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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Emergency Planning

In 2017, the responses to the Manchester Arena bombings and the Grenfell Tower fire were substantially criticised. Examples are the Stafford Act in the USA, the Disaster Management Act of India and Law 225 of 1992 in Italy. Failure to utilise the basic law is an indication that it is not fit for purpose.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The prior iteration also included critical focuses like creating a culture of preparedness and simplifying bureaucracy as important nods to basic challenges in disaster management. Using this data, we summed the enacted budget authority for supplemental appropriations by year.