Neighbour Network' where the community will be able to identify people who may be at risk.
In an emergency, the community should feed details of vulnerable people back to a nominated member of the Community Resilience Team. The information should include contact details for the vulnerable person/s including those who already receive care / welfare support and details of who provides this. This will allow the Community Resilience Team to ensure that the care continues. This information should only be collated in an emergency.
Sites in the community such as care homes may also need additional support in an emergency.
What other information is available on Community Resilience?
The Preparing for Emergencies - Guide for Communities document introduces you to the first steps you could take to become better prepared to deal with emergencies. It uses case studies to explain the benefits experienced by communities that are already involved in community resilience. You are likely to find this document most useful if you are new to community resilience and want to find out more about what is involved.
The Community Emergency Plan Toolkit sets out a number of practical suggestions for how you can get started in building resilience in your community. This includes a suggested generic template plan that you can adapt for use locally. You are likely to find this document most useful if you want to see an example of the practical steps you could take to create a community emergency plan.
The Preparing for Emergencies web pages are aimed at individuals, families, communities and businesses that want to find out more about how they can prepare for emergencies. The pages aim to answer questions about individual and community resilience and increase awareness of risks and vulnerability to risk. They also set out some easy steps for how you can improve your household preparedness. You are likely to find this document most useful if you would like more general information about emergency preparedness.