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Community Resilience – Some Experience from Scotland
Ralph Throp
Head of Community Resilience PolicyThe Scottish Government
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Aims and Objectives
Scottish Government Strategic Objectives:
Safer and stronger Greener Healthier Wealthier Smarter
Resilience Aim: “Scotland is as prepared as possible to deal with the
consequences of any national or local emergency…..”
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“We live in a brittle society”
“Next generation resilience relies on citizens and communities, not the institutions of the state”
Edwards (2009)
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Scotland – some background • Similar size, climate, population and
GDP per capita to the Republic of Ireland.
• Devolved government – with responsibility for managing the consequences of emergencies.
• 32 unitary local authorities (statutory responders).
• 1200 community councils.• 45,000 voluntary sector organisations,
supported by a 3rd Sector Interface in each LA area.
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Resilience in ScotlandUnderpinning principles:
•Worst-case scenarios are the benchmark•Public, private and voluntary sectors need to work together•Horizon scanning•Long-term view necessary•Generic planning – for anything, not everything
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Grampian
Highlands & Islands
Central
Strathclyde
Lothian & Borders
Dumfries & Galloway
Fife
Tayside
Strategic Co-ordinating Groups
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What is community resilience? “Communities and individuals harnessing
resources and expertise to help themselves prepare for, respond to and recover from
emergencies, in a way that complements the work of the emergency responders”
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What do we mean by Community?
• Geographical communities• Communities of:o Circumstanceo Interesto Practitioners
• Geographic most relevant - but potential to work with voluntary groups, business sector and wider “networks”
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AwarenessAwareness AssetsAssets
ActivismActivism
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How concerned are the public?
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How prepared do the public feel?
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Who’s responsible for being prepared for emergencies?
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What do people want more information on?
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What Can Government
Do?• Improve understanding of
risk• Increase awareness of
importance to act• Facilitate liaison &
development• Support new ideas &
approaches – pilots• Provide Guidance, advice
& support“Myth busting”• All to encourage behaviour
change • Work under way in all
these areas
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Ready for Winter? campaign and Ready Scotland web portal.
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Encouraging integration of the voluntary sector with
responders. • Resilience Advisory Board (Voluntary
Sector) group – bringing together responders and the voluntary sector
• Twice yearly meetings – discussions at the heart of policy
• Summer seminar – updates, sharing good practice and joint exercising.
• Voluntary Emergency Responders Guide• Local good practice – Central SCG
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Integrating resilience into the schools curriculum
• Developing a “Ready for emergencies” resource for teachers which allows them to teach resilience as part of the curriculum.
• With Borders council, developing a tool to raise awareness of resilience in schools to promote community development.
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Guide to emergency planning for community groups
• A step by step guide to making a community emergency plan for community groups
• Where to go for help and advice
• Published on Ready Scotland
• Templates – not branded,can be used or adapted.
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Myth busting: Will I be sued if I help someone and something
goes wrong?
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Conclusion• SG is working with partners to provide a strategic direction, and some tools,
to help build community resilience.
• We’ve developed guidance and tools, helped develop and highlighted some good practice and helped people share their experiences.
• Work in progress where next? – Rolling out the use of tools and guidance across the country – Can the private sector contribute more? – Working with poorer urban communities – Communicating about risk in plain English
– Good practice examples and advice are available at:
ReadyScotland.org.uk
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Thanks.
Any questions?