Based at the Guildhall in Nottingham City Centre, the Emergency Planning Team is part of the Risk Management division of Corporate Services. The Team reports to the Chief Risk Officer and in turn the Director of Corporate Services, who is a member of the City Council’s Strategic Management Team.

The Emergency Planning Team’s primary responsibility is to ensure that the City Council has a robust and resilient major emergency plan “Managing an Emergency”. This is to ensure that the City Council can respond promptly and appropriately to any major incident which occurs within, or impacts on, the city. It prepares for and deals with a range of major incidents (for example major transport accidents, chemical release, crowd problems at a public arena, disease/epidemic, major fire, building collapse, flooding, terrorist activities, gas explosions and severe weather).

The Team co-ordinates the planning, training, exercising, activation, and the management of the City Council's response to emergencies. The section works in collaboration with the emergency services, voluntary agencies and other agencies who have a role to play, to ensure there is a co-ordinated and effective response.

How our work is being recognised locally and nationally

Making the Headlines

Key Emergency Planning events organised and hosted by Nottingham City Council have been making the news lately.

Firstly with the “Launch Event of the Local Resilience Forum Partnership” held at the Council House Old Market Square. The launch was a major event where many of the significant leaders of key public and private organisations learned of the plans that are being put in place to respond to all types of emergencies. The LRF website www.nottsprepared.gov.uk was officially unveiled at this event.

Secondly with Exercise Flaspoint, designed to test the Nottingham City Centre Emergency Plan and involving key figures from the emergency services, Nottingham City Council, local businessess and the Government Office for the East Midlands.

Notts Prepared – recognised as“a national example of best practice and an excellent demonstration of a Public Awareness Programme”

Work undertaken by Nottingham City Council’s Emergency Planning Team, which is contributing towards Public Safety & Preparedness for an Emergency, has been recognised as“a national example of best practice and an excellent demonstration of a Public Awareness Programme”

The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Local Resilience Forum website www.nottsprepared.gov.uk the first standalone LRF website in the country, which has been designed, created and managed by Nottingham City Council’s Emergency Planning Team as part of our responsibility under the Warn & Inform element of the Governments Nationwide Capability Programme, has been greeted with wide acclaim from members of the Emergency Planning community locally, regionally and nationally.

Michael Warner of the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities, Mass Planning Team had this to say:

“Might I take a moment to compliment you on an excellent website.  It is evident that a significant amount of hard work and effort has gone into building it.  It is visually welcoming, user friendly and informative. I acknowledge it as a national example of best practice and an excellent demonstration of a Public Awareness Programme.”

Emergency Planning Team hosts Emergency Planning Delegates from Leicestershire

Nottingham City Council Emergency Planning Team also hosted a delegation from Leicestershire Police and County Council who, after seeing the site online, requested to visit to learn more about the site and our future ideas.