Emergency Planning
MAY 6, 2024
Wales has developed three regional emergency response coordination centres, but the rest of the UK is not following suit. For years, local authorities have been starved of funds and resources. As a result, many of them have done relatively little to develop emergency response capability beyond existing 'blue light' capabilities.
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Wording of this kind is designed to defy the country's leading philosophers of logic, and let's remember that the Act is designed to tackle a major emergency–sorry, disaster. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete. These are rather ambiguous bodies.
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Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Failing to plan, planning to fail. References Alexander, D.E.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
In the United Kingdom, the status of emergency planning has declined while it has been enhanced in other countries. Absurdly, it is not treated as a profession and has no career progression or higher education requirements (I should add that the field has an intellectual history that stretches back 101 years).
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 22, 2019
The reason for mentioning this example is part of my response to an article that appeared in Times Higher Education (THE 2019). I am amazed at how many authors submit work and do not even seem to have spent those vital two minutes putting the basic key words into Google Scholar. Reference THE 2019.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 16, 2021
Most heart-rending was a collection of about 100 children's school satchels, symbolic of an education blown apart by the disaster. Overlooked by the local authority they were struggling with a care burden that was making their lives intolerable, but they soldiered on with strength and fortitude, uncomplaining.
Emergency Planning
APRIL 9, 2020
It is obvious that much of what is written will be read by practically no one beyond the authors and perhaps a couple of referees. Times Higher Education , April 9, 2020. Covid-19 may be different because information may well become available to a geater order of magnitude than ever before. What use is it then?
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