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“Successful places are resilient places”

Civil Contingencies Secretariat, January 2012

The Staffordshire Resilience Forum (SRF) partnership’s Training and Exercise Prospectus for 2012/13 is now available. 

Every day in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, work goes on to prepare our communities for emergencies. 

British Red Cross brought their new Command and Control Vehicle to the Civil Contingencies Unit (CCU) today, to raise awareness to Duty Officers within the Unit.

On the afternoon of Saturday 4 February 2012 Staffordshire saw moderate amounts of snow across most of the County, with totals exceeding 10cm in some places. Consequently, driving conditions became very difficult in many places, with many minor roads, and some main roads, becoming impassable to all but 4 wheel drive vehicles.

Earlier this week, Staffordshire Civil Contingencies Unit led an exercise to validate Staffordshire County Council’s IT business continuity arrangements.

The Staffordshire Prepared Generic Offsite Reservoir Plan was launched earlier this month, with the aim of giving Reservoir Owners and Emergency Responders a guide to actions they should take in the event of a potential or actual dam burst in the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent area.

Yesterday saw staff from Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Cannock Chase and South Staffordshire District Councils attend training to carry out the role of Forward Control Officer for their Authority.

Staffordshire Resilience's third Information Sharing Forum at Keele University was today hailed as a great success by delegates attending from across Staffordshire. Held at the Ballroom, Keele Hall, representatives from Local Authorities, NHS Trusts, Emergency Services and Voluntary Sector heard the latest updates on a range of emergency preparedness subjects.

This edition of the Crisis Response Journal sees an article by Andy Marshall, Director of Civil Contingencies, on e-Learning in Staffordshire.