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Review Recommendation
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Cabinet
Response
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R1
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Identify suitable
ways to use appropriate performance information to enable the authority
to demonstrate what it is achieving in terms of risk mitigation.
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Agreed: DCS
and CEPO to action
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R2
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Require that
future Emergency Planning risk assessments clearly evidence the
changes that have been made as a result of the regular review process
they undergo.
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Agreed: CEPO
to action
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R3
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Investigate
the need to extend its funding for the Business Continuity Manager
post beyond March 2007.
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Agreed: DCS
to report in context of 2007/08 budget
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R4
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Place emergency
planning responsibilities on personnel records and ensure when officers
with such responsibilities leave the employ of the Council it is
highlighted to both EPU and a relevant contact in the Directorate.
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Not agreed:
the roles are predominantly voluntary and therefore do not form
part of the individual’s responsibilities. The bureaucracy of adding
the information to the records of employees would not add any value
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R5
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Improve the
audit trail for changes to plans and activities arising from post
incident debrief and exercise review.
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Agreed: CEPO
to action
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R6
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Conduct at
least one in every four FASTBALL exercises outside of office hours.
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Agreed: CEPO
to action
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R7
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Look at the
feasibility of using fire officers’ visits to schools to broaden
out the fire safety messages they given by incorporating an element
of emergency planning education.
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Agreed: DCS
and CEPO to action
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R8
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Create a virtual
library of exercise evaluation reports and post incident debriefs
to improve the sharing of lessons learnt, and to improve the audit
trail.
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Agreed: CEPO
to action
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R9
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Continue to
request GOSE to provide greater clarity as to the added value it
expects to provide to local authority emergency planning arrangements
and how it plans to demonstrate value for money.
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Agreed: DCS
to action
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R10
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Bring the EPU
into County Hall, as soon as possible, to raise the profile of the
service and ensure it is fully integrated with mainstream Council
working.
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Not agreed,
due to operational constraints: the EPU would be placed into the
hot zone if the incident occurred in Oxford. DCS is however asked
to examine the benefits and disadvantages of locating the EPU at
the Fire & Rescue Headquarters site subject to the constraints
of available capital funding.
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