Gainsborough Care Home Swanage

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003360/A

Version Date: 07/07/2025

The Alliance Legal Services Department and the Local Resilience Forum (LRF) have provided the following information.

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding a specific police incident that occurred on 23rd October 2024 at Gainsborough Care Home Swanage. Specifically, I am seeking the following details:
1.         Which Agencies were represented at the multi agency’s meetings?

Agencies represented at the Tactical Co-ordinating Group (TCG) meetings:

• Dorset Police
• Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service (DWFRS).
• South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust (SWAST).
• Dorset Council
• Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP) Council
• NHS Dorset
• NHS England
• UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
• Ministry of Defence
• Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
• Environment Agency
• Network Rail
• National Highways
• Voluntary Sector Lead
• British Red Cross

2. What date where the agency meeting held?

• 1st TCG - 09:30 hrs 23rd October 2024
• 2^ndTCG - 11:45 hrs 23rd October 2024
• 3^rdTCG - 16:30 hrs 23rd October 2024
• 4^thTCG - 16:30 hrs 24^th October 2024

3. Who was chairing these meeting?
   
   

• The first TCG meeting was chaired by Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service (DWFRS) Station Manager Neil Tidball.
• The subsequent three meetings were all chaired by Dorset Police Supt Neil Wright.