Your own community resilience arrangements could help your community coordinate local volunteers and resources in response to an emergency.
Your own arrangements can help minimise damage and disruption to your community, as well as complementing the work the emergency responders do.
The first step is to speak to people in your community. It is important to do this as any arrangements you develop will require a core team of people to:
What type of emergencies has your community experienced before? Have a look at Fife’s Community Risk Register for information about the risks to your community, and how these could impact your community.
Consider what skills, knowledge, and resources exist locally that your community could make use of during an emergency.
How can these resources be coordinated within your community to help your community work together?
You should consider the best format for recording your community’s agreed arrangements. Whichever format you choose, the aim of community emergency resilience arrangements is to help your community prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies in a way that complements the work of emergency responders.
Examples of the types of formats of arrangements your community could develop:
Community Emergency Plan
Community-Led Place of Safety Arrangements
List of key contacts and/or resources
Here are few examples:
Community emergency resilience arrangements are owned and activated by your community. On becoming aware of an incident affecting your community, your community lead will decide whether to activate your community emergency resilience arrangements. This will depend on the impacts on your community.
If your community’s arrangements are activated, your community lead should:
If your community’s arrangements are not activated, your community leads should agree how to monitor the situation.
We can offer your community advice and support throughout the process of developing community emergency resilience arrangements. Any arrangements your community puts in place to prepare for emergencies are owned by your community.
We will also provide a link between the community and other emergency response agencies.
For information relating to insurance cover for community emergency resilience activities led by a Community Council/sub-group, please visit our Public Liability Insurance page.