Issue - meetings

To Announce any Urgent Business Agreed by the Chair

Meeting: 02/07/2020 - Cabinet (Item 15)

RULE 16 Covid19 Local Outbreak Management Plan (LOMP) - Urgent Business Agreed by the Chair

The Cabinet is asked to:

2.1  Accept the Covid-19 Local Outbreak Management Plan as a suitable framework plan on which to base further planning of the local response to this pandemic.

2.2  Commit the Council to providing local leadership during this period of crisis, working with communities and other stakeholders in order to protect the health, wellbeing and prosperity of people in Bath and North East Somerset.

2.3  Commit to the provision of adequate material support for the implementation of this plan, while also taking into account other Council needs and pressures.  (This is a commitment in principle: the framework plan does not detail any specific requests, but these will follow and be subject to separate decision making processes).

 

This decision is to be made under Part 4B Rule 16 of the Council’s Constitution as an urgent decision. This matter is urgent because of the expectation that the Council would need to have an agreed plan in place for the beginning of July 2020 in light of the Covid19 pandemic.

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Minutes:

The Chair informed the meeting that she has agreed to bring Covid-19 Local Outbreak Management Plan under urgent business agreed by the Chair.

This decision would be made under Part 4B Rule 16 of the Council’s Constitution as an urgent decision. This matter was urgent because of the expectation that the Council would need to have an agreed plan in place for the beginning of July 2020 in light of the Covid19 pandemic.

 

The report has received an endorsement from the Health and Wellbeing Board on 23rd June.

 

Councillor Rob Appleyard said that the COVID situation has always been fast moving and clarity on what was required from all of us was not always been as we would have liked it. The Council were tasked by the government to have a Local Outbreak Management Plan (LOMP). The Director of Public Health, Dr. Bruce Laurence, and his team have been working very hard over the last few weeks to bring this quite comprehensive document together, which should give an indication of actions needed. This document was not just about the Council; it's about working with partners such as the CCG, hospitals, Virgin Care and a range of other partners.

 

Councillor Rob Appleyard moved the recommendations.

 

The Chair seconded the motion by saying a particular thank you to Dr Bruce Laurence, and also to officers who have managed to put this plan together in record time, in order to meet the demand of government to have this plan published by the beginning of July. The Chair thanked to all those who have been part of the pandemic stakeholders’ group (group that will form the basis for the local outbreak engagement board) and for their continued commitment to working together. The Chair also thanked all those that have worked above and beyond to help and support others and provide services during this crisis, such as staff and a wide range of volunteers and many others, including those who think they have just helped their neighbours.

 

 

RESOLVED (unanimously) that the Cabinet agreed to:

 

2.1  Accept the Covid-19 Local Outbreak Management Plan as a suitable framework plan on which to base further planning of the local response to this pandemic.

2.2  Commit the Council to providing local leadership during this period of crisis, working with communities and other stakeholders in order to protect the health, wellbeing and prosperity of people in Bath and North East Somerset.

2.3  Commit to the provision of adequate material support for the implementation of this plan, while also taking into account other Council needs and pressures.  (This is a commitment in principle: the framework plan does not detail any specific requests, but these will follow and be subject to separate decision making processes).

 

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