1. Emergency Planning, A Dark Art Considered Fetish or Friend, Some personal thoughts…
A talk by Gavin Macho

2. Health Warning These are my opinions
I am not representing Cardiff Council, the WLGA or any other organisation
I am also reflecting on my own experiences, it’s not scientific and if it is critical of anyone, it’s me…

3. Aims
To consider whether Emergency Plans help or hinder in the development of a Resilient Society
To examine what might be considered to integrate Resilience into Local Government and so into Society as a whole
To consider How we might achieve Continuity in an Age of Austerity

4. Objectives
To look at Plans and how they can be considered Fetish or Friend
How can we reach out and influence our Communities: Through Plans or other means…?
Who will be our Ambassadors into the 21st Century

5. Something to Consider
‘No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy’, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
‘Make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails, throw away the plan’, Captain Cold

6. Fetish or fet·ich [fet-ish, fee-tish] noun
an object regarded with awe as being the embodiment or habitation of a potent spirit or as having magical potency
any object, idea, etc., eliciting unquestioning reverence, respect, or devotion: to make a fetish of high grades

7. Friend Calling Card Sign Post Measuring Stick Revolving Door
Source of Income

8. Fetish Gold, Silver or Bronze Acronym It’s Secret… See you in court
The late Mr…

9. Friend Everyone knows your name Everyone knows where you live
All your plans have been reviewed and tested
All your new colleagues are briefed on induction
Money flows in from all your plan writing

10. Fetish The world changes, you don’t Everyone does it differently
Can I put up a shed on Saturday
You build a table, but not brings chairs

11. A change of Emphasis perhaps
How do we know what use our plans are?
Peer Review
Public Review
Reach out to the Wider World
Champions
Jingles
Slogans

12. Plans or Procedures - or maybe something else?
What do we need
Who to ask
What to do
Where to go
How to be

13. The next Generation Students and academics Schools and Children
New Media
Greater co-operation and co-ordination
Universal process and interoperability
Volunteer Support

14. Local Government Rules
Divorce from the fixation of the event
Greater Development of Resilience
Integrate into mainstream education
Populate the new digital age
Engage our Communities
Use our Academic Resource
Embrace Review and Audit
Work together

15. Any Questions? Thank You