Category one responders’ performance against the duties mandated by the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 has now been integrated into existing mainstream performance assessment frameworks.

The Cabinet Office says that this approach will ‘ensure that civil protection is brought into the mainstream activities of category one responders’. It will also ‘make best use of existing expertise within performance assessment bodies and their established relationships with category one responders.’

The Civil Contingencies Act Team has worked closely with all performance assessment bodies to ‘ensure that the Act is integrated into mainstream performance assessment frameworks in a robust, fair and consistent way’.

In the future, the team will continue to work with performance assessment bodies and sponsoring government departments to put in place a process to facilitate the sharing of good practice across the assessment frameworks. This will ‘ensure that standards evolve reflecting the developments in civil protection as the Act becomes firmly embedded in category one responders’ activities’.

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•Date: 2nd August 2006• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector
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