Deputy Chief Fire Officer Dave Walton shares how his Local Resilience Forum works and gets into the detail about preparations for a national pandemic exercise due to take place this year.
As part of the government’s response to the first part of the Covid-19 inquiry report, the Resilience Minister told the House of Commons last week that a national pandemic response exercise will take place later in the year, preceded by the launch of the UK Resilience Academy in April.
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