Community Resilience in Falkirk - learn more about becoming more resilient!
The Flooding and Resilience teams are planning a flooding workshop to assist communities and individuals to plan for severe weather incidents. Please complete the survey below to have your say about what you would like to see at the workshop.
Incidents and emergencies can happen, either without warning like a house fire or due to an identified risk, for example severe weather. Irrespective of the cause, the consequences of an incident can negatively affect those involved emotionally and physically. In some cases people can be displaced from their family home whilst damage is fixed.
We can not fully mitigate to prevent incidents but we can prepare for them to reduce the stress involved. You can become more resilient as an individual, as a family unit and as a community. Individuals and communities who prepare for risks and how to respond when disruption occurs cope better and support themselves and others more during emergencies.
Are You Winter Ready? The Met office release their Winter Campaign in mid October. We will be uploading a link to the campaign here - until then check out the links below
DID YOU KNOW THAT FALKIRK COUNCIL IS A CATEGORY 1 RESPONDER?
Category 1 responders are organisations at the core of the response to most emergencies. As a category 1 responder we are subject to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 to assess risk and plan for emergencies. We risk assess for Falkirk using the community risk register. Find out more about both below.
An emergency is an event, situation or incident which threatens serious damage to human welfare in a place in the UK, the environment of a place in the UK, or the security of the UK or of a place in the UK.
A major incident is an event or situation with a range of serious consequences which requires special arrangements to be implemented by one or more emergency agency or Category 1 responder.
If there is an major incident occurring in your area, Falkirk Council will post a news page with information. This news page will appear as a link at the top of our normal Falkirk Council website.
In addition information about a major incident can be usually found on Falkirk Councils Twitter page.
Know about road disruptions at the Falkirk Council Roads Twitter page
Falkirk Resilience team are working in collaboration with the Scottish Community Development Centre - find out more about why community resilience is so amazing.
The Falkirk Council Resilience unit can work with you to identify how to become more resilient. We can come talk to any group, identify risks and assets individual to your community and support you to write bespoke emergency response and recovery plans.
The process is simple and an example of how we would engage is showed in the box opposite. If you want we can support you to become a community resilience group by providing training and exercising of plans.
We run regular community learning days and sometime even visit other community resilience groups.
Our aim within the resilience unit is to work with communities to map local risks and assets and produce bespoke community resilience plans, provide training and exercise plans. Develop the emergency hub model to ensure individuals and communities know where to go to during an incident.
If you are interested in the above please contact us at resilience@falkirk.gov.uk
Below are a few videos providing examples of community resilience and how you can prepared for emergencies.
Ready Scotland is a website dedicated to supporting individuals and communities become more resilient. It is full of tips and templates.
The Scottish Community Development Center is a charity supporting communities. They run various shared learning days and can provide training.
Some other really useful websites
Training available for volunteer responders
Below are some other useful documents which you might find interesting.
Phases
Community Engagement and Feedback Phase
WHY? We want to hear from you about whether any of the current engagement processes are working. This will allow us to collect a general awareness and understanding of the community groups/councils already in operation. We would like to hear about what you would like to know more about and if you would be interested any training.
WHAT ARE WE ASKING? We would like to develop community resilience groups within Falkirk and any feedback you have will ensure that we are developing these groups in a manner which best supports your area and community. By doing so we can support your area to respond to incidents in a safe and coordinated manner.
WHAT NEXT? We will link you with free training programs and invite you to multi-agency exercises (tests for plans) where you can engage with other Category 1,2 and 3 responders. We can also apply for funding for support needs that your community have identified or link your group directly with funding opportunities.
Upcoming and ongoing events
Past events
Event date: December 13th, 2024 from 09:45 to 12:00.
Foundry - Falkirk Council
1 registrant
Event date: October 4th, 2024 from 08:45 to 11:00.
Foundry - Falkirk Council
Event date: July 26th, 2024 from 08:45 to 11:00.
Foundry - Falkirk Council
2 registrants
Event date: May 17th, 2024 from 08:45 to 09:30.
Foundry - Falkirk Council
Event date: March 8th, 2024 from 09:45 to 12:00.
Foundry - Falkirk Council
Event date: February 28th, 2024 from 09:00 to 16:00.
Dalgrain Industrial Estate
Event date: November 3rd, 2023 from 09:30 to 11:00.
Foundry - Falkirk Council
Event date: August 29th, 2023 at 14:12 to September 29th, 2023 at 10:12.
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