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7 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Disasters are inherently political. They are the culmination of multiple political failings. There are alway entanglements with other scandals and murky dealings. To find a clean advocate, who can ask the most difficult of questions, will be the toughest aspect of this law
@AndyBurnhamGM @MetroMayorSteve
The aftermath of Grenfell in some ways operated as a real-life test for this proposed law but has struggled. Advised by Hillsborough campaigners the public bodies involved signed up to various "Duty of Candour" statements. But no such reqt could be placed on the private sector
and they operated as their lawyers advise them to - commercially and defensively. The Hillsborough law has always had an inherent challenge (not necessarily unresolvable) that it flies in the face of how civil lit unfolds after disaster

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8 Jan
1.Many of the agencies involved in the responses to Salisbury,Grenfell and Manchester were well briefed on what was soon expected to be law – the Hillsborough law. It was considered best practice and its principles were applied to the aftermath. Here is what I learned. A brief🧵
2. The Duty of Candour did have an important and focussing effect on public bodies. Agencies created their own charters and made much of signing them.They were firm with legal teams that they wanted to adhere to them.
3. Duty of Candour does not apply to private sector who are often involved in both causation and response. The private sector make up the majority of the firms under scrutiny at Grenfell. The Met at Grenfell relied heavily on private sector contractors in the response...
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24 Dec 21
A short 🧵on Data and Disasters: 1. This pandemic has been all about data and data dashboards and numbers and exponentials. What do you do with that if you are a disaster recoverer? Well firstly you watch your colleagues providing it,they are often the source of the numbers 1/10
2. This can be exhausting and something responders can resent. Most incident inquiries have central government's incessant need for numbers as a key distraction in the response. Hovewer this time its mainly useful and this has been one of our most finely calibrated disasters ever
3. They provide them so they are rarely a surprise. Instead responders/ recoverers look at numbers for what they mean tomorrow - impact assessments of what will be needed and also whether they are taking us anywhere near overwhelm in which case we get ready to ask for more
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22 Dec 21
Trauma mental health/ standard mental health offerings are NOT going to cut it with the types of distress we are seeing. @DHSCgovuk and @NHSEngland have been slow to recognise the needs of staff so I worry that they won’t get the offer right to the public either
They also have form for tailoring the trauma response to issues that fit with the “approved agenda” so you won’t see awareness of issues like vaccine injury or the recognition of harms of lock down
The pandemic has huge parallels with enduring environmental disasters that involved fear and long lasting contamination. It leads to obsessive behaviour and unliveable-with levels of anxiety
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23 Nov 21
You were screaming for an extended lockdown and for the schools to stay shut
The defendant “relished his distress during lockdown”dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Meanwhile over in the mortuaries we were reminding the government planners that we would need provision for the children that were at risk of this exact fate…
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21 Nov 21
2021 Round Up for the #TheRecoveryShelf - what’s been your must have and what’s on your book wish list? Light hearted, Self Help, Core text. Maybe even book of the year? @TheEPS1
It’s fair to say it’s been a bumper year for incredible disaster management writing @gillkernick @SamLMontano @amandacomms
Best reviewer as always @mtthwhgn
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13 Jun 21
There is always such an air of sneering smugness about the idea of people who fall for fake news. Things that I have seen labelled as fake news in my career: 1. That the police opened the gate 2. That first aid was deliberately held back due to fears of the crowd..3. The 9/11..
…dust contained carcinogens 4.Journalists were hacking the phones of bereaved 5. That there was collusion between police forces and major news outlets 6. That there were risks to children of the swine flu vaccine 7. That there was a serial killer operating in Greater Manchester
8. That Jimmy Saville was a paedophile 9. That Stuart Hall was a paedophile 10. That there might not be WMD 11. That the hands of the dead were removed in Marchioness disaster 12. That there were risks to women of vaginal mesh 13… and of J and J talcum powder…
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