Civil emergencies - Emergency plan

Rochdale Council will do everything it can to protect people, property and the environment, by minimising the effects of a disaster and endeavouring to continue its services, whilst returning the situation to normality as speedily as possible.

The Risk and Resilience unit co-ordinates the planning, training, exercising, activation and the management of the Council’s response to emergencies. The unit works alongside the emergency services, voluntary agencies and other agencies who have a role to play, to ensure there is co-ordinated and effective response.

The Emergency Services and the Council have each prepared plans to deal with our response in a major incident. By co-operating with the emergency services and developing an integrated emergency management we have ensured that our arrangements will be harmonised.