Local authority emergency planning
- Puts in place plans and procedures to enable a Council to respond, as effectively as possible, to an emergency should one occur, and...
- Makes sure that these plans and procedures fit in with those of all the other response agencies, such as the Emergency Services, hospitals, utility companies, voluntary agencies and armed forces
The Council may be called upon to provide the following services:
- Social care and welfare
- Care centres
- Media briefing centres
- Public information centres
- Emergency feeding
- Temporary accommodation
- Emergency works and repairs
- Communications support
- Temporary mortuaries
- Transport
- Co-ordination of the recovery phase
- Resources
The following pages [accessible via the navigation on the left of this page] give information on the role of the Emergency Planning Service and provide information for members of the public to prepare themselves for responding to emergency situations.