Civil emergencies - emergency plan
The emergency planning team is responsible for ensuring relevant emergency plans and procedures are in place to deal with an emergency incident within Anglesey.
What is emergency planning?
Our aim is to assess the local threats and risks and plan for the response and recovery should an incident occur. The ultimate objective is to minimise impact of disaster on the day-to-day lives of our communities and the environment and to assist the return to normality.
How do we do it?
We work with a wide range of other agencies, prepare contingency plans, organise major incident training and exercises to prepare for emergencies, just in case. Whatever the incident, the role of the county council is always to provide support and care to the community and to get things back to normality as soon as possible. This involves partnership working with various agencies and organisations both internally and externally.
Designated members of staff are trained in various aspects of dealing with an emergency incident, ranging from on-scene management through to welfare and recovery.
The Civil Contingencies Act 2004
The Civil Contingencies Act, and accompanying non-legislative measures, delivers a single framework for civil protection in the United Kingdom capable of meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century. The act and supporting regulations and statutory guidance Emergency Preparedness establish a clear set of roles and responsibilities for those involved in emergency preparation and response at the local level.
Community risk register
To help us decide where we should concentrate our efforts in emergency planning terms it is important that we continue to assess the potential risks. The importance of risk assessment is emphasised by the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
The act places a legal duty on Category 1 responders (these include the police, fire, ambulance, health, Maritime and Coastal Agency, and local authorities) to undertake risk assessments and maintain them in a community risk register. The North Wales Community Risk Register is available to view on the North Wales Resilience Forum website.
Local Resilience Forum (LRF)
Co-operation between the large number of organisations involved in emergency preparedness and response is fundamental.
The principle mechanism for multi-agency co-operation at the North Wales local level is the Resilience Forum. The North Wales Local Resilience Forum is based on the local police force area and brings together all the organisations that have a duty to co-operate under the Civil Contingencies Act, along with others who would be involved in the response to an emergency.
