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Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council,
Town Hall, Coton Road,
Nuneaton, Warwickshire,
CV11 5AA

Tel: 024 7637 6376
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About Emergency and Contingency Planning

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What is Emergency Planning?

Emergencies can happen at any time. Most can be dealt with by what we normally refer to as "the emergency services" - Police, Fire and Rescue and Ambulance, but some emergencies are so severe or have such an impact that they affect whole communities.

Think of the floods of 2007 - some people still haven't been able to go back to their homes. Floods are not the only cause of emergencies - industrial accidents, animal diseases (foot and mouth) and major public protests have all affected large numbers of people across the country in the past few years.

Thankfully these major emergencies are very rare but it is important that we are all as well prepared as we can be. The Council's emergency planning service work hard to make sure that the disruption caused to residents would be kept to a minimum if the worst ever happened. Some of our main roles would be:

Making sure our services continue to run as well as possible;
Arranging accommodation for people made temporarily homeless by the emergency;
Re-housing people made permanently homeless by the emergency
Providing information and advice to the public.

The Council's work in this area is governed by legislation - the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA).

An emergency as defined by the CCA is:

"An event or situation which threatens serious damage to human welfare in a place in the UK, the environment of a place in the UK, or war or terrorism which threatens serious damage to the security of the UK."

The CCA places seven duties on Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council. The duties are:

Assess the risks facing our borough
Create emergency plans
Communicate with the public
Co-operate with other responding organisations
Share information with other responding organisations
Make our own business continuity arrangements
Promote business continuity to businesses again links

Some pages which may help you prepare yourself for emergencies are:

Pages in Emergency or Contingency Planning

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Emergency Plans

Who We Work With

How We Will Communicate With You

What You Can Do In An Emergency

Continuity Planning for Businesses

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For more information about what we are doing in Emergency Planning contact:

Andrew Daw

Communications and Events Manager

(024) 7637 6372

andrew.daw@nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk

The Borough Council works with Warwickshire County Council and more information and advice on emergency planning and links to other useful websites can be found by visiting the Emergency Planning Unit website at:

www.warwickshire.gov.uk/999