Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Environment and Transport regarding the deliberations of the Overview and Scrutiny Panels on the content of the Council’s Emergency Plan.

Approved the contents of the protocol for notifying and supporting District Councillors in an emergency, appended to the report and authorised the Director of Operational Services to consult with Parish Councils on their role in an emergency and report back thereon to a future meeting.

Further to Minute No. 03/153, consideration was given to a report by the Head of Environment and Transport (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) to which was attached a protocol for notifying and supporting District Councillors during an emergency. 

The Cabinet were informed that the protocol had been produced in response to the Overview and Scrutiny Panels’ concerns that the Emergency Plan did not address the community leadership role that Ward Councillors could undertake during an emergency.  Attention having been drawn also to the absence of a structured approach to the involvement of Parish Councils in emergency planning issues, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  (a)  that the contents of the report be noted;

  (b)that the protocol, appended to the report now submitted, for notifying and supporting District Councillors in an emergency be approved; and

  (c)that the Director of Operational Services be authorised to consult with Parish Councils on their role in an emergency and report back thereon to a future meeting.