Faith Community Roles: Putting our Capabilities and Roles in Theological Context Towards a Catholic

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Faith Community Roles Putting our Capabilities
and Roles in Theological ContextTowards a
Catholic Understanding

• Jim McManus,CPsychol, MFPH, MEPS
• Asst Director Public Health
• Barking Dagenham PCT

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Contact Details

• Jim McManus
• Assistant Director Health Improvement
• Barking Dagenham PCT
• Clock House
• East Street
• Barking IG11 8EY
• Jim.mcmanus_at_bdpct.nhs.uk
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]

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Summary

• Interpretation
• Starting Points for Agencies Community and
  their Care Needs
• Staring Point for Christians Community and
  Social Mission in Theological Context
• Not going to focus on The problem of Evil, thats
  for another day

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Starting Point 1 An Attempt

• Interpretation/Hermeneusis
• Historical engagement of christianity with social
  services
• Public Theology The Church
• Expediency and Capability - EPOs

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Starting Point 2 A Process

• Msgr Joseph Dore, Archbishop of Strasbourg
• La Responsibilite des Theologiens (Paris,
  Desclee, 2002)
• Go Ad Fontes
• Serve the Debate Church and World
• Articulate the Dimensions
• Scientific and Confessional
• Theology as a Practical Tactic

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Civil Contingencies Act 2004

• Risk Assessment - Conduct risk assessment, in
  conjunction with others, to assess the range of
  emergences faced and the risk of those
  emergencies making it necessary for the
  organisation to respond on the basis of its
  existing functions.
• Planning Arrangements - In light of the risk
  assessment, draw up and maintain plans
• To prevent the emergency occurring /Reduce,
  control and mitigate its effects /To refine plans
  in the light of ongoing risk assessment /For
  responding to and recovering from an emergency
  /To publish risk assessments and plans /To
  include the provision for exercise and training
  of staff
• Business Continuity PlanningPlans must be in
  place to enable the organisation to deliver those
  functions which may be required in an emergency.
• Warning and InformingMaintain arrangements for
  warning and informing the public if an emergency
  is likely to occur or has occurred and for
  providing them with advice.
• Sharing InformationProvide information to
  partner organisations so that they can complete
  risk assessments and plans.
• Co-operationCat 1 and 2 responders to co-operate
  with each other both within and beyond the
  context of multi agency groups.
• Promotion of Business Continuity Management
  (Local Authorities only)Provide advice and
  assistance to the public in relation to the
  continuance of commercial activity in the event
  of an emergency.

Slide courtesy of the Emergency Planning College
and Health Protection Agency
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Responder Categories

• Category 1
• Local AuthoritiesPoliceFire Rescue
  ServiceAmbulance ServicesNational Health
  Service Trustsincluding PCTs
• The Environment Agency

• Category 2
• Railway Operators Airport OperatorsHarbour
  AuthoritiesHighways AuthorityHealth Safety
  ExecutiveUtilitiesElectric GasWaterPhone
  (Voice Data)

The NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005,
prerogates Strategic Health Authorities with a
range of functions
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CCA Duties Business Continuity

• Category 1 responders to maintain plans to
  ensure that they can continue to perform their
  functions in the event of an emergency.. to be
  able to maintain their own crisis response
  capabilities and to continue to deliver critical
  aspects of their day-to-day functions.

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Schematic Framework CCA
Faiths get their house in order
Faiths can Assist CCA Responders
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CCA is not the whole story..

• Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations
  1999 (COMAH)
• Nuclear - Nuclear Emergency Planning Liaison
  Group (NEPLG) Consolidated Guidance
• Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public
  Information) Regulations (REPPIR) 2001
• NHS Emergency Planning Guidance 2005
• Exotic Animal Disease Generic Contingency Plan
• Food and Environment Protection Act 1985
• Food Safety Act 1990
• Railway Regulation Act 1840
• Official Secrets Act 1911
• Civil Aviation Act 1982
• Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

• Water Security and Emergency Measures Direction
  1998
• Fuel Energy Act 1976, Energy Act 2004 and the
• Downstream Oil Emergency Response Plan
• Power Electricity Supply Emergency Code and the
• Gas Supply Emergency Arrangements, Gas Act 1986
  and the Electricity Act 1989
• ransport Railways Act 1993, Airports Act 1986
• Communications BBC Agreement, 1996
• Communications Act 2003, Telecommunications Act
  1984,
• NHTCU, Central Sponsor for Information Assurance
  and Resilience
• Civil Contingencies Act 2004 schedule 2
  Obstruction
• Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006

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The NHS is differentagain!

• NHS Defines a major incident differently from the
  CCA, as required under the 2005 Guidance
• This may mean NHS triggers a major incident when
  others do not therefore Chaplains and Clergy
  may find themselves having to deal with this
• Example Heatwave Major Incidents at two levels
  for some NHS agencies one level where NHS
  itself may declare, another level where an MI
  must be declared

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The Cycle of Emergency Planning
Faith Forum participate in exercises
appropriately, but also conduct their own
exercises with their own co-ordinator
Ensure training is provided to the Faith
Communities and that they cascade training down.
Provide specific training on their roles and
engage them in exercises
Ensure regular review by Faith Communities and by
Emergency Planning Group/LRF as appropriate.
Ensure contacts are up to date.
Get Faith Communities to disseminate the plan and
their own plan if they have one. Ensure
statutory agencies are clear on Faith
Communities roles
Faith Communities can help assess risks to their
communities and population as a whole. Discuss
plans for fatalities at this stage. Decide if
they need their own Plan or a section within the
main plan.
Ensure faith communities buy into the plan and
their roles. Ensure Faith Forum or LSP sign off
Detail faith community roles and
responsibilities, methods of engagement and call
out. Develop Faith community plan. Do they need
their own co-ordinator (some areas have this as
an unpaid role. Others make a contribution to
costs.)
Use the table of capabilities to help set
objectives for what Faith Communities can do.
Conduct a scoping exercise with them where they
review their own capabilities with someone to
facilitate
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Proposition 1

• Christian Churches in the UK have historically
  been present in most major disasters and long
  term crises/challenges
• Employment and poverty, Wars, The 1918 pandemic
• There has been no single faith monopoly despite
  the interests of some denominations to claim so
• Nor is there any basis in law for the priority of
  any denomination the ethos is of service not
  locus
• There is a clear role for faith communities
• The job is bigger than any single faith group can
  deliver
• Catholics and Jews punched above their weight
• The Church has significant history of Ministry in
  Disasters and Crises (Plague, War,Famine)

Frank Prochaska (2006) Christianity and Social
Service in Modern Britain. Oxford University
Press
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Back to Starting Point

• Historical engagement of christianity with social
  services
• Brings new challenges
• Interpretation/Hermeneusis of the legislation to
  the Church
• Interpretation of the Church to EPOs

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Proposition 2

• There is a preliminary to the Act of
  Interpretation
• We need to have a clear self-understanding as a
  Church of what we want to Interpret
• That self understanding is primarily theological
  or it is inadequate
• Capability and functions follow our understanding
  of mission (Gaudium et Spes)

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Proposition 3

• Non Catholic Christians may be puzzled with
  extensive use of Magisterial documents rather
  than Scripture
• But starting with the Magisterium is starting
  with a Scriptural perspective, because the
  teachings of the Church are steeped in Scripture
• From there we can see how other theologies have
  understood this

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Where to start theologically?

• Start from the the Human Condition (Theological
  Anthropology)
• Then work on how this sits with the Churchs
  Understanding of Itself (Ecclesiology)
• Move outwards to Social Mission and Doctrine
  (Social Theology)
• Creating and Sustaining Capability Pastoral,
  Sacramental, Social, Moral Theology
• Doctrine of God Implicit and Central Throughout
• This perspective is both Christological and
  Pneumatological even if my Doctrine of the
  Godhead needs developing

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The Cycle of a Theology of Major Incidents
Action Mode 1 Catechesis
Self Understanding Ekklesia
Immanent Trinity
Doctrine of God Doctrine of Holy Spirit
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The Cycle of a Theology of Major Incidents
Action Mode 1 Catechesis
Ecclesiology, Anthropology
Self Understanding Ekklesia
Immanent Trinity
Doctrine of God Doctrine of Holy Spirit
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Humanity

• Human being both corporeal and spiritual
  (CCC,362)
• Trinitarian Love the origin and goal of the
  human person (Compendium, 34ff) Social Nature of
  this
• Inalienable Dignity (CCC,357)
• Social Nature (Compendium, 37)
• Duties of Justice arise from social nature
  (Compendium, 61, 77,92)
• Human need must be addressed (Solicitudo Rei
  Socialis 34, Populorum Progressio 48) for Genuine
  Peace (Pacem in Terris 9, 11)
• The Common Good (Gaudium et Spes,26)
• Human Ecology (a social dimension) (Centesimus
  Annus, 38)
• The State and Church as both important in the
  Common Good and the social body (Compendium,
  424ff)
• Fragility and Vulnerability (Dolentium Hominum)

The duties arising from the Commandment to
Love our Neighbour
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Gaudium et Spes

• If
• the common good is..
• the sum total of social conditions which allow
  people either as groups or individuals, to reach
  their fulfillment more fully and easily. Every
  social group must take account of the needs and
  legitimate aspirations of other groups, and even
  of the general welfare of the entire human family
  (Gaudium et Spes, 26)
• Then
• Emergency Planning and Emergency Response is a
  clear constituent of what makes up the Common
  Good
• And
• the Church has an interest per se, because it
  touches on the personalist principle at the
  centre of its social teaching

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Gaudium et Spes

• If
• the common good is..
• the sum total of social conditions which allow
  people either as groups or individuals, to reach
  their fulfillment more fully and easily. Every
  social group must take account of the needs and
  legitimate aspirations of other groups, and even
  of the general welfare of the entire human family
  (Gaudium et Spes, 26)
• Then
• Emergency Planning and Emergency Response is a
  clear constituent of what makes up the Common
  Good
• And
• the Church has an interest per se, because it
  touches on the personalist principle at the
  centre of its social teaching

• And all this sits well beside the position of Law
  and Guidance on how public authorities should
  co-operate with communities
• Office of 3rd Sector
• Local Govt Acts 1999,2000,2002,
• Local Govt and Involvement in Health Bill
• Sustainable Communities
• Civil Contingencies Act 2004
• THE COMMON GOOD AS DEFINED BY GAUDIUM ET SPES
  BECOMES A CLEAR MANIFESTO FOR THE CHURCH TO
  RESPOND TO ITS RESPONSIBILITIES

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Ecclesiology picks up on Anthropology

• One complex reality which comes together from
  both a human and a divine element (LG, 8)
  (mirrors anthropology in CCC 362)
• The Church, Mystery of our union with God
  (CCC,772)
• Christ the source of Mission/Ministry in the
  Church (CCC,874)
• Christ gave it mission, orientation and goal
• The Church stands with every man and woman of
  every place and time (Compendium, 60)
• Solidarity (Solicitudo Rei Socialis, 38)
• The Church is a sign and instrument of communion
  with God and unity among humans (LG,1)
• Churchs charitable activity as a manifestation
  of Trinitarian Love (Deus Caritas Est 19ff)
• A minister to human vulnerability and a witness
  to human wholeness (Fragilita e Salute, Benedict
  XVI Nov 2006)

The church in love of God and love of Neighbour
has a Particular calling to witness and action in
the social realm
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The Cycle of a Theology of Major Incidents
Action Mode 1 Catechesis
Ecclesiology, Anthropology
Self Understanding Ekklesia
Call to Witness Kerygma
Economic Trinity
Immanent Trinity
Doctrine of Salvation
Doctrine of God Doctrine of Holy Spirit
KEY POINT Our motive in witnessing is love and
the wellbeing of the person, arising from our
understanding of who we as humans and who we as
Church are Our Call to Witness is essentially
linked to Trinitarian Love, and to the origin
and goal of humankind
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The Cycle of a Theology of Major Incidents
Action Mode 1 Catechesis
Ecclesiology, Anthropology
Call to Witness Kerygma
Self Understanding Ekklesia
Economic Trinity
Immanent Trinity
Doctrine of Salvation
Doctrine of God Doctrine of Holy Spirit
Action Modes 2 Building Capability within a
framework
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Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework
The Church Together

• Love faces a vast field of work and the Church
  is eager to make her contribution with her social
  doctrine, which concerns the whole person and is
  addressed to all people Compendium, 5
• All Christs faithful must be conscious of the
  responsibility To play their part (Canon 781)
• The Bishop, uniting and moulding local church -
  being ready for every good work (2 Tim 221) as
  focus of unity in the local Church. Christus
  Dominus 11,16

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Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework
Collaboration with Legitimate Authorities

• The Church and the political community can more
  effectively render this service for the good of
  all if each works better for wholesome mutual
  co-operation in a way suitable to the
  circumstances of time and place GS,76
• Compendium,425
• the spontaneity of individuals must be combined
  with planning, foresight and co-operation with
  other similar institutions
• Deus Caritas Est,31

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Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework
Formation

• Concern throughout Magisterial Documents that
  people are not given to apostolates for which
  they are neither formed nor suited
• There is a duty for them to seek formation, and
  for Church to provide it
• Lay People Canon 2311. Apostolicam
  Actuositatem 2,28,29
• Priests Presbyterium Ordinis 19 (Formation and
  study for pastoral activity. Duty of Bishop to
  provide it) (today!)
• Bishops Christus Dominus
• Co-operation with clergy and religious
  28ffCo-operation with each other
• Religious Religious and Human Advancement 5ff,
  (role) 32ff (formation)

Collaboration between the various strands
of Christs faithful are written throughout the
documents of Vatican II, post conciliar documents
and the CIC
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Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework
Distinctive Qualities of Formation

• We are dealing with human beings, and human
  beings always need something more than
  technically proper care. They need humanity...
• Consequently, in addition go their necessary
  professional training, these Ccharity workers
  need a formation of the heart .as a result, love
  of neighbour will be a consequence deriving
  from their faith, a faith which becomes active
  through love Gal 56 (Deus Caritas Est, 31)

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Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework
The Proper Role of Expertise

• In accord with the knowledge, competence and
  pre-eminence which they possess, lay people have
  the right and even at times a duty to manifest to
  the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which
  pertain to the good of the Church, and they have
  a right to make their opinion known to the other
  Christian faithful.with consideration for the
  common good and the dignity of persons
• Codex Iuris Canonici, 212 3

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Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework
Respect for Religious Freedom

• Respect for religious freedom of others
• The dignity of the person and the very nature of
  the quest for God require that all should be free
  from every constraint in the area of religion
  (Dignitatis Humanae,2)
• a religious community might be given a special
  recognition on the part of the State.Such
  recognition must in no way create discrimination
  within the civil or social order for other
  religious groups (DH,6)

Christian or non-Christian collaboration with
State in Emergency Planning does not mean
pre-eminence and must not allow that faith body
to interfere with the religious freedom of anyone
else
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Benedict XVI on Proselytism

• Charity, furthermore, cannot be used as a means
  of engaging in what is nowadays considered
  proselytism. Love is free it is not practised as
  a way of achieving other ends. (Deus Caritas Est
  31)
• He relates this to the Directory for Pastoral
  Ministry of Bishops, 2004

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Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework
Distinctive Qualities

• Eucharistic Community (Sacramentum Caritatis,84
  90)
• The Eucharist drives our understanding
• And drives our way out into mission

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The Cycle of a Theology of Major Incidents
Action Mode 1 Catechesis
Ecclesiology, Anthropology
Call to Witness Kerygma
Self Understanding Ekklesia
Economic Trinity
Immanent Trinity
Eucharistic Community, Formation
Doctrine of Salvation
Doctrine of God Doctrine of Holy Spirit
Action Modes 2 Building Capability
Presence, Response Kenosis,
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The Cycle of a Theology of Major Incidents
Action Mode 1 Catechesis
Ecclesiology, Anthropology
Call to Witness Kerygma
Self Understanding Ekklesia
Economic Trinity
Immanent Trinity
Eucharistic Community, Formation
Doctrine of Salvation
Doctrine of God Doctrine of Holy Spirit
Action Modes 2 Building Capability
Presence, Response Kenosis,
Involvement in EP must be understood
theologically for the Church, for Integrity, and
for Public Safety (so we dont do this for the
WRONG reasons.) (Analagous to Child Protection
must be understood and lived theologically)
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The Cycle of a Theology of Major Incidents
Action Mode 1 Catechesis
Ecclesiology, Anthropology
Call to Witness Kerygma
Self Understanding Ekklesia
Economic Trinity
Immanent Trinity
Sanctification Sacraments Pastoral Care
Eucharistic Community, Formation
Doctrine of Salvation
Doctrine of God Doctrine of Holy Spirit
Action Modes 2 Building Capability
Action Modes 3 Inclusion, Community, Ongoing Care
and Self Care
Presence, Response Kenosis,
Involvement in EP must be understood
theologically for the Church, for Integrity, and
for Public Safety (so we dont do this for the
WRONG reasons.) (Analagous to Child Protection
must be understood and lived theologically)
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Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework
Grounded in Life of Prayer

• Proper Foundation needed for doing this
• Sits well with psychology on Christian Ministry
• It is time to reaffirm the importance of prayer
  in the face of activism and the growing
  secularism of many Christians engaged in
  Charitable work.Clearly, the Christian who prays
  does not claim to be able to change Gods plans
  or correct what he has foreseen. Rather, he seeks
  an encounter with the Father of Jesus Christ,
  asking God to be present with the consolation of
  the Spirit to him and his work. (DCE,37)

Here Benedict puts both Charity and the evils
we Confront in Trinitarian context
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Ministry and Collaboration within a Framework
Back to Sanctification and Pastoral Care

• Fragilita E Salute
• Celebration of the Sacraments
• Hearing the Word
• The Testimony of Charity
• Pastoral Care
• Meeting Needs physical, emotional,spiritual
• Ongoing Support
• Context of Hope

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Some recent theological trends the church as
strong community

• Vogt (Theological Studies,2007) Solidarity and
  Hospitality in the Churchs social mission
• Merkle (From the Heart of the Church) Church
  unable to carry out its mission without first
  becoming a strong community
• Interplay of Equality, Respect, Dignity
• Ide distinctiveness of agape in DCE (nouvelle
  revue theologique, 2006)
• Borras Un Caractere diaconal? (nouvelle revue
  theologique, 2007)
• Die Bedeutung der Pastoralkonstitution Gaudium et
  Spes fur die Pastoral heute (Bulletin ET, 2005)

• Question does this mean that the interplay of 1
  and the
• practice of 3 are in some way constitutive of
  the
• Churchs role in Response to an MI

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Some recent theological trends Social Doctrine
in recent Spanish Theology

• Ildefonso Camacho 1991 doctrina social de la
  Iglesia
• A Historical Approach
• A constant focus on human need
• Vatican II new focus on modern human life
• Church should be present in all need
• Eugenio Alburquerque (2006) Moral social
  cristiana
• Discipleship of Liberation and Justice
• Charity, Justice, Truth, Peace, Personhood
• Francisco Alarcos (2005) Bioetica global,
  Justicia y Teologia Moral
• Globalisation brings risk and challenges
• Re-emphasis of the Churchs teaching and presence
  in the midst of globalisation is vital
• Solidarity
• Inter and multi-cultural challenges

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Some recent theological trends the Church in
public Life

• The rise of Public Theology
• The re-affirmation of Theologys role in a world
  of Social Sciences and Specialiisation
  (Theological Studies 2005, Concilium 2006/2)
• Doing God A Future for Faith in the Public
  Square (Theos)
• Duncan Forrester Christian Justice and Public
  Policy (1999)
• Rowan Williams in Brierley (2006) Public Life and
  the Place of the Church (reflections to honour
  the Bishop of Oxford)

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Some recent theological trends Summary

• A move towards seeing global, not just local
  issues
• A move towards re-asserting links social and
  individual responsibilities and duties, not just
  rights
• A move to re-assert the Church has a duty and a
  right to engage in the public square
• Some key foundations virtues as common language
• In a world challenged by terrorism and changing
  climate, these virtues are a language for faiths
  and civil authorities to collaborate

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Taking this forward Proposition 4

• The Church as Strong Community needs some clear
  structures to enact its role in EP
• It also needs clear formation, regulation and
  systems which work
• These things are the living out of Charity as
  called for in Deus Caritas Est and discussed in
  recent theology
• They sit well with the cycle of emergency
  planning Plan, Train, Exercise, Collaborate

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The Churchs Understanding of the Cycle of
Emergency Planning
Faith Forum participate in exercises
appropriately, but also conduct their own
exercises with their own co-ordinator
Ensure training is provided to the Faith
Communities and that they cascade training down.
Provide specific training on their roles and
engage them in exercises
Ensure regular review by Faith Communities and by
Emergency Planning Group/LRF as appropriate.
Ensure contacts are up to date.
Get Faith Communities to disseminate the plan and
their own plan if they have one. Ensure
statutory agencies are clear on Faith
Communities roles
Faith Communities can help assess risks to their
communities and population as a whole. Discuss
plans for fatalities at this stage. Decide if
they need their own Plan or a section within the
main plan.
Ensure faith communities buy into the plan and
their roles. Ensure Faith Forum or LSP sign off
Detail faith community roles and
responsibilities, methods of engagement and call
out. Develop Faith community plan. Do they need
their own co-ordinator (some areas have this as
an unpaid role. Others make a contribution to
costs.)
Use the table of capabilities to help set
objectives for what Faith Communities can do.
Conduct a scoping exercise with them where they
review their own capabilities with someone to
facilitate
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Conclusion

• We have examined the theological rationale for
  getting engaged
• There is a natural fit, from first principles,
  between a distinctive Catholic understanding of
  Social Justice and the Common Good, and Emergency
  Planning
• Witness, Presence and Response Over to you!

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Contact Details

• Jim McManus
• Assistant Director Health Improvement
• Barking Dagenham PCT
• Clock House
• East Street
• Barking IG11 8EY
• Jim.mcmanus_at_bdpct.nhs.uk
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]