Canterbury CDEM Group Plan

We want to make minor changes to extend the life of the Canterbury Civil Defence Emergency Management Group Plan as required by the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002. When the national emergency management system reform is completed, which we expect to be late 2022 and through into 2023, we will start the creation of a new Group Plan.

What we are proposing to update

• The current role of Māori and Iwi in emergency management in Canterbury - ensuring that the Group Plan accurately reflects how iwi are involved in Group governance and operations.
• Aligning our existing objectives to the National Disaster Resilience Strategy 2019-2029.
• Reflect a number of improvements to our collective capability to respond to emergencies - we have significant new capabilities that we didn't have in 2014, so we are recognising these.
• Adoption of the Coordinated Incident Management System version 3 - this is an updated Government standard that defines how public and private sector agencies work together in an emergency.
• Agency names and positions, as a number have changed since these were last reviewed in 2018.
• A number of minor clarity and readability improvements.

Since 2014, Canterbury has experienced, responded to, and we continue to recover from, a wide range of significant events. See below for a list of these.

Following reviews from these events, none have highlighted the need for significant changes to Canterbury's Group Plan - the arrangements have been well tested and have held up well, for now. However, significant change is coming.