Emergency planning - Training and resources

Training

• Communities Prepared - join free to access learning resources and online sessions.
• Safeguarding training opportunities - Surrey Skills Academy website.

Resources

• Insurance for community groups - most common questions.
• Sign up to warnings, alerts and apps for weather, flooding and first aid
• Red Cross: learn first aid skills online
• Check your flood risk
• Preparing your home for flooding

Resources for young people, parents and teachers

• First Aid teaching resources for children and older young people by the Red Cross.
• Learn more about the weather and how it affects us
• Information on electricity and safety for young people, teachers and parents
• Online resources, activity sheets and story books by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Resilience Forum for younger children to learn about extreme weather, fire safety, water safety, road safety and sustainable transport.
• Resources for teachers:
  • See what is available from Surrey Fire Rescue Service
  • The British Red Cross has a range of tailored online classroom resources to help children and young people aged 6-19 engage with a range of topic areas, including by signing up to their Newsthink emails

Community resilience activity by young people

• The Duke Of Cornwall Award has lots of resources to make young people, but especially those who belong to a uniformed organisation, more resilient. Would your local Scouts, Guides, Cadets, or similar group like to take part?
• Children, young people and flooding: recovery and resilience: work of some Surrey and other young people helped by Lancaster University and Save the Children following the 2013-14 floods, including a short film on how young people are affected by flooding.