Civil Contingencies 2011 Conference Programme

• • Preparing effective and well-practiced emergency processes for reducing or controlling mitigating circumstances of emergencies
• • New developments for planned exercises and staff training 
• • The impact of emergency planning at UK Government level on long-term risk assessments
• • Harnessing new technologies to maximise efficiencies in Civil Contingency Planning
• • Identifying the roles of the police, NHS, emergency planning services and local authorities under a generic emergency plan 
• • Analysing how the Civil Contingencies Act Enhancement Programme will overcome some of the challenges of an emergency

• • The Role of the Community Resilience Steering Group in working with communities and stakeholders
• • Assessing the progress of the Community Resilience Action Plan
• • Achieving efficiency and transforming the Civil Contingency sector
• • Sharing experience and expertise to enhance the Government's contribution to building and enhancing community resilience
• • The role of emergency notification to alert local communities and businesses in extreme situations
• • Ensuring business availability services and backup in times of disaster
• • Providing private sector businesses access to reliable business continuity services
• • Improving asset investment planning to increase resilience and emergency response
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• • Working closely with the Department of Health, Strategic Health Authorities and BT officials to mobilise and secure the success of the National Pandemic Flu Service
• • The role of emergency call centres in handling a high level of contact
• • Identifying lessons learned from the swine flu response
• • Development of NHS Direct’s integrated online symptom checker and the future use of channels such as web chat and social media forums 
• • Utilising GIS technologies to effectively deploy resources in emergency situations
• • Integrating operational arrangements to be flexible enough to respond to local needs and circumstances during emergencies

• • Working with retailers and other local businesses after the flood to make necessary improvements 
• • A new leadership and development programme is helping West Cumbria tackle floods aftermath 
• • Ensuring good communications between the town’s businesses and the multiple agencies and organisations offering support 
• • Securing help and funding by developing marketing and promotion campaigns for events in the town centre 
• • Pulling resources together with police, fire and ambulance services and multi-agency coordination for the recovery and regeneration of Cockermouth

• • Understanding the lessons of the H1N1 outbreak
• • Educating the public and your workforce to manage the impact of a new pandemic
• • Applying best practice for developing an integrated and effective response to an emerging pandemic
• • Reducing the strategic risks of a pandemic outbreak for your communiuty - What must policy makers now prioritise?
• • How healthcare analytics and informatics can help plan for and direct resources to deal with pandemics
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• • Latest emergency strategies to secure supply in the event of disasters and cyber threats
• • Working with the utilities sector to effectively plan and prepare for disasters
• • Emergency planning for natural disasters under the Civil Contingencies Act
• • Understanding the National Risk Register's plans for handling a complete outage of electricity supplies
• • Minimise the impact of an electricity or gas supply emergency by instructing power stations to use alternative fuel sources to generate electricity
• • Securing and mobilising fieldworkers in times of crisis
• • The Importance of Power Management & UPS Backup Systems

• • Role of Flood and Water Management Act 2010 in offering a more comprehensive management of flood risk for people, homes and businesses
• • Working with communities and businesses around a flood recovery strategy
• • Greater effort is needed by companies to factor climate risk and opportunities into their business
• • Defra’s expectations for the forthcoming White Paper, expected in spring 2011, on the natural environment and protecting England’s natural assets and food security 
• • Supporting a strong and sustainable green economy resilient to climate change
• • Potential threats - drought, water scarcity , severe storms and flooding 
• • Defra ‘s role in helping farmers adapt to climate change risks in order to make the food and drink industries more resilient

• • Incident Command System: a unified framework for command and leadership in the UK Fire Service
• • Extension of leadership and command exercised in the everyday operations of the emergency services
• • Using Command and Control technologies to deploy resources and increase operational efficiency
• • The vital role of the command and control centre in achieving successful emergency plan outcomes
• • Importance of co-operation and information sharing within the local resilience 
• • Communication strategies to provide public awareness and arrangements to warn, inform and advise the public
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• • The government’s ‘Strategy for Enhancing the Resilience of Emergency Responders’ Telecommunications’
• • Remote working – Putting contingency plans in place, guaranteeing they are effective
• • The questions arising from the extreme weather experienced in February 2009
• • Is our broadband infrastructure adequately prepared for a sustained and concentrated period of mass social distancing?
• • Using mobile telecommunication devices to improve resilience planning
• • Preparing for the structural readjustment of a migrated workforce
• • Data security during a pandemic situation – Is security possible?
• • Widening communication beyond technical means
• • Implementing a disaster recovery plan for IT

Dr Nigel Brown, Lead for Resilient Telecommunications, Cabinet Office (Confirmed)

• • Update on how Civil Contingency Act Category 1 and 2 responders are working through collaboration on communications interoperability
• • Breaking barriers to silo working and challenges of information sharing between different agencies
• • Providing police forces with a framework for responding to an emergency or major incident
• • Assist police officers and police staff in the development of contingency plans and local emergency plans
• • Providing the Ambulance, Fire and Rescue and Police Services the 'blue light services' working together to coordinate across the command and control structures
• • Investing in technology capabilities aligned with people and process
• • Developing the diverse skills necessary for emergency response
• • The need to invest in interoperable systems to facilitate collaborative working and improve operational performance
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• • Understanding the threat of terrorism and cyber security as key government priorities
• • Identifying the most likely sources of UK terrorist activity
• • Designing out terrorist threats in civil planning and protecting crowded places - looking ahead to the 2012 Olympics
• • Ensuring new strategies to protect critical national infrastructure; Understanding the implications to the new UK National Infrastructure Plan
• • Creating World Class Cyber Security Defence Systems
• • The impact of the ‘Strategic Defence and Security Review’ on Civil Contingencies
• • Preparing for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or explosives (CBRNe) threat or incidents.
• • Incorporating the advancement of CBRN Technologies into your contingency planning

• • Protecting key elements of the transport infrastructure during extreme weather conditions and hazards 
• • Improving winter resilience of England’s roads and transport systems by providing the right amount of salt stock
• • Building greater resilience into Britain’s transport networks by adapting to climate change
• • Devising environmental civil contingencies in the event of flooding, water pollution and water and food contamination
• • Dealing with the increased risk of water scarcity, droughts and climate change
• • New requirements for local authorities in their local flood risk management strategies
• • Incorporating the Volcanic Ash Contingency Plan into existing emergency strategies 
• • Joint management for environmental resilience across the regions and services
• • Understanding the role of the London Resilience Team during the Olympics
• • Cross communication between emergency services, local authorities and other organisations to release agreed upon information speedily 
• • Upgrading the role of police command, control and event planning and management systems 
• • Ensuring that all Olympic emergency plans are integrated with other functional areas as well as wider Government emergency plans
• • Increasing public and personnel safety through improved multi-agency communication and co-ordination
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