Proposer: Councillor W Gill
Seconder: Councillor Fisher
This Council recognises the importance of having defibrillators accessible, especially in public places, sports grounds and Government funded facilities.
This Council understands the role that it has in facilitating the delivery of new defibrillators across our Borough.
This Council acknowledges the benefits of the new rollout of defibrillators by the Government to all state-funded schools that currently don’t have one, with over 20,000 expected to be
delivered by the end of the academic year to 18,000 schools.
This Council commits to working with the local community to find suitable places to place defibrillators, acknowledging that they are most effective within 3 minutes of a person collapsing.
This Council, therefore, resolves to invite the executive to commission a report into the accessibility of defibrillators in Sandwell and take any steps necessary to ensure that there is a defibrillator within a 3-minute radius of our town centres and high-streets.
Minutes:
It was moved by Councillor W Gill and seconded by Councillor Fisher:-
‘This Council recognises the importance of having defibrillators accessible, especially in public places, sports grounds and Government funded facilities.
This Council understands the role that it has in facilitating the delivery of new defibrillators across our Borough.
This Council acknowledges the benefits of the new rollout of defibrillators by the Government to all state-funded schools that currently don’t have one, with over 20,000 expected to be delivered by the end of the academic year to 18,000 schools.
This Council commits to working with the local community to find suitable places to place defibrillators, acknowledging that they are most effective within 3 minutes of a person collapsing.
This Council, therefore, resolves to invite the executive to commission a report into the accessibility of defibrillators in Sandwell and take any steps necessary to ensure that there is a defibrillator within a 3-minute radius of our town centres and high-streets’
In accordance with Standing Order No.12, Councillor Hartwell moved the following amendment to the Motion, seconded by Councillor Millard:-
‘This council recognises the importance of having defibrillators accessible, in public places, sports grounds, and government funded facilities; especially in schools and this council supports the installation of defibs by the end of the 2022/ 23 academic year.
This council understands the role that it has in facilitating the delivery of new defibrillators across our borough – and fully supports the initiative and will provide all the support necessary for the Sandwell schools who apply for the scheme.
This Council acknowledges the benefits of the new rollout of defibrillators by the government to all states- funded schools that currently don’t have one. Nationally over 20,000 are expected to be delivered by the end of the academic years to 18,000 schools.
We ask that this Council continues to work with the local community to find suitable places to install defibrillators, acknowledging that they are most effective within 3 minutes of a person collapsing, and will continue to use www.defibfinder.uk to ensure local defibs are recorded when the Council is informed and also to monitor each town in Sandwell for coverage.
It is also important that this Council also recognises the importance of Bleed Kits in the community. There are many ways for a catastrophic bleed to occur, such as from a car accident or a work related incident as well as through knife crime.
As both defibs and bleed kits are placed in the community to save lives we ask the executive to commission a report into the accessibility of Bleed Kits in the community while it looks at the location of defibs in Sandwell as we have recently become aware that West Midlands Police have installed 200 around the West Midlands. We also ask that the Council makes businesses aware of the importance of Bleed Kits and that this Council website links to the Daniel Baird Foundations resource page http://controlthebleed.org.uk’
The amendment was accepted, the amended motion was put to the vote and, having been carried, it was RESOLVED accordingly.