Schools, offices and hospitals told to rehearse terrorism response

[MagisCapulus]

It seems like it is one thing after another at the moment.

Is this really a threat, do you think? Or media hype? Do they know more than they are letting on?

It seems the original advice was published in '17, '18 so it seems odd to republish now in the middle of a pandemic? They say it is in response to Reading, but haven't we had attacks since '18, and it wasn't republished then? For example, Streatham in February, London Bridge in November, Machester in October?

This is the article I was referring to: news.sky.com/story/schools-offices-and-hospitals-told-to-rehearse-terrorism-response-12016474

The threat is probably higher now than it has been for a while. But, in the same way that fire evacuation plans should be revisited regularly, planning for an attack like this is just a sensible precaution.

We already do (teacher) and it’s called lockdown training. We tell the children it’s in case there’s a dog in the playground. We practise 3 or 4 times a year.

It's sensible not to give up rehearsing how to deal with terrorism because there's another crisis on. The government stopped our pandemic planning because they wanted to focus on Brexit instead and look where that's got us.

@JimmyGrimble

We already do (teacher) and it’s called lockdown training. We tell the children it’s in case there’s a dog in the playground. We practise 3 or 4 times a year.

Same at my children's school.

We do lockdown training in case of a major incident at the hospital I work in, I think every 6 months..

We've locked the hospital down twice, once as a precaution during a riot at nearby prison and once when an unhappy former employee with a grievance turned up with a crossbow

Where I work we had an incident that turned into a lockdown situation but turned out to be a complete false alarm.

It has given the powers that be some major lessons on what needs to be done in the future. It was a useful exercise for us and the local emergency services.

I think it should be done more frequently in a lot of work places/schools etc....

We already do (teacher) and it’s called lockdown training. We tell the children it’s in case there’s a dog in the playground. We practise 3 or 4 times a year.

Interesting. My childrens schools never have. That said, recently their former school had to lockdown because of a gunman in the area. So they obviously have plans in place!

It's sensible not to give up rehearsing how to deal with terrorism because there's another crisis on. The government stopped our pandemic planning because they wanted to focus on Brexit instead and look where that's got us.

Good Point!

It’s probably been revised and republished now as a lot of departments don’t have anything to do, life stopped for a while so I assume things like this which in normal time’s get out on the back burner we’re probably assigned to somebody working from home.

I don't work in education any more but when I did a couple of years ago we would do lock-down practice and the process was almost the direct opposite of social distancing, it was like a game of sardines.

The teachers would have to know what the plan is for terrorism attack in every school, even if the children are unaware.