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Suffolk Resilience Business Continuity Forum

The Suffolk Joint Emergency Planning Unit has set up a network of businesses and voluntary organisations across the county to promote business continuity. The objectives of this forum are:

· To provide businesses with information on how to develop their business continuity arrangements

· To create opportunities for businesses to learn from each other

· To ensure that businesses can provide each other with practical support and resources in the actual event of an incident

You can join the forum by contacting the Business Continuity Team of the Joint Emergency Planning Unit. There is no charge or paperwork.

The Business Continuity Team is:-

Rick Thornton (Business Continuity Manager) 01473 260439 Lesley Fayers (Business Continuity Officer) 01473 264099
rick.thornton@suffolk.gov.uk lesley.fayers@suffolk.gov.uk

Services requested over and above those planned (such as bespoke training courses) may be subject to charge.

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Producing the Business Impact Assessment

8th April 2010 - 09:45–12:45 followed by lunch. Registration from 09:20

Willis, Friars St, Ipswich, IP1 1TA

· What the BIA needs to achieve.

· Identifying functions and threats.

· BC threats and business risk, how do they fit?

· Data gathering methods.

· BIA methodology. Download the flyer (PDF 71kb)

A half day workshop looking at the skills, knowledge and resources needed to successfully produce the company BIA.

Who should attend? SME business leaders, managers, and anyone with emergency planning or business Continuity responsibilities.

Next Forum Event

To book your FREE place, e-mail

lesley.fayers@suffolk.gov.uk

For more details on this or any of our other free forum events call Lesley on 01473 264099

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Forthcoming Forum Events New schedule to be announced.

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Previous Business Continuity Forum Meeting - Documents and Presentations

Tuesday January 12th 2010 – BT, Adastral Park. Planning a Business Continuity Exercise

Planning An Exercise (pdf 348kb)

Willis Presentation (pdf 240kb)

Workbook (pdf 218kb) Note: The workbook contains links to other sites that provide more useful exercise information and templates.

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Past Business Continuity Forum Meetings - Downloads

Oct 27^th – 5^th Nov 2009 - Residential Care Sector Event – Preparing for Emergencies

Presentation

Downloads available from our front page under Residential Care Homes section

Oct 22nd 2009 - Flood Fair

The presentations are not available from the event.

11^th June 2009 - Supply Chain Resilience

§ Supply Chain Security. A road hauler’s view - Peter Cullum, Head of International Affairs at the Road Haulage (large file! Pdf 1mg, available to attendees only)

§ Felixstowe Port, an integral part of the Supply Chain - Captain Gary Wilson, Head of Marine and Port Services - Hutchison Ports. (large file! Pdf 1.4mg )

§ How to achieve supply chain resilience - John Matthews MBCI, Consultant -Resilience Solutions. http://www.resiliencesolutions.org.uk (pdf 332k)

§ Learning Points

§ Information on how to do your supply chain vulnerability assessment. Use along with this supplier questionnaire (which can be modified to suit). More information in John Matthew’s presentation. (John is available should you wish for more in depth help. Contact him via his web site.)

§ Questionnaire to give to contractors. Questions to ask suppliers and case studies can be found on the previous page.

Past slides available on request

4th December 2008 - Communicating in a Crisis

8th October 2008 - Planning for Pandemic (Pandemic Flu)

16th June 2008 - Utilities & Emergency Services Workshop

20th November 2007. Inaugural Meeting

Forum Bulletins

2009/2010

§ May 09 (pdf 66k)

§ Aug 09 (pdf 164k)

§ Dec 09 (pdf 228kb)

§ Feb 10 (pdf 68kb) Latest!

2007/ 2008

· Winter (pdf 44k)

· Spring (pdf 59k)

· Summer (pdf 39k)

· Autumn (pdf 39k)

External Business Continuity Events

Business Continuity Week, 22nd-26th March 2010 See the BCI web site for ideas to raise awareness: http://www.businesscontinuityawarenessweek.org/

and join in live discussions on the web from the BC awareness website: http://www.thebci.org/BCAW2010activities.html

Training

Provided through NORMiT by the emergency planning unit of Norfolk County Council: http://www.normit.org/training/training.htm