North Yorkshire Council

 

Scarborough and Whitby Area Committee

 

3 October 2024

 

Resilience and Emergencies Annual Update 2024

 

 

 

1.0       PURPOSE OF REPORT

 

1.1       This report provides an update on progress and incidents impacting emergency planning and community resilience within the Area Committee and wider council area.

 

 

2.0       BACKGROUND

 

2.1       Under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA) North Yorkshire Council (NYC) is defined as a Category 1 organisation.

 

The CCA is the driver for how agencies prepare and plan for emergencies, working

nationally, locally and co-operatively to ensure civil protection in the UK

 

The Act places a statutory duty on the NYC to:

 

·         Assess the risk of emergencies occurring and use this to inform contingency planning;

·         Put in place emergency plans;

·         Put in place Business Continuity Management arrangements;

·         Put in place arrangements to make information available to the public about civil protection matters and maintain arrangements to warn, inform and advise the public in the event of an emergency;

·         Share information with other local responders to enhance co-ordination;

·         Co-operate with other local responders to enhance co-ordination and efficiency; and

·         Provide advice and assistance to businesses and voluntary organisations about business continuity management (Local Authorities only).

 

Emergency Planning and Community Resilience should aim where possible to prevent emergencies occurring, and when they do occur, good planning should reduce, control or mitigate the effects of the emergency. It is a systematic and ongoing process which should evolve as lessons are learnt and circumstances change.


 

 

3.0       INCIDENTS AFFECTING NORTH YORKSHIRE BETWEEN 2023/2024

 

3.1       Between April 2023 and the production of this report NYC and its Local Resilience Forum partner agencies have come together to respond and recover from the following incidents:

 

Incident

Locality

Date

Thornton Steward Water Treatment Works

Richmond and Northallerton

09.05.23

999 emergency calls outage

UK wide

25.06.23

Protest, Scarborough

Scarborough and Whitby

15.06.23

Marine Residence Hotel Fire, Scarborough

Scarborough and Whitby

16.06.23

Diesel Spillage A65, Settle

Skipton and Ripon

25.06.23

Domiciliary Care Provider incident

 

02.09.23

Prime Minister Northallerton Residence Protest

Richmond and Northallerton

03.09.23

Mass die off of birds on coastal beaches

Scarborough and Whitby

18.09.23

Fire in Skipton

Skipton and Ripon

01.10.23

Storm Babet

North Yorkshire wide

18.10.23

Influenza A(H1N2)v case

Thirsk and Malton

 

Storm Ciaran

North Yorkshire wide

01.11.23

Storm Debi

North Yorkshire wide

13.11.23

Storm Elin

North Yorkshire wide

09.12.23

Storm Fergus

North Yorkshire wide

10.12.23

Storm Gerrit

North Yorkshire wide

27.12.23

Storm Henk

North Yorkshire wide

02.01.24

Storm Isha

North Yorkshire wide

21.01.24

Storm Jocelyn

North Yorkshire wide

23.01.24

Storm Kathleen

North Yorkshire wide

06.04.24

Knaresborough flash floods

Harrogate and Knaresborough

06.05.24

Critical incident, Carlton in Cleveland

Richmond and Northallerton

22.05.24

Fire at Molson Coors Brewery Company, Tadcaster

Selby and Ainsty

13.06.24

Fire at The Princess Fish & Chips, Scarborough

Scarborough and Whitby

25.06.24

Prison capacity pressures

UK wide

15.07.24

Potential public disorder

UK wide

08.08.24

 

3.2       Areas of good practice that will be further developed:

 

·                Working in partnership with the Chain Lane Community Anchor Organisation during the Knaresborough flood incident to support local residents from the Local Assistant Centre.

·                The further development of the NYC sandbag offer to allow for members of public to self serve from key sites.

·                To embed a more resilience out of hours commander structure by having standby Bronze Commanders covering the East, West and Central Areas of the County.

 

3.3       If Elected Members have any views or recommendations on any of these incidents please send them through to emergency@northyorks.gov.uk.


 

4.0       NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNCIL’S CORPORATE EMERGENCY PLANNING GROUP WORK PLAN AND PROGRESS 2024/25

 

4.1       The following is set out within the NYC Resilience and Emergencies Policy:

 

·         The organisation has appointed the Assistant Chief Executive for Local Engagement as the Accountable Emergency Officer (AEO) responsible for Resilience and Emergencies.

·         The Integrated Emergency Planning Cycle is co-ordinated for the Council by the Head of Resilience and Emergencies and the Resilience and Emergencies Team (RET).

·         The Assistant Chief Executive for Local Engagement chairs the Corporate Resilience and Emergencies Group (CREG).  The CREG is made up of a number of Senior Managers within NYC who have a role to play in ensuring CCA Duties. The CREG hold responsibility for setting and delivering an annual work plan.

·         The current work plan and progress of the Corporate Emergency Planning Group is found at Appendix A.

 

5.0       ELECTED MEMBERS ROLE IN INTEGRATED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

 

5.1       Each Area Committee is allocated a Resilience and Emergencies Officer.  They will work with Elected members to ensure:

 

·                Elected members training,

·                that local risks are identified within your locality,

·                that community resilience has been developed,

·                that resources and capability gaps are identified, as well as difficulties in communicating these risks to specific groups within your electoral division are co-ordinated.

 

5.2       Elected members are then asked to provide ongoing support to develop Integrated Emergency Management within their electoral divisions.  This will include:

 

·                Supporting the communication of community risks

·                Provide leadership in developing community resilience.

·                Work with the locality Resilience and Emergencies officers to identify opportunities for funding resource gaps.

·                Support training and exercises for community groups.

 

5.3       If Elected Members wish to discuss any of these roles and responsibilities with their allocated Resilience and Emergencies Officer please contact emergency@northyorks.gov.uk.

 

6.0       COMMUNITY RESILIENCE WORK PLAN AND PROGRESS 2023/24

 

6.1       For decades the Resilience and Emergencies Team have worked with Parish and Town Councils alongside local businesses to encourage them to develop Community Emergency Plans.

 

6.2       Following the community support during the Covid pandemic, Resilience and Emergencies has been working with the Council’s Local Engagement Teams and the Community Anchor Organisations to develop a new Community Resilience Policy.   

 

This policy will be developed by the end of 2024 and the role out and engagement on the policy will be delivered through three Community Resilience workshops which will be run prior to April 2025. Elected Members will be invited to these workshops.

 

            Elected Members – Community Resilience Profile

 

6.3       Last year Elected Members were provided with the opportunity of accessing their own Community Resilience Profile.

 

These are owned and reviewed by the Resilience and Emergencies Team and Elected Members can access their profile, as well as discuss their developments, via their allocated Resilience and Emergencies Officer.

 

7.0       FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

 

7.1       There are no financial implications arising directly from this report as it provides information only.

 

8.0       LEGAL IMPLICATIONS

 

8.1       There are no legal implications arising directly from this report as it provides information only.

 

9.0       EQUALITIES IMPLICATIONS

 

9.1       There are no equalities implications arising directly from this report as it provides information only.

 

10.0     ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS/BENEFITS INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT

 

10.1     There are no equalities implications arising directly from this report as it provides information only.

 

11.0     REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS

 

11.1     The recommendations contained below are to engage with and invite comments from Members on the content of this report, which followings the agreement with Members’ to provide an annual update.

 

 

12.0

 

RECOMMENDATION

 

12.1

Committee Members are requested to note the information within the report and offer comments.

 

 

 

APPENDICES:

Appendix A – Corporate Emergency Planning Group Work Plan 2024/2025

Appendix B – Community Emergency Plans within Area Constituency Committee Wards

 

 

Background Documents: None

 

 

Report author – Matt Robinson, Head of Resilience and Emergencies

 

 


Corporate Emergency Planning Group Work Plan 2024/2025

Corporate EP Group – Area of work

Comment

Locality response to incidents

        Bronze Commander

        Forward Liaison Officers

        Integrated Emergency Management Groups

        Share organisation learning

        Locality training

A priority for this year is to understand how the ongoing restructures affect the Council’s ability to anticipate, assess, prevent, prepare, respond and recover to emergencies.

 

This involves building new networks of staff and where required develop new processes.

Operational Flood Plans

        Sandbag response – new BAU

        NYC flood assets – before and during incidents

        Community impact

A priority for this year is to focus on how the Council approaches its flooding responsibilities before, during and after events.

Community Resilience (Humanitarian Assistance)

A priority for this year will be the continuation of community resilience and the integration within community partnerships. This will accumulates with three Community Resilience workshops in the new year.

Horizon Scanning of risk update for Management Board

To provide (twice yearly, quarterly) updates on the community risks within North Yorkshire.

Annual Exercise (November)

Going forward NYC will do one large internal exercise each November

2 x Bronze Commander Training

Going forward NYC will always offer 2 x Bronze Commander Training

2 x Service Silver Training

Going forward NYC will always offer 2 x Service Silver Training

Ongoing Silver Commander Training

Going forward NYC will always offer ongoing Silver Commander Training

Ongoing Incident Support Officer Training

Going forward NYC will always offer ongoing Incident Support Officer Training


Flood warning sign up and Community Emergency Plans within Area Constituency Committee wards

 

Electoral_Div

Elected Member

Flood warning (FW) name

Properties in FW

% of residents signed up FW

Community Emergency Plan

Castle

Councillor Janet Jefferson

North Sea at Scarborough - Sandside

83

56.6

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Castle

Councillor Janet Jefferson

North Sea at Scarborough - Foreshore Road

34

61.8

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Castle

Councillor Janet Jefferson

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Cayton division

Councillor Roberta Swiers

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

Gristhorpe and Lebberston in development

Danby & Mulgrave

Councillor David Chance

North Sea at Staithes

28

64.3

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Danby & Mulgrave

Councillor David Chance

North Sea at Sandsend

53

62.3

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Danby & Mulgrave

Councillor David Chance

River Esk at Lealholm

39

82.1

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Danby & Mulgrave

Councillor David Chance

River Esk at Danby

19

52.6

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Danby & Mulgrave

Councillor David Chance

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Derwent Valley & Moor

Councillor David Jeffels

River Derwent at East and West Ayton

152

71.7

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Derwent Valley & Moor

Councillor David Jeffels

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Eastfield division

Councillor Tony Randerson

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Esk Valley & Coast

Councillor Clive Pearson

River Esk at Briggswath

39

64.1

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Esk Valley & Coast

Councillor Clive Pearson

River Esk at Egton Bridge

17

58.8

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Esk Valley & Coast

Councillor Clive Pearson

River Esk at Glaisdale

6

16.7

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Esk Valley & Coast

Councillor Clive Pearson

Other areas not affected by flood warning

 

 

Grosmont in development

Falsgrave & Stepney division

Councillor Liz Colling

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Newby division

Councillor Subash Sharma

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Northstead

Councillor Eric Broadbent

North Sea at Scarborough - North Bay

15

40

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Northstead

Councillor Eric Broadbent

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Scalby & the Coast

Councillor Derek Bastiman

Sea Cut at Mowthorpe, Scalby and Newby including Newby Beck

158

77.8

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Scalby & the Coast

Councillor Derek Bastiman

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Seamer division

Councillor Heather Phillips

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Weaponness & Ramshill

Councillor Rich Maw

North Sea at Scarborough - Spa Complex

5

40

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Weaponness & Ramshill

Councillor Rich Maw

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Whitby Streonshalh

Councillor Neil Swannick

North Sea and River Esk at Whitby Harbour

504

60.1

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Whitby Streonshalh

Councillor Neil Swannick

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Whitby West

Councillor Phil Trumper

River Esk at Ruswarp

115

70.4

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Whitby West

Councillor Phil Trumper

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area

Woodlands division

Councillor John Ritchie

Other areas not affected by flood warning

N/A

N/A

NYC are not aware of a plan in area