Emergency planning
Prepare, respond, protect
About emergency planning
The Emergency Planning and Resilience Team are responsible for discharging Hampshire County Council's responsibilities under the Civil Contingency Act 2004. The team work to ensure that the Council can respond to, and recover from, emergencies affecting Hampshire. To support this, the Council's Corporate Resilience Framework describes how the organisation will maintain vital services during major disruption and how services will return services to a new normal afterwards.
The Emergency Planning and Resilience Team work closely with multi-agency partners within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Resilience Forum (HIOW LRF) on a variety of activities including risk assessment, producing emergency plans and training and exercising. There are many stakeholders within the HIOW LRF including the emergency services, local authorities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, the NHS and the Environment Agency.
Responding to emergencies
The Emergency Planning and Resilience Team support the emergency services, and other agencies, in responding to major emergencies. This may be through:
- providing shelter for displaced people in rest centres
- implementing traffic management procedures
- providing public health advice
- getting information to residents
- working with stakeholders to reduce and adapt the risk of flooding
The Emergency Planning and Resilience Team work with staff from across the Council to develop the skills to respond to an emergency. The team always have a Duty Officer on call who is able to support the emergency services and wider stakeholders to respond to emergencies and put the relevant plans into action.
For more information on emergency preparedness and response:
Contact Emergency Planning
To contact the Emergency Planning and Resilience Team, please use the below email address. If you are a partner organisation, and need to contact the team, then please refer to your internal contact lists where you will find our internal and out of hours contact details.
Email: [email protected]
Please note that the above email address is only monitored between Monday and Friday (excluding Bank Holidays) from 8am to 4pm. Emails sent outside of these hours will not be picked up until the next working day.
Emergency Planning and Resilience Team, Hampshire County Council Elizabeth II Court South Winchester SO23 8UJ