Preparing for Emergencies

The South West Regional Resilience Team has been set up in the Government Office to support the civil protection community across the region in their preparations to handle situations that have a regional or wider impact. In recent years the range of possible challenges has increased and may no longer be restricted to a localised area. This has meant that building the resilience of regions is a Government priority.

What is an emergency?

An emergency is a situation which presents a serious threat to one or more of the following:

• human welfare
• the environment
• the security of the United Kingdom

The South West Regional Resilience Team works with local authorities, the emergency services and other key agencies to ensure that the region is prepared to deal with emergencies. Their major roles are to:

• improve the co-ordination of civil protection at regional level
• improve co-ordination with local responders
• support planning for a regional response
• co-ordinate government resources in a disaster
• assist with recovery
• build on existing civil protection structures
• create civil protection partnerships

The Regional Resilience Team supports the formation of Regional Resilience Forum, which is made up of representatives from Local Resilience Forums the armed forces, local authorities and regional agencies, to provide a multi-agency strategic direction to civil protection planning at a regional level. 

Events, Exercises and Meetings

Events, exercises and meetings taking place regionally and nationally that may be of interest to Emergency Planners in the region are available to download as Excel documents.

It is hoped that making this information available will help avoid conflicting meetings, exercises etc. The documents contain only details of events notified to the Regional Resilience Team.

To assist us in this you are asked to notify the Regional Resilience Team of any new events or errors. The Calendar can be found below in Related Documents.