The responsibility for Emergency Planning at the Council lies with the Council’s Environment and Leisure Service. The Cambridgeshire County Council’s Emergency Management Team supports the Council.

Our role in an emergency is to:

• Support the emergency services and other statutory services in their work dealing with a major event or disaster
• Ensure that essential local services continue to be provided to the community during such an event
• Lead or help in returning the community to a state of normality at the earliest opportunity

How do we do this?

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Liaising with the Emergency Services, Cambridgeshire County Council Emergency Planning Team, other Local Council Unitary Authorities (mutual aid), voluntary organisations, private agencies and departments to ensure that we have an integrated response to an emergency (multi-agency).

Working together we prepare contingency plans, organise major incident training and exercises to prepare for actual emergencies. Whatever the incident, Fenland District Council’s role is always to provide support and care to the community and to get things back to normality as soon as possible.

Civil Contingencies Act 2004

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The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 places a duty on all Category 1 responders (which includes the Local Authority) to "assess the risk of an emergency within, or affecting a geographical area for which each Category 1 responder is responsible", and compile a Community Risk Register (CRR).

 

The duties extend to the following:

• Assess local risks and use this to inform emergency planning
• Put in place emergency plans
• Make arrangements to inform the public about civil protection matters
• Maintain arrangements to warn, inform and advise the public in the event of an emergency
• Share information with other responders to enhance co-ordination and efficiency
• Provide advice and assistance to business and voluntary organisations about business continuity management

 

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As a Category 1 responder, Fenland District Council has worked with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough multi agency response team, to produce the Community Risk Register.

To view the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough community risk register, see external links.

For information use our online form or email: info@fenland.gov.uk