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Community Recovery/Liaison
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Purpose
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Membership
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Role
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To canvas community concerns, feelings and initiatives and assist in informing the wider community of actions proposed. Assist in impact assessment of affected community.
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- Lead: local authority
- appropriate RP representatives
- local authority members
- community council representatives
- residents associations
- tenants associations
- local schools
- local businesses
- community health, safety, planning networks
- community groups (including religious/faith groups and voluntary organisations).
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- Canvas community concerns, feelings and initiatives and bring these to the attention of the RP
- assist in informing the wider community of proposals for recovery;
- engage the community in the recovery process
- consider the community's interests in the context of overall recovery aims and objectives, including the choice between 'normalisation' and 'regeneration'.
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Care for People
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Purpose
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Membership
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Role
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- To co-ordinate the provision of full range of practical, and personal, assistance and support for those directly or indirectly affected by the emergency.
- Enable the community easy access to the required support/assistance.
- Bring together all agencies with a role in caring for people.
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- Lead: local authority
- local authority services (e.g. social care, children, adults and housing services)
- health services (e.g. primary care, mental health services)
- police (family liaison co-ordinators)
- utilities
- transport operators and their care teams
- occupational health and staff welfare
- voluntary organisations
- faith communities
- other organisations with a role in caring for people (e.g. housing associations
- private/commercial carers.
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- Advise and inform the decisions of the RP
- implement the RP’s strategies by co- ordinating its members’ activities and integrating them with other functions’ activities
- deliver services through its members’ staff working at an operational level.
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Environment and Infrastructure
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Purpose
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Membership
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Role
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Use expertise (and monitoring data) to give viable options for clean-up, repair and replacement. Liaise closely with stakeholders.
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- Lead: local authority
- Local authority and its service specialists
- Scottish Government
- site owners and insurers
- health and safety advisors
- SEPA
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency for pollution response and environmental clean-up
- scientific specialists including (if necessary) the Government Decontamination Service
- regulators
- food and water supply specialists
- public utilities
- community representatives.
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- Develop a preferred remediation strategy for approval by the RP to cover cleaning, repair, replacement or regeneration of the physical infrastructure and clean-up of the natural environment to an agreed state
- review integrity of key assets and prepare strategy for reinstatement where required
- to implement the RP’s strategy.
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Public communications Group
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Purpose
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Membership
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Role
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- To develop an audience based communications strategy based on RP recovery strategy(ies) as an extension of the work of public communication in the immediate response
- Ensure that the public and media are fully informed and consulted
- Advise and inform the communications output of all other sub-groups
- Address local, regional and national communication issues
- Allow communities to make informed decisions.
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- Lead: subject to local arrangements
- communications practitioners from all local responders (press officers, webmasters, direct communications and marketing, and internal and stakeholder communications, etc.)
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- Advise and inform the discussions of the RP
- prepare strategic advice on public communications
- identify key groups and individuals affected by emergency, response and recovery
- develop a co-ordinated communication plan
- prepare joint messages/statements;
- establish communication facilities
- manage the media relations process.
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Scientific and Technical Advice
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Purpose
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Membership
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Role
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To co-ordinate and provide specialist scientific and technical advice including on public health and the environment.
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- Lead: NHS Board - director of public health or consultant in public health medicine
- local authority - senior environmental health representative
- fire and rescue service - HAZMAT officer, or scientific adviser if available locally
- lead responder - liaison officer (usually from the police)
- media and communications officer;
- Health Protection Scotland - consultant
- SEPA - liaison representative.
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- Advise and inform the discussions of the RP by providing authoritative information and advice on the risk assessment of health and environmental hazards
- co-ordinate with all the relevant specialist advisers through a single group
- provide agreed recommendations on risk management action
- provide co-ordinated risk communication messages
- confine the main discussion on such issues within the STAC itself (rather than at the main co-ordinating group meetings).
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Finance and Legal
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Purpose
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Membership
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Role
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To assess the financial and legal implications of the emergency and provide advice to the RP, its partners and those affected.
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- Lead: local authority
- senior finance and legal officers from RP partnership and other organisations involved.
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- Advise and inform the discussions of the RP
- explore different streams for financial aid
- seek authority to incur expenditure
- monitor all recovery expenditure and report to RP on allocation and recovery
- consider any litigation, criminal, or public inquiry issues
- provide advice and guidance on the establishment and management of disaster funds and trusts.
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Business and Economic Recovery
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Purpose
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Membership
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Role
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- Assess the economic implications for the affected area and provide assistance
- Enable businesses affected by the emergency to resume trading as soon as possible.
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- Lead: local authority
- SG Directorates (as appropriate)
- UK Government Departments (as appropriate)
- Local business forums / networks
- Chambers of Commerce
- Learning and Skills Council
- local tourist board
- trades unions
- trade associations / retail forums
- Association of British Insurers
- other agencies as required, e.g. National Trust, National Farmers Union, etc.
- local economic partnership representatives.
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- Advise and inform the discussions of the RP by devising an economic recovery strategy that takes account of any longer term strategic regeneration and economic development opportunities in the affected area
- support affected businesses
- engage with those able to provide grants and financial support for recovery/regeneration.
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