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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates. Local mayors or chief executives should have a primary role in ensuring that arrangements are in place for emergency planning, management and response.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

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. Moore-Bick, M.