A "DEBRIEF" on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is to take place at Clackmannanshire Council over the next six months to identify lessons learnt.

Councillors agreed last month to take forward an inquiry into the handling of the pandemic in the Wee County when they amended a motion from Cllr Dave Clark.

The original motion called for an independent inquiry with a focus on care home deaths, however, amendments mean the Audit Committee will scrutinise the council's own emergency planning debrief process.

A document to be tabled at Kilncraigs tomorrow, October 22, will confirm details of the process.

Subject to demands placed on the council in the coming months, "it is the intention to report the findings of this initial work to [the] Audit Committee before the 2021 summer recess".

The process will see the committee review the outcome of a national inquiry into the virus in Scotland as well as care home deaths, when available.

Senior leaders, partners and relevant members of the Local Resilience Partnership will also be meeting at forums to identify key lessons learnt.

Meanwhile, however, a pattern of "recovery-response-recovery" is set to continue for the local authority until Covid-19 is eradicated.

Council documents said: "The nature and trajectory of the current pandemic is uncertain and unprecedented; until such times as a vaccine is widely available, society and as a consequence, council services are not likely to return to what could be described as business as usual.

"This fundamentally changes the landscape for civil contingency management, which has become business as usual, with on-the-job learning being part of new daily routines at every level of the organisation."

The paper to be tabled added: "As more is learnt about the coronavirus, it would appear that it is [here] to stay, and it is a disease that humanity will need to live with in perpetuity.

"At the time of writing, no vaccine exists; therefore, outbreak management will inevitably become part and parcel of daily life, the consequences of which will continue to create disruption, uncertainty and increased demands on council services for a prolonged, undetermined period."