UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat provides an update on CCA duty to promote business continuity

The Civil Contingencies Secretariat has issued a stakeholder bulletin which discusses the duty of category one organisations to promote business continuity, under the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

The bulletin sets out how The Civil Contingencies Secretariat is ‘taking forward work to identify and disseminate good practice in relation to the business continuity promotion duty’. It also informs stakeholders about the work the Cabinet Office is undertaking to develop centrally provided promotional materials.

Highlights of the bulletin include:

* A working group consisting of practitioners, representatives of the business community, business support organisations and marketing professionals has now been set up to steer business continuity promotional work. “The first task for the group was to identify the issues that needed to be tackled and to agree a work plan for taking them forward. In addition to the expertise of the group, input has been sought from the local responder community through the initial bulletin, articles in magazines, regional workshops, EPC courses and seminars.”

* Over the next seven months, the Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS) with the support of the above group will:

- Develop a promotional leaflet for use by local authorities. The CCS will aim to produce the leaflet in a form that can be displayed on local authorities’ websites.

- Develop a national business continuity management toolkit hosted on the ‘Preparing for Emergencies’ website (which is the central portal for advice to businesses on business continuity) that can be used by business and voluntary sector organisations when developing business continuity arrangements.

Read the full bulletin for more details on the above.

•Date: 12th January 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: CC Act
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