Continuity support is a completely new and fresh approach for the development and implementation of business continuity plans. If you have been given responsibility for developing a business continuity plan or overhauling your existing arrangements, you might appreciate a little help at various stages. For many organisations devoting full-time resources to business continuity plan development and maintenance just isn’t possible. If business continuity isn’t your “day job” you might find it helpful to have some resources and advice available when you need them.

Continuity Support delivers the tools, including business continuity plan templates for each key part of your plan and provides the remote support you need to help you get the job done. Our business continuity plan templates, online reference library and e-mail based support line provide information, advice and guidance when you need it - at a reasonable cost.

The business continuity plan templates provide you with a structure to start building your plans; the on-line reference library helps you locate information on specific business continuity issues and our email based support line is there to provide advice and guidance on any specific issues that you might have regarding business continuity plan development.

All of the Continuity Support services are accessed via a dedicated website that will provide you with the tools and support that you need implement or overhaul your business continuity programme.

Business Continuity Plan Templates

From the website you can access and download templates that will assist you to develop each aspect of your plan, including:

• A spreadsheet based Risk Assessment template to help with risk and exposure assessment


• A Business Continuity Policy template to help you draft a business continuity policy


• An organisation chart template template to help you define the key areas of responsibility for plan management


• Incident Management and Business Activity Recovery plan templates


• Templates to assist with setting up an incident management room


• A spreadsheet template to help you manage the results of plan testing


• A Business Continuity project plan template to help you identify and schedule the key plan development activities

Support

We've made our business continuity plan templates as easy to use as possible - however you may require some assistance or need to ask some questions. So you have access to unlimited e-mail support for 6 months from the date of subscription to Continuity Support. Expert assistance is just a click away!

You will also get online access to further resources that will help in the development of your plans - such as flood risk assessment resources, etc. These will complement the development of your plan by helping you to understand some of the issues you need to plan for and to locate resources if the worst does happen.

Our online Knowledge Library is available to help you with guidance and best practices for specific business continuity issues.

Terms of Service

Continuity Support is a low risk, low cost service which is available for a single, low fee and will give you the practical support you need to create a credible business continuity plan for your organisation. There is no further obligation on you to continue with further subscriptions once your support period is over.

Workshops – an optional extra…

Our workshops help to get the whole project team up to speed. For a simple, fixed fee, our consultants can run one or more workshops at key stages of the project to ensure your staff are fully briefed and aware of the tasks they need to perform. We currently offer five workshops:

• Business Continuity Plan Development. This provides an overview of the key stages of Business Continuity Plan Development and introduces attendees to activities they will be undertaking at various stages of the project. This workshop prepares project team members for the tasks ahead and, with the benefit of a planning template, helps create a business continuity project plan that meets your specific requirements


• Risk & Impact Assessment; Using our risk assessment template, this workshop facilitates developing an understanding of the risks to be managed, the business priorities to be addressed and generally sets the overall business rationale for the business continuity plan


• Incident Management. Attendees are provided with an insight into the activities required to manage the initial stages of a major incident. Using several of our incident management templates, we will explain the various aspects of Incident Management including communications strategies, establishing a crisis management centre and post incident impact assessment


• Resilience and Recovery Planning. This workshop focuses on the recovery of core business activities and helps attendees to identify the principle attributes of business activity recovery planning. Issues such as identifying required physical and information resources, skills availability, supplier management etc. are covered, using our Business Recovery plan template as a point of reference throughout the workshop


• Exercising and testing. This final workshop helps attendees to develop testing approaches to prove the plan. In this session attendees will learn about the different types of test, principles of test design and key evaluation criteria.

Continuity Support gives you access to highly skilled and capable resources to support the development of your Business Continuity programme. You get the help you need, when you need it and within your budget