Emergency Planning: Public Services, Inter-Agency Work, and CCA 2004

This report analyzes the crucial role of public services in emergency planning within the UK, focusing on their responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA 2004). It evaluates inter-agency working between public services during emergency situations, emphasizing the importance of coordinated efforts and effective communication. The report also examines the key elements of different emergency plans, including systematic evacuation processes, shelter provisions, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation strategies. Furthermore, it recommends improvements to emergency plans by increasing awareness, reducing service disruptions, conserving critical resources, and ensuring appropriate training for personnel, ultimately aiming for better decision-making and resource utilization during emergencies. The document highlights the necessity of information sharing and protective activities to enhance the effectiveness of emergency planning in the UK.

Emergency Planning and Public Services
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Table of Contents
Task 1............................................................................................................3
Task 2............................................................................................................5
Reference:......................................................................................................8
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Task 1
1.1 Explain the role played by public services in emergency planning.
It is noteworthy to mention that any condition or situation which threatens the human society
by causing severe damage in the environment in UK paves the way for emergency situation.
There are many vital roles played by public services during the emergency situation within
the country (White, 2016). Below are the emergency situations which need attention:
 It may be sudden attack of terrorism
 Natural calamity such as earth quake, flood, tsunami etc,
 Any sort of accidents happen generally in the industries
 The severity of winter season
 Epidemics caused by special flu
It is necessary to provide safety to the public by the public services by correct emergency
planning. Execute correct plans and train the staffs. Any organisation should ensure that the
staffs involved in emergency situation handling should receive proper training. There should
be planning for emergency under Civil Contingencies Act which is civil protection
responsibility. Planning of emergency at sub-national stage. It is different from local level
planning. There are planning at UK Government stage where they are setting up resilience in
every parts of UK (Bryson, 2018). It asses risk for various range including chemical and
nuclear factories to understand the challenges of UK. It is the duty to execute safety
improvement plans. New policy and its development with the help of government legislation.
It is their duty to look after the natural calamities and to act accordingly. They also work with
different agencies to give support to the situation during emergency. There are also Fire and
Rescue Team who looks after the preventing fire.
1.2 Evaluate inter-agency working between public services in emergency situations
using procedures and plans in place.
Inter- agency association mainly targets is to bring the agencies, services providers etc,
together to perform the activities more efficiently in UK. It should provide an awareness
programme in different organisations and also to look after the resources required during
emergency. It also looks after the priorities which affect the staffs. The inter-agency plays the
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role of leadership quality in the emergency situation. Leadership cannot be performed by any
authority body but by any individual who is expert and can influence others during the need
of emergency. It is also the duty of the inert-agency to provide quick ideas during any
emergency situation in UK.
Policy and legislation of UK Government has increased the need to inter-agency for the
effective working public services during emergency. It also keeps the information and data
secure and gives full priority (Foster et al.,2017). It is their main duty to maintain the
confidentiality of the information. Inter-agency brings the numerous stakeholders
simultaneously to take part in a shared plan needed for the emergency situation by using their
procedures and plans. Though association is valuable, however, others cannot place the
similar value on the information. Thus inter-agency makes the work of the public services
little easy during implementation of plans in emergency.
1.3 Analyse the responsibilities of the public services to meet the legislative
requirements of emergency planning (CCA 2004).
The public services play a vital role in emergency situation and to provide services to any
urgent situation the public services have to meet the requirements of the legislature in
Civil Contingencies Act (CCA 2004) in UK. The act is divided into parts a) civil
protection arrangement and b) emergency planning.
The CCA Part 2 Act came into force on 2004, December. It is used to measure the risk
factor and to incorporate policies, guidelines, etc to restrict the possible risk factors. The
management of risk factor is important within the organisation to protect the safety of the
employee. It came up with particular legislation to deal with the serious emergency
situation. It shows that the utilisation of urgent powers is the last option and arrangement
of planning at local levels (Waugh, 2015). The main motif is to safeguard the interest of
the public during emergency by following the CCA 2004. It is the combined legislative
framework and it includes and part 2 of CCA includes the following planning:
 Transmission holding, division or interrelated licences
 Holding special licences which is under Gas Act1986
 Safety and Health Management
 Harbour Establishment
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 Transportation system of London
 Operations in aircraft
 Looks after the railway assets and its provider
 Looks after communication by means of providing networks to telephone
Task 2
4.1. Analyse the key elements of different emergency plans.
According to ( Suris and Akre, 2015) emergency planning is the essential part to be always
prepared for any situation in UK. It has to be an organised approach for protection of records,
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information and data. Natural calamities, sudden threats require emergency plans. The
elements of different emergency plans are stated below:
 Systematic Evacuation Process: There is need of evacuation on certain situation
depending on the factors such sudden fire, bombing etc. There are planned evacuation
process which helps to evacuate quickly during emergency by following the easy
routes
 Shelter: There are few situations which needs to stay in shelter such as if the
atmosphere is toxic due to contain of chemicals
 Preparedness: It is important to protect oneself and others in the time of emergency
not to get stuck in that situation
 Response: An attendant should be there to help the victim with medical needs and the
responsibility should be taken by someone
 Recovery: When the situation is under control there should be an effective mitigation
plan which will help in recovery of the damaged situation
 Mitigation: It is necessary to understand the reason for the emergency situation,
accident, natural calamity etc. It is also mandatory to get to the root of the problems
and try to find out the way to minimise the incident (Azhar, et al., 2016).
4.2 Recommend improvements to emergency plans.
Planning is the important part of emergency situation. It can be achieved by following
particular process. There are both negative and positive side in any services. However, it is
better to focus on the positive side to improve the emergency plans and also to minimise the
negative side. There are few recommendations to improve the emergency plans (Saunders et
al., 2015).
It is necessary to increase awareness among everyone in any organisation or in any situation.
Emergency managers access analysis on special factors to improve the situation. Reduce
disruptions to services of public and actions for citizens living there (Heath et al., 2018).
Look after the progress in any public services in UK. It conserves critical services and
resources thus reduce issues.
A good decision is taken for the betterment by following certain strategies with the
cooperation of everyone. Is the responsibility to provide correct resolution during the
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emergency situation in the UK. It makes good use of the available resources to improve the
emergency plans. Information needs to be shared in all the departments to assess the threat.
There should be protective activities for their safety. It is mandatory to determine if there is
any regulation while performing emergency planning. In this context it is mandatory to
review the objective’s performance for the improvement in emergency planning in UK. It is
also necessary to train the persons to perform the individual roles and responsibilities.
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