| Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes CCA business continuity update
In the bulletin Lisa Zammit states: “As announced in a bulletin from Dan Greaves in August 2006, and in response to feedback from local responders, CCS is leading a project to identify and disseminate good practice in relation to business continuity management and the other newer duties of the Act (business continuity promotion, communicating with the public and risk assessment). “In relation to business continuity management, a working group consisting of representative category 1 responders and business continuity practitioners has been set up to steer the 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. “Based on the issues raised by the practitioner group and local responder community, a programme of work has been agreed. The group will develop an area on the UK Resilience website which, taking the BCM Standard (BS25999) framework, will provide guidance on key areas of BCM via ‘how to’ documents, discussion papers and through examples of good practice. “The group has identified three areas in which local responders would like to see more guidance: • awareness and training; • exercising; and • methodology. “The group’s initial focus will be on seeking out existing good practice in these areas, identifying where gaps exist and where they do exist producing solutions to fill these. “The intention is to launch the area on the website in autumn 2007. Although work to develop this will be ongoing.” Read the complete bulletin (PDF)
•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector BC
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