North East London Local Authority Partnership

Survival through planning

Business continuity management

The North East London Local Authority Partnership

The North East London Local Authority (nella) partnership is made up of the following councils: Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, and Waltham Forest.

These councils' emergency planning and civil contingencies units work together to deliver the duties of the Civil Contingencies Act (2004). These duties include making sure there is a sound level of preparedness that ensures an effective and timely response and recovery to the risks and threats in these North East London councils.

Under the Act, it is now a requirement that councils maintain and exercise Business Continuity (BC) plans themselves to ensure that they can continue their functions in the event of an emergency.

The Act also requires councils to provide advice and assistance to business and voluntary organisations in relation to BC management. This is being achieved in North East London through the nella partnership which jointly promotes BC by:

• Raising awareness of the challenges to businesses
• Providing advice on how businesses can continue to operate in the event of a disaster such as:
  • Natural hazards
  • Terrorism
  • Being affected by major disruptions

More information on Business Continuity

Business Continuity Roadshows

If you were unfortunate enough for miss any of the events copies of the presentations are available below. If you would like to receive the full delegate pack that was supplied on the day or if you have any questions please feel free to contact us on NELondonContinuity@walthamforest.gov.uk

Presentations – available for download (Some of these files are quite large and may take a short while to download)

Case Study: Cowdray Centre – Local Authority [File Size 622KB]

Buying insurance for your business – Towergate Insurance [File Size 1.93MB]

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery – nextiraOne [File Size 211KB]

The Heat is On – ICM [File Size 1.4MB]

RapidReach Emergency Notification Service – Safeguard [File Size 344KB]