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##### Sustaining Community Services: Implementing BCM at Jamiyah Home for the Aged
# \[BCM\] \[JHA\] \[E3\] \[BCS\] \[P2\] \[CBF\] \[1\] Recovery Strategies for Personal Care and 24-Hour Supervision
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It gave the function a continuous Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD) of one hour.
This chapter answers the following question: **how will the Home keep that promise when people, premises, equipment, systems, or suppliers fail?**
For each of the fourteen Sub-Critical Business Functions (Sub-CBFs) within CBF-1, it recommends an RTO, a recovery strategy and a recovery location, explains how the strategy works, and sets out why it was chosen over the alternatives.
All RTOs, stock levels and response times are recommended starting points, to be validated against JHA's resident profile, staffing and licensing conditions before the Board adopts them.
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### Recovery Strategies for CBF-1 Personal Care and 24-Hour Supervision
#### About this chapter
The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) set a clear floor for CBF-1 Personal Care and 24-Hour Supervision at Jamiyah Home for the Aged (JHA): every resident accounted for and supervised at all times, with essential care such as toileting, repositioning, hygiene and safe transfers delivered as planned.
It gave the function a continuous Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and a Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD) of one hour.
This chapter answers the following question: **how will the Home keep that promise when people, premises, equipment, systems, or suppliers fail?**
For each of the fourteen Sub-Critical Business Functions (Sub-CBFs) within CBF-1, it recommends an RTO, a recovery strategy, and a recovery location; explains how the strategy works; and sets out why it was chosen over the alternatives.
All RTOs, stock levels and response times are recommended starting points, to be validated against JHA's resident profile, staffing and licensing conditions before the Board adopts them.
#### The Purpose of Recovery Strategies
ISO 22301:2019 (clause 8.3) requires an organisation to identify and select business continuity strategies and solutions using the outputs of its BIA and risk assessment, to determine the resources those strategies need, and to put them in place before they are needed. ISO 22313:2020 adds guidance on weighing the options.
Put simply, a recovery strategy is the method, agreed in advance, by which a function returns to its minimum acceptable level within its RTO: a decision taken on a calm day so that no one improvises at three in the morning. Chapter BCS P1 dealt with mitigation, which reduces the likelihood or impact of disruption; this chapter assumes the disruption has happened anyway.
#### From the BIA to a Recovery Strategy
Recovery strategies are not chosen from a catalogue. They are derived, step by step, from what the BIA has already established:
1. **Confirm the minimum.** The Business Unit MBCO for CBF-1 defines what “recovered” means.
2. **Take the time limits.** The BIA gives each Sub-CBF an MTPD, and the RTO sits inside it.
3. **List the resources needed at the minimum level,** sized for the MBCO rather than for normal operations.
4. **Ask how each resource could be lost:** staff shortage, outbreak, utility or IT failure, supplier failure, or loss of the premises.
5. **Choose the option that restores the minimum within the RTO at acceptable cost,** and record why the alternatives were rejected.
This sequence makes the strategies auditable: a reviewer from MSF, MOH or internal audit should be able to trace any row of Table BCS P2 back to a BIA result and a credible scenario.
#### How RTO and MTPD Shape the Choice
The MTPD marks the point at which harm to residents becomes unacceptable. The RTO sits inside it, leaving a margin to notice the problem, decide and mobilise. A strategy is valid only if it works within the RTO, including detection and decision time.
The shorter the RTO, the more the strategy must already be in place rather than called up:
- **Immediate RTO:** the strategy must be “always on”: trained staff on shift, stock on the shelf, techniques already practised. There is no time to order, hire or travel.
- **1 to 4 hours:** the duty manager can mobilise standby resources, such as the relief pool, a second pharmacy, or a teleconsultation service.
- **24 to 72 hours:** activities can be deliberately paused and restored to a plan, freeing capacity for urgent functions.
CBF-1 has a continuous RTO, yet some Sub-CBFs carry RTOs of 48 or 72 hours. This is not a contradiction: admissions and scheduled care plan reviews are part of the function but are not needed to meet its minimum in the first hours. Each Sub-CBF's RTO reflects its own impact curve, and the CBF is governed by its most time-critical parts.
#### Why the fourteen sub-functions need different approaches
A single strategy for the whole of CBF-1 would be either unaffordable or unsafe. Hands-on care happens wherever the residents are, so its strategies rely on people, stock and manual technique.
Coordination tasks can be done from anywhere; information tasks need a paper fallback; planning tasks can wait. The Sub-CBFs therefore fall into four recovery profiles.
| **Recovery profile** | **Sub-CBFs** | **Typical RTO** | **Where recovery happens** | **Dominant strategy types** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Hands-on care that cannot stop** | **1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11** | **Immediate to 2 hours** | **Wherever the residents are** | **Prioritisation, cross-training, manual techniques, reserve stock** |
| **Clinical safety and escalation** | **1.8, 1.12** | **1 hour** | **On site, with remote clinical support** | **Manual workaround plus third-party support** |
| **Coordination and accountability** | **1.3, 1.13** | **1 to 2 hours** | **On site or remotely** | **Cross-training, layered external support, remote working** |
| **Information and planning** | **1.1, 1.2, 1.14** | **8 to 72 hours** | **On site, with cloud-hosted systems** | **Suspension, paper fallback, cloud recovery** |
#### How to read Table BCS P2
Recovery locations in standard BCM guidance are framed around offices and data centres. For a residential home the location follows the resident, so this chapter uses four locations:
| **Recovery location** | **What it means at JHA** |
| --- | --- |
| **Primary Site** | **The Home's premises at 1 Tampines Avenue 3. Most disruptions are recovered in place, because moving frail residents carries its own risk.** |
| **Alternate Care Site** | **A partner home, another Jamiyah Singapore facility or an MSF-designated facility, used if the premises cannot be made safe within their MTPD. Activation sits with the premises and relocation strategy; CBF-1 strategies travel with the residents.** |
| **Remote Working Location** | **Any location from which the duty manager, Superintendent or a doctor can coordinate, report or advise by phone and video.** |
| **Cloud Environment** | **The vendor-hosted electronic care record and rostering tools.** |
The table also rests on several operating assumptions, each of which should be confirmed during validation:
- JHA operates from a single site, with nurses and care staff delivering care and a visiting doctor providing medical cover.
- A significant share of care staff may live in shared accommodation, so an outbreak or movement restriction can remove several staff at once.
- Records, medication charts, and rosters are held in hosted systems, with current printed backups.
- Jamiyah Singapore can provide limited mutual aid from its other facilities, except in community-wide events.
- Stock levels follow the BIA: seven days for medication, fourteen days for PPE and personal-care consumables.
### Table BCS P2: Recovery Strategies for CBF-1 Personal Care and 24-Hour Supervision
| **Sub-CBF Code** | **Sub-Critical Business Function** | **Recovery Time Objective (RTO)** | **Recovery Strategy** | **Recovery Location** | **Details of Recovery Strategy** | **Justification for Selected Recovery Strategy** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **CBF-1.1** | **Admission and Care Needs Assessment** | **48 Hours** | **Workload Prioritisation with Manual Workaround** | **Primary Site; Alternate Care Site if residents are relocated** | **People: A designated senior nurse assesses; the case worker liaises with MSF and hospitals.** **Process: With MSF's agreement, routine admissions pause. Residents returning from hospital and MSF-directed urgent cases proceed on a one-page Essential Admission Assessment (allergies, medication, mobility, swallowing, cognition, fall and pressure risk); the full assessment follows within seven days.** **Technology: Paper form; discharge summaries by email or hard copy.** **Facilities: An admission room that doubles as isolation for new arrivals.** **Communications: One named contact for MSF and hospitals.** **Resources: Pre-printed packs for at least 20 admissions.** **Activation: The Superintendent restricts admissions on BCP activation.** **Assumptions: MSF supports deferral of routine admissions in a declared disruption.** | **Admissions do not affect current residents' safety in the first hours, so 48 hours is defensible, but returning residents cannot wait: an unassessed resident is a fall, choking and medication risk. Prioritisation protects nursing time for existing residents. Diverting all admissions depends on capacity JHA does not control, and full assessments mid-disruption would pull nurses from Tier 1 care.** |
| **CBF-1.2** | **Individual Care Planning and Review** | **72 Hours** | **Temporary Suspension of Non-critical Activities, with Manual Workaround** | **Primary Site; Remote Working Location for plan updates** | **People: Named nurses own care plans; the nursing lead approves changes.** **Process: Scheduled reviews pause; care continues against current plans. A one-page Resident Care Summary per resident records transfer method, diet texture, continence, behaviour triggers, faith practices and Advance Care Planning preferences. Only event-driven changes are made, handwritten and countersigned.** **Technology: Summaries printed monthly and after each change; offline tablet copy.** **Facilities: Binders at each nursing station and in the evacuation grab bag.** **Communications: Families told routine reviews are paused.** **Resources: Current printed summaries for every resident.** **Activation: The nursing lead suspends reviews on BCP activation.** **Assumptions: Summaries are never more than 30 days old.** | **Care plans stay valid for days; what matters in a disruption is that every carer, including agency and redeployed staff, can see them. The summary sheet does this at negligible cost and travels with residents if relocated. System-based options fail exactly when IT is down.** |
| **CBF-1.3** | **Care Workforce Rostering and Shift Deployment** | **1 Hour** | **Cross-trained Personnel, backed by Third-party Recovery Support and a Reciprocal Arrangement** | **Primary Site; Remote Working Location for the duty manager** | **People: A 24-hour on-call duty manager; a relief pool; admin and kitchen staff cross-trained for supervised, low-risk support.** **Process: An approved Safe Minimum Roster for normal, reduced and outbreak conditions. On a shortfall: extend the outgoing shift within safe hours; call the relief pool; call the agency; request mutual aid from Jamiyah Singapore facilities; consolidate zones. Fixed split teams during outbreaks.** **Technology: Hosted rostering tool with printed weekly copy; group messaging and SMS call-out.** **Facilities: Staff rest area and emergency overnight accommodation.** **Communications: Call-out script; shift briefing on the roster in force.** **Resources: Agency framework contract with a stated response time; competency matrix; agency orientation pack.** **Activation: Automatic when the next shift is forecast below the safe minimum; delegated spend limit for the duty manager.** **Assumptions: Agency and mutual aid may both be scarce in a community-wide outbreak.** | **Staff are the single point of failure for every hands-on sub-function. The 1-hour RTO reflects the need to secure the next shift before current staff leave; an agency alone cannot meet that, but shift extension and the relief pool can. Cross-training uses people already on site and is far cheaper than permanent surplus headcount.** |
| **CBF-1.4** | **Activities of Daily Living Assistance** | **Immediate** | **Workload Prioritisation, with Cross-trained Personnel** | **Primary Site; Alternate Care Site** | **People: Care staff on duty, supported by cross-trained staff under supervision.** **Process: Tasks are pre-classified as essential (toileting, oral care, dressing, safe positioning, help with ablution for residents who pray) or deferrable (showers become bed baths; extended grooming waits). High-dependency residents are served first.** **Technology: None; dependency colour-coded on the care summary.** **Facilities: No-rinse products allow care to continue if water fails.** **Communications: Task cards from the shift lead; families told of temporary reductions.** **Resources: Fourteen days' wipes, no-rinse cleansers, gloves, aprons and linen.** **Activation: The shift lead switches to essential mode on reduced staffing or utility failure.** **Assumptions: The Safe Minimum Roster (CBF-1.3) holds.** | **Daily living care cannot pause, and hygiene and dignity are part of the Corporate MBCO. Prioritisation lets a reduced team protect residents without cutting safety corners. Relocation would be disproportionate for a staffing or utility problem, and surplus staff would sit idle most of the year. Ablution support keeps the minimum consistent with the Home's faith commitments.** |
| **CBF-1.5** | **Continence Care and Skin Integrity Management** | **2 Hours** | **Workload Prioritisation, with Manual Workaround** | **Primary Site; Alternate Care Site** | **People: Care staff check and reposition; a nurse reviews high-risk skin.** **Process: Checks and repositioning continue at care-summary intervals, high-risk residents first. If powered pressure mattresses fail, staff switch to two-hourly manual turning on static foam overlays.** **Technology: Battery back-up on mattresses where available; paper turning charts.** **Facilities: Sluice and clinical waste storage, with contingency collection.** **Communications: New skin damage reported through CBF-1.13.** **Resources: Fourteen days' continence products, barrier creams and dressings; a static overlay per powered-mattress resident.** **Activation: Automatic on mattress alarm, power failure or reduced staffing.** **Assumptions: Any generator may not supply mattress circuits.** | **Pressure injuries can begin within hours in immobile, frail residents, so a 2-hour RTO matches the repositioning interval. The main dependency, powered mattresses, is covered by low-cost overlays rather than an expensive generator upgrade, and stock reserves guard against the supply shortages seen during COVID-19.** |
| **CBF-1.6** | **Mobility, Transfer and Fall Prevention** | **Immediate** | **Manual Workaround, with Cross-trained Personnel** | **Primary Site; Alternate Care Site** | **People: All care staff trained in manual handling; two-person moves for hoist-dependent residents.** **Process: If hoists, electric beds or lifts fail, staff use slide sheets and transfer boards, and non-essential transfers stop. High fall-risk residents get lowered beds and floor mats; rounds increase in poor light.** **Technology: Battery hoists with charged spares; beds with battery or manual lowering.** **Facilities: Evacuation chairs for residents above ground level; emergency lighting.** **Communications: Fall-risk status on the care summary; post-fall escalation via CBF-1.12.** **Resources: Slide sheets, spare batteries, floor mats, non-slip footwear, head torches.** **Activation: The shift lead on equipment or power failure, or staff shortfall.** **Assumptions: Lifts are unavailable in a power failure or fire.** | **Falls are a leading cause of serious injury in residential care, and risk rises with unfamiliar staff, poor light and hurried transfers, hence an Immediate RTO. Manual techniques need no external resource and are the only option that works without power. Duplicate powered equipment would cost more and still need electricity.** |
| **CBF-1.7** | **Feeding and Hydration Assistance** | **1 Hour** | **Cross-trained Personnel, with Workload Prioritisation** | **Primary Site; Alternate Care Site** | **People: Competent staff assist residents with dysphagia; cross-trained staff prompt others.** **Process: Residents grouped as full assistance or texture-modified (served first), prompting, or independent. Staggered sittings; two-hourly fluid rounds in heat or loss of air-conditioning; paper intake charts for at-risk residents.** **Technology: None; IDDSI diet levels on the care summary.** **Facilities: Dining room or bedside; adapted cups and cutlery.** **Communications: Kitchen (CBF-3) and care share one diet list.** **Resources: Fourteen days' thickener, pre-thickened drinks, bottled water.** **Activation: The shift lead at the next meal or fluid round.** **Assumptions: Meals supplied under CBF-3; Ramadan fasting managed through care plans.** | **Choking and aspiration are immediate, potentially fatal risks when untrained staff feed residents with dysphagia, so those residents are reserved for competent staff. A 1-hour RTO keeps assistance in step with meal and fluid rounds; dehydration develops quickly in frail older people in Singapore's heat.** |
| **CBF-1.8** | **Medication Administration Support** | **1 Hour** | **Manual Workaround, with Cross-trained Personnel and Third-party Recovery Support** | **Primary Site; Alternate Care Site (medication travels with the resident)** | **People: Only medication-competent staff administer, at least one per shift; second checker for high-alert medicines.** **Process: Time-critical medicines (insulin, anticonvulsants, Parkinson's medicines, anticoagulants, end-of-life medicines) go first, within the prescribed window. If the electronic record fails, staff use printed downtime charts and reconcile later.** **Technology: Weekly-printed downtime charts; offline tablet copy.** **Facilities: Locked medication room; fridge on an essential circuit, with cool box and thermometer as fall-back.** **Communications: Contacts for pharmacy, visiting doctor and an alternative prescriber.** **Resources: Seven days' medication reserve; emergency supply agreement with a second pharmacy.** **Activation: The nurse-in-charge on outage, staff shortfall or supply interruption.** **Assumptions: Pharmacies deliver within 24 hours; controlled-drug rules unchanged.** | **Missed time-critical doses can cause hypoglycaemia, seizures or acute rigidity within hours. The BIA allows medication (CBF-2) a 4-hour MTPD, so a 1-hour RTO leaves room to detect and decide. Paper charts are proven and IT-independent; a second pharmacy removes a single-supplier dependency; competency limits meet regulatory expectations.** |
| **CBF-1.9** | **Point-of-Care Infection Prevention and Control** | **Immediate** | **Cross-trained Personnel, with a Pre-positioned PPE Reserve** | **Primary Site (isolation and cohort zones); Alternate Care Site** | **People: An infection-control link nurse per shift; all staff competent in donning and doffing; dedicated staff per affected zone.** **Process: Suspected cases isolated or cohorted within one hour; the Home zoned with dedicated staff and equipment; enhanced cleaning; daily screening; visiting per MOH directions.** **Technology: A simple outbreak line list.** **Facilities: Pre-identified isolation rooms; donning, doffing and hand-hygiene stations.** **Communications: MOH and MSF notification as required; family updates; zone signage.** **Resources: Fourteen days' PPE including fit-tested respirators; disinfectants; test kits.** **Activation: The nurse-in-charge on the first suspected case; the Superintendent declares an outbreak response.** **Assumptions: MOH guidance will change and PPE may be scarce nationally.** | **Infection can spread within one shift, so the RTO is Immediate. COVID-19 experience in residential care showed that early isolation and cohort staffing, not technology, limit spread. Moving residents out is rarely appropriate and tends to spread infection; strengthening practice in place is safer and cheaper.** |
| **CBF-1.10** | **Day and Night Supervision and Safety Rounds** | **Immediate** | **Manual Workaround, with Workload Prioritisation** | **Primary Site; Alternate Care Site** | **People: Shift staff, a floating staff member for rounds, and the on-call duty manager.** **Process: Headcount at every shift change and at least four-hourly. If nurse call or CCTV fails, rounds go hourly (30 minutes for high-risk residents); at night residents may be consolidated into fewer zones.** **Technology: Hand-held radios; hand bells for residents; CCTV on battery back-up where fitted.** **Facilities: Emergency lighting.** **Communications: Dedicated radio channel; escalation to the duty manager.** **Resources: Charged radios, spare batteries, round-sheet packs, head torches.** **Activation: The shift lead on loss of nurse call, CCTV or power, or reduced staffing.** **Assumptions: If fire detection fails, a fire watch is mounted per SCDF requirements.** | **Supervision is the heart of the Corporate MBCO: every resident accounted for at all times. Staff rounds are the primary control and can be stepped up instantly at almost no cost; radios and bells are cheap aids. Duplicating nurse-call or CCTV systems would cost far more and still fail in a power cut.** |
| **CBF-1.11** | **Dementia and Behavioural Care, including Wandering Prevention** | **Immediate** | **Manual Workaround, with Cross-trained Personnel** | **Primary Site; Alternate Care Site** | **People: Staff trained in person-centred dementia care; named staff for high wandering-risk residents.** **Process: A wandering-risk register with recent photographs. Exits are manned if access controls release, as they do in a fire alarm or power failure. Missing-resident protocol: immediate search, then police (999), MSF and family. Restraint only as policy permits.** **Technology: Wearable alerts where used; printed photos as back-up.** **Facilities: Secure garden and quiet room.** **Communications: Missing-resident alert template; shift briefing on triggers.** **Resources: Photo register, ID bracelets, familiar items to settle relocated residents.** **Activation: The shift lead on access-control failure, relocation or staff shortfall.** **Assumptions: Noise, staff change and relocation increase agitation and exit-seeking.** | **Residents living with dementia are harmed most by disruption itself, and a missing resident is a life-safety incident, hence an Immediate RTO. Staff presence is the only control that works when electronic locks release. Restraint or sedation to cover reduced staffing would be neither ethical nor compliant.** |
| **CBF-1.12** | **Health Monitoring and Clinical Escalation** | **1 Hour** | **Third-party Recovery Support, with Manual Workaround** | **Primary Site; Remote Working Location for teleconsultation** | **People: Nurses assess; the visiting doctor is on call, backed by a second provider or teleconsultation.** **Process: Paper early-warning charts for at-risk residents. Escalation: nurse, then doctor or teleconsultation, then 995 for emergencies or 1777 for non-emergency ambulance. A transfer pack (care summary, medication chart, Advance Care Planning preferences) goes with every resident.** **Technology: Battery thermometers, oximeters and glucometers with spares; video consultation by phone.** **Facilities: Treatment room; oxygen cylinders backing up concentrators.** **Communications: Doctor and hospital contact cards; next of kin told of transfers.** **Resources: Retainer with a second medical provider; spare devices.** **Activation: The nurse-in-charge when the usual doctor is unavailable or several residents deteriorate.** **Assumptions: Hospitals may be strained, so escalation thresholds are pre-agreed.** | **Deterioration in frail older people accelerates quickly, and the MBCO commits to round-the-clock medical access; a 1-hour RTO honours that. JHA does not employ doctors full-time, so external support is unavoidable; a second provider and teleconsultation remove a single point of failure for a modest retainer.** |
| **CBF-1.13** | **Incident Reporting and Safeguarding** | **2 Hours (protective action: Immediate)** | **Manual Workaround, with Remote Working** | **Primary Site; Remote Working Location** | **People: The shift lead protects and records; the Superintendent or an authorised deputy notifies MSF; a safeguarding lead oversees concerns.** **Process: Residents at risk are protected first and evidence preserved. A paper form is completed and MSF and next of kin notified within the MSF Code of Practice timeframes, by phone or email from anywhere. Allegations against agency staff also go to the agency and, where appropriate, police.** **Technology: Paper forms; phone and email; MSF's reporting channel.** **Facilities: None required; works on or off site.** **Communications: Pre-drafted templates for MSF and families.** **Resources: Incident packs; at least two deputies authorised to report.** **Activation: Any incident; a reporting officer named at BCP activation.** **Assumptions: Reporting obligations continue in full during a disruption.** | **Disruption raises safeguarding risk through fatigue and unfamiliar staff. Incident management is a licensing domain under the Social Residential Homes Act 2025 and its Code of Practice, and the duty does not pause. A 2-hour RTO keeps reporting well within required timeframes, with immediate protection. Paper and remote reporting cost almost nothing and remove dependence on the Superintendent being on site.** |
| **CBF-1.14** | **Shift Handover and Care Documentation** | **8 Hours (by the next shift change)** | **Manual Workaround, with Cloud-based Recovery** | **Primary Site; Cloud Environment** | **People: The outgoing shift lead runs handover; staff back-enter records after recovery.** **Process: Structured SBAR handover, verbal and written, at every shift change. Downtime packs hold care-note, turning, intake, medication and round sheets; records are back-entered or scanned within 72 hours of recovery.** **Technology: Cloud-hosted care record under a vendor service-level agreement; scheduled offline reports; 4G router and battery-backed printer.** **Facilities: Secure storage of paper records in line with the PDPA.** **Communications: Vendor service desk and IT support contacts.** **Resources: Downtime packs for 72 hours per unit.** **Activation: The shift lead when the system is down for more than 30 minutes.** **Assumptions: The vendor restores service within its agreed time.** | **Handover failure is a well-known source of care errors, and the risk crystallises at shift change, so the RTO is the next handover. Paper is immediate and proven. Relying on the cloud vendor for system recovery spares JHA the cost of its own disaster recovery site, which would be disproportionate for a charity of its size.** |
#### [![Banner \[BCM\] \[E3\] \[BCS\] \[Summing Up\] \[T2\] Recovery Strategies and Justifications](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/3893111/317d6303-6c77-453c-a507-827f436afd9f.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/317d6303-6c77-453c-a507-827f436afd9f)
#### How Recovery Strategies Support Business Continuity Planning
Table BCS P2 is the bridge between analysis and action. The BIA said what must be protected and how quickly; this table says how. Each row now becomes a section of the CBF-1 Business Continuity Plan: triggers become decision points, details become procedures and checklists, resources become a stock and contract register, and people become named roles with deputies.
#### Why Different Functions Need Different Strategies
The fourteen Sub-CBFs share one purpose, keeping residents safe and cared for, but they depend on different resources and fail in different ways. Feeding a resident with swallowing difficulties depends on a competent person at the bedside; incident reporting depends on an authorised person with a phone; documentation depends on a system or a paper form. Applying one strategy to all would either over-invest in functions that can wait or under-protect those that cannot.
#### How RTOs Drive the Selection
The RTO is the most powerful filter in strategy selection. Seven of the fourteen Sub-CBFs carry Immediate or 1-hour RTOs, and for those only strategies that are already in place can work: trained staff, pre-positioned stock and practised manual techniques. Options that rely on ordering, hiring or relocating are ruled out by time alone. Longer RTOs open up cheaper choices, such as deliberate suspension and planned restoration, which in turn release staff for the urgent work.
#### Balancing Resilience, Cost, Capability and Regulation
As a charity funded by public and donor money, JHA cannot justify gold-plated solutions such as a private disaster recovery site or a permanently over-staffed roster.
Nor can it accept any strategy that falls below its obligations under the Social Residential Homes Act 2025, MSF's Code of Practice or MOH infection-control directions.
The recommended mix therefore leans on low-cost, high-reliability measures (cross-training, paper fallbacks, rotated stock and layered external agreements) and reserves spending for dependencies that cannot be managed any other way.
The Code of Governance for Charities and IPCs (2023) expects the Board to oversee exactly these trade-offs, and any residual gap should be either funded or formally accepted with a remediation date.
#### From documented strategy to recovery readiness
A strategy written down is not yet a capability, but documenting it makes three things possible. It shows the Board and regulators what the Home has committed to and why. It gives managers a basis for budgets, contracts and training.
And it creates something to test: whether the relief pool answers the phone, whether paper medication charts are current, whether staff can move a hoist-dependent resident safely in the dark.
The immediate next steps for JHA are to:
- validate the RTOs and stock levels with CBF owners and frontline staff;
- confirm the staffing agency, second pharmacy, second medical provider and mutual-aid agreements;
- produce the Resident Care Summaries and downtime packs, and deliver cross-training;
- present strategies, costs and residual risks to the Board for approval; and
- exercise the highest-risk combination first: a night-shift staffing shortfall during a power failure.
Well-chosen, well-rehearsed recovery strategies are what allow JHA to say, with evidence, that its residents will be safe and cared for whatever happens.
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| **eBook 3: Starting Your BCM Implementation** | | | | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **MBCO** | **P&S** | **RAR T1** | **RAR T2** | **RAR T3** | **BCS T1** | **CBF** |
| [![\[BCM\] \[ALPS\] \[E3\] \[BIA\] MBCO Corporate MBCO](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/3893111/3e0b35d2-08b6-4caf-b7db-144625ec8145.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/3e0b35d2-08b6-4caf-b7db-144625ec8145) | [![\[BCM\] \[ALPS\] \[E3\] \[BIA\] \[PS\] Key Product and Services](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/3893111/ab611654-bce2-450c-affc-3970de6c8909.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/ab611654-bce2-450c-affc-3970de6c8909) | [![\[BCM\] \[ALPS\] \[E3\] \[RAR\] \[T1\] List of Threats](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/3893111/806c27e6-1db5-42a2-ac84-e0df3624bc49.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/806c27e6-1db5-42a2-ac84-e0df3624bc49) | [![\[BCM\] \[ALPS\] \[E3\] \[RAR\] \[T2\] Treatment and Control](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/3893111/bf6da142-014d-4c47-83cf-f31e0c55b75e.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/bf6da142-014d-4c47-83cf-f31e0c55b75e) | [![\[BCM\] \[ALPS\] \[E3\] \[RAR\] \[T3\] Risk Impact and Likelihood Assessment](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/3893111/4c14572c-2ed4-46aa-82c8-5ead8fd31ced.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/4c14572c-2ed4-46aa-82c8-5ead8fd31ced) | [![\[BCM\] \[ALPS\] \[E3\] \[BCS\] \[T1\] Mitigation Strategies and Justification](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/3893111/25548d11-adb7-4e6e-9a5a-054db2ea377d.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/25548d11-adb7-4e6e-9a5a-054db2ea377d) | [![\[BCM\] \[ALPS\] \[E1\] \[C10\] Identifying Critical Business Functions](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/3893111/94f8b16c-55da-4543-a948-448f2241296e.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/94f8b16c-55da-4543-a948-448f2241296e) |
| **CBF-1 Strategic Procurement and Sourcing** | | | | | | |
| **DP** | **BIAQ P1** | **BIAQ P2** | **BIAQ P3** | **BIAQ P4** | **BIAQ P5** | **BIAQ P6** |
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| | | **BCS T2** | **BCS T3** | **PD** | | |
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