DSC Resource Library

Practical resources to support compliance and readiness

Welcome to the Decision Support Centre’s Resource Library — a hub for accessing tools, templates, and training designed to help you meet the your compliance demands and deliver safer events and venues.

Whether you’re a Responsible Person, event organiser, or venue operator, this page offers access to our Events and Venues Toolkit and Incident Response Playbooks, each designed with practical guidance you can use immediately. More resources will be added as guidance around Martyn’s Law becomes available from the Home Office and the appointed regulator, the SIA.

You’ll also find enquiry forms to express interest in our Event Framing Packs, Responsible Persons Training and the DSC Monitoring Service, both tailored to support readiness, compliance, and public safety across all types of organisations — from grassroots to national scale.

We’ve added a useful video to help you understand whether your event or venue qualifies under Martyn’s Law. Go to: Martyn’s Law

Toolkits & Playbooks

Toolkits & Playbooks

Aligned with national guidance and JESIP principles, these are a vital resource for any organisation conscientious about preparedness.

Events & Venues Toolkit – From safety planning and risk assessments to staff briefings, training checklists, and compliance templates, the DSC Events & Venues Toolkit is your essential guide to delivering safer, smarter and legally prepared events. Built with Martyn’s Law in mind but importantly covers holistic risks, this practical, ready-to-use resource is tailored for Responsible Persons, organisers and venue managers at all levels, including grassroots and community-led events up to mainstream commercial organisations. Everything you need to get started.

Incident Response Playbook – Designed to help venues and events respond swiftly and effectively to a wide range of incidents, the DSC Incident Response Playbook offers a suite of scenario-based guides, from suspicious items, evacuations to hostile threats, weather disruption and medical emergencies.

On the next screen we also share a preview of the contents pages for each resource.

INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAYBOOK

EVENTS TOOLKIT

Responsible Persons Training (CPD Course)

Responsible Persons Training (CPD Course)

Course Aim: To equip designated Responsible Persons at venues and events with the knowledge, skills and confidence to fulfil their likely legal obligations through proportionate, practical and actionable measures.

The training identifies a key industry challenge: many organisations, particularly grassroots venues and community-led events, are being tasked with new legal responsibilities, often without the internal expertise or budget to respond confidently. This training bridges that gap by offering clear, accessible and proportionate guidance that reflects the realities of day-to-day operations.

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Monitoring Service

Monitoring Service

The DSC Monitoring Service will deliver real-time, curated intelligence across a full range of risks, critical infrastructure disruptions, digital outages, severe weather and overlapping event activities.

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Event Framing Pack

Event Framing Pack

The Event framing Pack (EFP) supports informed decision-making and evidential planning by identifying external factors that may materially affect the safe, secure, and effective delivery of an event.

Specifically, the EFP is designed to:

  • surface foreseeable external constraints, dependencies, and sensitivities affecting an event site and its access routes
  • reduce reliance on informal, ad-hoc, contractor led or late-stage intelligence gathering
  • support earlier identification of issues requiring mitigation, liaison, or redesign
  • provide a clear, auditable record of pre-event framing and due consideration
  • improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of information presented to Safety Advisory Groups (SAGs), insurers, and relevant authorities.

By doing so, the EFP helps shift event planning from a reactive posture to a proactive, evidence-led approach, aligned with modern expectations of governance, resilience, and accountability.

Intended Users

Primary users
• Event organisers and producers
• Venue operators
• Local authority and public-sector event teams
• Safety and security professionals

Secondary beneficiaries
• Safety Advisory Groups
• Emergency services
• Insurers and risk advisers
• Landowners and managing agents

  • The Event Framing Pack is explicitly positioned as:
    • a decision-support and due-diligence aid
    • a snapshot of relevant information correct at the time of issue
    • a complement to, not a replacement for:
      • site inspections
      • surveys
      • statutory approvals
      • professional judgement

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Martyn’s Law

The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, known as Martyn’s Law, will improve protective security and organisational preparedness across the UK by requiring, for the first time, that those responsible for certain premises and events consider the terrorist risk and how they would respond to an attack.

MORE ABOUT MARTYN’S LAW