Liverpool 'needs to invest in its emergency planning' following a terror attack and the impact of Covid-19.
A report into Liverpool Council ’s city corporate emergency management planning has identified that the local authority must “further understand the importance of learning lessons from previous incidents” such as the attack on Liverpool Women's Hospital last November.
The Civil Contingencies Act (2004) places several statutory duties on councils to prepare and maintain robust civil emergency response and recovery plans. The report, which will be discussed by Liverpool Council’s audit committee next week, identified that “the ongoing COVID-19 crisis remains, to date, the biggest challenge to peace time resilience.”
