Issue - meetings

Cllr. Elizabeth Campbell - Leader of the Council (Chair) introduced the report, setting out the background to the proposed decision.

The Leadership Team discussed the report. They commented on several points such as, the Council’s continuing work to bolstering its resilience preparedness arrangements; the Council’s self-assessment in relation to the Resilience Standards for London; and the Council’s increased capacity to respond to incidents by training, equipping, and empowering more officers for emergency roles.

The Leadership Team RESOLVED, for the reasons set out in paragraph 3.1 and elsewhere within the report, that the recommendations at paragraphs 2.1 and 2.3 be adopted.

The Leadership Team:

a)         Approved the Annual Resilience Report for 2023. 

b)         Agreed the current position statement for each resilience standard in the Resilience Standards for London (Appendix 2).

c)          Noted the areas that have already improved (see sections 5, 6 and 7 of the report) following learning from Module 4 of the Grenfell Public Inquiry and those areas which continue to develop in line with the Council’s continuous improvement programme, such as Resilience training and exercising for all emergency roles, strengthening of the emergency rota and on-call cover and greater community resilience.

Action by: Executive Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods