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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete. They are managed by the country's local resilience forums. They lack consistent funding and have little executive authority. It lacks a national emergency operations centre.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

Safety’ refers to protection against major hazards such as storms, floods and industrial explosions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates. The business continuity plans will function in parallel to emergency response plans.