Together when it counts
Manchester Arena, recovery and humanitarian assistance.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Crisis and Emergency Leadership
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
This module examines what the Manchester Arena Inquiry found about the emergency response to the attack of 22 May 2017, in which 22 people were killed. It covers Volume 2's finding of a nearly complete foundering of JESIP, the uncommunicated Operation Plato declaration, the Kerslake Report, why declaring is not the same as telling, and Martyn's Law, the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025. This module examines what recovery owes people, from the handover by the Strategic Co-ordinating Group to the long years that follow. It covers the four dimensions of recovery in UK guidance, humanitarian assistance with dignity drawn from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, communities as responders, and the Aberfan disaster of 1966, through to the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain the Manchester Arena Inquiry's central findings on joint working, including the foundering of JESIP and the uncommunicated Operation Plato declaration.
- Distinguish a plan that one service knows from a genuinely joint plan, and judge which of your own plans rely on partners.
- Outline what Martyn's Law requires, and plan joint training and exercising that shapes the first minutes of a response.
- Describe how the strategic lead passes from response to recovery, and the four dimensions of recovery in UK guidance.
- Apply the principles of dignified humanitarian assistance and community partnership to people affected by an emergency.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 14Manchester Arena and the Interoperability GapThis module examines what the Manchester Arena Inquiry found about the emergency response to the attack of 22 May 2017, in which 22 people were killed. It covers Volume 2's finding of a nearly complete foundering of JESIP, the uncommunicated Operation Plato declaration, the Kerslake Report, why declaring is not the same as telling, and Martyn's Law, the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025.37 min
- 15Recovery, Humanitarian Assistance and CommunitiesThis module examines what recovery owes people, from the handover by the Strategic Co-ordinating Group to the long years that follow. It covers the four dimensions of recovery in UK guidance, humanitarian assistance with dignity drawn from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, communities as responders, and the Aberfan disaster of 1966, through to the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Act 2025.39 min
Keep going.
Part of the Crisis and Emergency Leadership topic, also sold whole as Steady in the storm.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, What the inquiries found, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, After the storm, 5 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, Steady in the storm, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Other Bitesize in the Crisis and Emergency Leadership topic
- Ready before it hitsCrisis foundations and the Civil Contingencies Act2 hours£39
- Keeping the lights onBusiness continuity and emergency exercising1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Who is in charge?Command, control and JESIP multi-agency working1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Clear heads, clear wordsDecision making and communication in a crisis1 hour 15 minutes£39
- People first, then the inquiryLeading people in crisis and Covid-19 preparedness1 hour 15 minutes£39
- When warnings go unheardCovid-19 decisions and the Grenfell response1 hour 15 minutes£39