Emergency Preparedness
Emergency Preparedness provides guidance on Part 1 of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, its associated Regulations and non-statutory arrangements.
Emergency Preparedness and the accompanying document Emergency Response and Recovery, sets out the generic framework for civil protection. It deals with pre-emergency elements of integrated emergency management – anticipation, assessment, prevention and preparation.
The standard structure for most chapters of Emergency Preparedness includes details of the legislative requirements of the Act and the Regulations. They also offer good practice guidance on how Category 1 and 2 responders can carry out their duties to comply with the legislation; and provide useful information that is not governed by the legislation.
Some issues in common underpin the main chapters:
- the definition of emergency;
- the importance of Category 1 and 2 responders’ functions;
- the distinction between Category 1 and 2 responders; and
- the links between the duties
The Civil Contingencies Act Enhancement Programme (CCAEP) completed the review of the Emergency Preparedness guidance document in March 2012. The revised chapters are all available on line, and for download, on both the Cabinet Office UK Resilience website and the National Resilience Extranet website.
Downloads
- Chapter 1: Introduction (revised March 2012)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 366.58 kB
- Chapter 2: Co-operation (revised March 2012)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 2.02 MB
- Chapter 3: Formal Information sharing (revised March 2012)
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- Chapter 4: Local responder risk assessment duty (revised March 2012)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 1.24 MB
- Chapter 5: Emergency Planning (revised October 2011)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 673.69 kB
- Chapter 6: Business Continuity Management (revised March 2012)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 604.00 kB
- Chapter 7: Communicating with the public (revised March 2012)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 723.84 kB
- Chapter 8: Business continuity advice and assistance to business and the voluntary sector (revised March 2012)
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- Chapter 9: London (revised March 2012)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 303.76 kB
- Chapter 10: Scotland (revised October 2011)
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- Chapter 11: Wales (revised October 2011)
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- Chapter 12: Northern Ireland (revised October 2011)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 264.82 kB
- Chapter 13: Support and challenge (published March 2012)
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- Chapter 14: The Role of the Voluntary Sector (revised October 2011)
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- Chapter 15: Other Sectors that should be involved in Emergency Planning (revised October 2011)
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- Chapter 16: Collaboration and Co-operation between Local Resilience Forums in England (published March 2012)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 281.26 kB
- Chapter 19: The Fit with Other Legislation (published February 2011)
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- Annex 2A: Model terms of reference for the Local Resilience Forum
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- Annex 3A: Formal procedures for requesting information
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- Annex 3B: Information request proformas
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- Annex 4A: Summary of the six-step local risk assessment process
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- Annex 4B: Illustration of a Local Risk Assessment Guidance (LRAG)
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- Annex 4C: Example of an individual risk assessment
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- Annex 4D: Likelihood and impact scoring scales
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- Annex 4E: Community Risk Register
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- Annex 4F: Risk rating matrix
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- Annex 5a: Examples of generic and specific plans
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- Annex 5B: Generic plan: emergency or major incident
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- Annex 5C: Specific plan
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- Annex 5D: Example of a plan maintenance matrix for a local authority
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- Annex 7A: Communicating with the public: News Co-ordination Centre (revised March 2012)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 254.80 kB
- Annex 7B: Lead responsibility for warning and informing the public (revised March 2012)
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- Annex 7C: Checklist of suggested protocols (revised March 2012)
- File type: PDF - Portable Document format | File size: 246.54 kB
- Annex 7D: Duty to communicate with the public – The Ten Step Cycle (published March 2012)
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- Annex 14A: Examples of voluntary sector activities in support of statutory services
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- Further reading (revised October 2011)
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- Glossary (published March 2012)
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Publication date: 1/1/2006
