Resilience & Learning from Major Incidents

As part of the West Midlands Training, Exercising & Learning Group, the simulation centre team received the award for Resilience & Learning from Major Incidents, at the Excellence in Fire & Emergency Awards 2019.  

The Simulation Centre's Frank Mills, Janet Campbell, James Doyle & Emma Parkinson joined colleagues from West Midlands Ambulance Service, West Midlands Fire Service, West Midlands Police & CSW Resilience, as part of the West Midlands Training Exercising & Learning Group for the Excellence in Fire & Emergency Awards 2019, from FIRE Magazine, where we were delighted to receive the award for Resilience & Learning from Major Incidents.  

The West Midlands Training Exercising & Learning Group is a multi-agency group setup to support and coordinate multi-agency training events, exercises and associated learning sessions within the City of Coventry. 

The group received the award for exercise: Trouble in Paradise, the fully simulated JESIP exercise, that took place in the simulation centre. The exercise, which had over 75 participants take part, was fully developed and delivered by the specialists from the simulation centre, and emergency services part of the West Midlands Training, Exercising & Learning Group.