Resilience in the community
DEPP collectively and as individual local authorities aim to improve community resilience by encouraging groups or volunteers already active in the community to prepare and exercise local community led emergency response plans. This work is undertaken on our behalf by Devon Communities Together under the Devon Communities Resilience Forum project.
DEPP also encourage businesses to be more resilient by having business continuity plans to protect themselves against disruption (for example, cyber-attacks) by raising awareness with SMEs and voluntary groups and to be a conduit for information and guidance.
Community Resilience Hubs
A Community Resilience Hub is your community’s place to go and help one another in an emergency. Find out more information and how your community could establish a hub.
Recovery
When an emergency incident occurs the blue lights (police, fire and rescue and ambulance services) generally take the lead for the response phase and set the strategy for dealing with the initial impact.
Almost as soon as the incident occurs the local authorities will be looking at the longer term recovery aspects.
The scale of recovery can vary from little impact to whole communities devastated with the recovery period taking months or even years to complete. The rebuilding, restoring and rehabilitating the community following an emergency or disaster, continues until the disruption has been rectified, demands on services have been returned to normal levels, and the needs of those affected have been met.