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APPENDIX 8PROTOCOL FOR CLOSURE OF ROADS –HIGHWAYS / POLICE LIAISONTO BE AGREED WITH GWENT POLICE AND HIGHWAYS – AWAITING AGREEMENT38
APPENDIX 9DISRUPTIVE SNOW CONDITIONS –COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNITY CONFIDENCE PLANAimThe aim of the communications plan is to communicate accurate and up-to-dateinformation to employees, members of the public, schools, emergency services,voluntary sector, local businesses, Elected Members, CMT.Objectives• To protect and enhance the reputation of the Council.• To reassure the public by emphasising key, consistent messages.• To focus communications on frontline services – winter maintenance service,school closures, refuse collections, social care arrangements• To reassure all communities that the Council is working with its partners for thepeople of Blaenau Gwent• To encourage balanced and accurate reporting by the media• To consider community confidence in all communicationBlaenau Gwent Corporate Communications TeamA member of the Communications Team will sit on the Severe Weather IncidentTeam, and also on the Emergency Response Team if the incident escalates.Role – Corporate Communications Team• To be a conduit for information arising from media enquiries and media coverageinto the Severe Weather Incident Team / Emergency Response Team to aiddecision-making.• To ensure consistency of messages and ensure local messages are in line withWales and UK-wide messages• To create and advise on media and communications strategy, including broaderimplications, such as community and internal communications and the needs ofparticular audiences, groups of people or stakeholders• To brief senior staff, Councillors, Directors on communications issues/ messages• To nominate spokespersons, where required• To circulate local internal and external communication messages• To advise on local communications issues• To act as the hub for staff communications with regard to service provision, snowpolicy etc.39
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