Emergency Planning

The Emergency Planning Unit is responsible for the production, maintenance and development of plans for an integrated response to any major emergency. This involves working closely with the emergency services, other Council departments, other local authorities, voluntary agencies and industry to ensure that any response to a major incident is carefully managed to ensure a return to normality as quickly as possible.

H1N1 flu information

Latest information for businesses about the H1N1 flu is available from www.coventry.gov.uk/businessasusual/

Emergency exercises

Free online course to help you plan for emergencies

Coventry City Council provides an online course that is FREE of charge to all Coventry Business Ratepayers. The online course comes in six modules and features quizzes and actual examples to help companies draw up their own plans to cope in a crisis – whether that be flooding on the factory floor or two people in an office of three getting the 'flu.

To access the course or for further information click the following: Core Principles of Business Continuity Management & Planning (external).

The Civil Contingencies Act

The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 is an important element of the Government's work to enhance and update the resilience of the United Kingdom to disruptive challenges of the 21st century.

The legislation and accompanying non-statutory measures give a single framework for civil protection in the UK. This improves the UK's ability to deal with the consequences of major disruptive incidents by improving the planning process at a local level, building better contacts between agencies and improving the link between local areas and central government.

Follow the link for more information about the Civil Contingencies Act.

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Contact details

Coventry Resilience Team
Lower Ground Floor, The Council House, Earl Street
Coventry
CV1 5RR
E-mail: emergency.planning@coventry.gov.uk

For additional information please contact:

Peter Streets
Emergency Planning Manager
Telephone: 024 7683 1837
E-mail: Peter.streets@coventry.gov.uk

Clive Townend
Civil Contingencies Manager
Telephone: 024 7683 1878
E-mail: Clive.townend@coventry.gov.uk

Out of hours telephone: 024 7683 2222