Water Safety
North Lanarkshire Council · 28 November 2022
Back to Community Safety Partnership Forum — 28 November 2022 and its agenda
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North Lanarkshire Council Report Community Safety Partnership Does this report require to be approved? ☐ Yes ☒ No Ref SP/MC Date 28/11/22 Water Safety Report From Stephen Penman, Head of Strategic Communication E-mail costellom@northlan.gov.uk Telephone 07725289551 1. Background 1.1 PAWS is a multi-agency approach to improving water safety that encompasses the knowledge and experience of individuals and organisations in our communities that best understand, and can manage, risks in and around water in the area It is a Partnership of equals sharing the responsibility for identifying and addressing water safety risks in the area. PAWS looks at three aspects of water safety: Prevention Executive Summary Board to understand the work ongoing in relation to the preparation of a Partnership Approach to Water Safety (PAWS) document for North Lanarkshire and agree that a finalised document will be presented at a future meeting. Recommendations It is recommended that the Community Safety Committee: Recognise the partnership work undertaken to date and agree to participate in further consultation and the work on the document progresses.. The Plan for North Lanarkshire Priority Improve the health and wellbeing of our communities Ambition statement (17) Ensure we keep our environment clean, safe, and attractive
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Pro-active activities that reduce the likelihood of a water emergency occurring by raising awareness of safety issues, and by educating the public on how to be safe in and around water in our communities Improved Response Effective response to water emergency incidents through multi-agency exercises and training the public how to react to incidents safely. Review Implementation of the Drowning & Incident Review (DIR) after significant incidents to ensure learning from water emergency incidents to gain an understanding of the contributory factors and make interventions that may prevent similar events from occurring. Water safety is a complicated subject that will require the input and co-operation of many organisations and individuals to address. PAWS provides a clear framework to assist in this area of partnership working. 2. Report Lanarkshire PAWS Group 2.1 A Lanarkshire PAWS Group has been set up and has to date had 2 meetings. Members of the group include:- Local Authority Scottish Fire and Rescue Police Scotland Water Safety Scotland Scottish canals 2.2 A draft document has been created in line with best practice and this document, on completion of the draft, will be shared more widely as part of local consultation. The document has been shared with council colleagues, Police Scotland and SFRS to date and wider partners will be consulted in due course. 2.3 The PAWS Group aims to build upon existing good practices currently undertaken by partner agencies across NL and to allocate responsibilities in a clear framework agreeable to all agencies concerned and formalise them into agreed actions that are reported into the Community Planning Partnership. This co-ordinated and proactive approach will assist in the delivery of emergency response to, and education in the prevention of, water emergency incidents and is consistent with the targets of Scotland’s Drowning Prevention Strategy 2.4 A pan Lanarkshire approach has been considered best practice and this has been the approach taken initially to the development of the PAWS and colleagues from South Lanarkshire have engaged initially in the project and further work will be undertaken in relation to progressing this approach, however, a NLC version of this document seems to most likely outcome.
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3. Measures of success 3.1 Creation of a Partnership Approach to Water Safety document and a representative group to promote this are of work following consultation with all partners as required 4. Supporting documentation 4.1 N/A Stephen Penman Head of Strategic Communication
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5. Impacts ( http://connect/report-template-guidance ) 5.1 Public Sector Equality Duty and Fairer Scotland Duty Does the report contain information that has an impact as a result of the Public Sector Equality Duty and/or Fairer Scotland Duty? Yes ☐ No ☒ If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? If Yes, has an assessment been carried out and published on the council’s website? https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/your-community/equalities/equality-and-fairer- scotland-duty-impact-assessments Yes ☐ No ☐ 5.2 Financial impact Does the report contain any financial impacts? Yes ☐ No ☒ If Yes, have all relevant financial impacts have been discussed and agreed with Financial Solutions? Yes ☐ No ☐ If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? 5.3 HR policy impact Does the report contain any HR policy or procedure impacts? Yes ☐ No ☒ If Yes, have all relevant HR impacts have been discussed and agreed with People and Organisational Development? Yes ☐ No ☐ If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? 5.4 Legal impact Does the report contain any legal impacts (such as general legal matters, statutory considerations (including employment law considerations), or new legislation)? Yes ☐ No ☒ If Yes, have all relevant legal impacts have been discussed and agreed with Legal and Democratic Solutions? Yes ☐ No ☐ If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? 5.5 Data protection impact Does the report / project / practice contain or involve the processing of personal data? Yes ☐ No ☒ If Yes, is the processing of this personal data likely to result in a high risk to the data subject? Yes ☐ No ☐ If Yes, has a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) been carried out and e- mailed to dataprotection@northlan.gov.uk Yes ☐ No ☐ 5.6 Technology / Digital impact Does the report contain information that has an impact on either technology, digital transformation, service redesign / business change processes, data management, or connectivity / broadband / Wi-Fi? Yes ☐ No ☒ If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact?
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Where the impact identifies a requirement for technology, has an assessment been carried out (or scheduled) by the Enterprise Architecture Governance Group (EAGG)? Yes ☐ No ☐ 5.7 Environmental / Carbon impact Does the report / project / practice contain information that has an impact on any environmental or carbon matters? Yes ☐ No ☒ If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? 5.8 Communications impact Does the report contain any information that has an impact on the council’s communications activities? Yes ☒ No ☐ If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the impact? Work has been ongoing with Corporate Communications throughout the development of the PAWS approach and will continue through the consultation and engagement process 5.9 Risk impact Is there a risk impact? Yes ☐ No ☒ If Yes, please provide a brief summary of the key risks and potential impacts, highlighting where the risk(s) are assessed and recorded (e.g. Corporate or Service or Project Risk Registers), and how they are managed?