Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to a report on the proposed introduction of a Business Continuity Plan. The plan was intended to minimise the impact of any emergency which may affect the Council’s operations and to ensure the Council could quickly respond to and recover from such an emergency. It was noted that in the main this plan was intended to cover emergencies which were short term and modest in scale such as IT failure or short term severe weather problems.

It was reported that it was intended to produce further plans to cover specific emergencies such as pandemic flu. Individual departments would also produce specific service recovery plans. 

RESOLVED 

(a)       that the Business Continuity Plan attached to the report be approved;

(b)       that separate plans be produced to cover specific emergencies such as pandemic flu; and

(c)        that individual service recovery plans be produced to cover specific service areas.