Emergency information, contacts and advice

What we ask you to do

We ask both residents and visitors to make themselves familiar with the general advice offered here on being prepared for coping with emergencies. We all hope that an emergency never happens but, if it does, there is some simple advice you can follow to try to minimize any effect it has on you. Even before an emergency takes place, there are steps you can take for you and your family's safety.

Above all, should you become involved in an emergency, the message is to listen to all the instructions you are given by the emergency services and Council staff and please do as you are asked.

• Prepare for an emergency
• Key numbers to keep
• ICE - In Case of Emergency
• Involvement in an emergency
• Getting information in an emergency
• Children at school during an emergency
• Coping emotionally
• Evacuation advice

The Government sent a booklet 'Preparing for Emergencies - What you need to know' to every home in the UK, in August 2004. The booklet contains practical advice on the steps you can take to help yourself and your family in the event of an emergency. to protect the country.

The Preparing for Emergencies website accompanies the booklet and provides current online advice covering:

• Guidance on how to prepare for a variety of emergencies that could occur
• What to do in the event of an emergency
• What the government is doing to protect the country