14 & 15 October, 2010
Wilton Park, Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex, BN44 3DZ, UK

Experienced national reporters, broadcasters, commanders and press officers come together to provide authentic and tested operational and strategic communications training. Tailored to fit the roles of senior directors, emergency planners or communications professionals, CSARN's Crisis Communications modules pitch attendees directly into the eye of the storm, giving them the critical skills sets to turn a crisis into an opportunity, enabling you to confidently impress and reassure your target audience.

Please contact kerry.firth@csarn.org to find out dates, the course curriculum and tutor biographies. Classes for public and private sector clients, or a mixture of both (for example, across a business continuity forum or Business Improvement District) can also be arranged.

Police teams, local authority planners, Fire & Rescue services are increasingly looking to partner business to widen capacity, knowledge-share and develop shared responses to major incidents. CSARN's Safer Business Engagement Masterclass gives public sector security practitioners the inside track on how business and other major employers carry out: corporate security and manguarding; business continuity; IT security and resilience; Human Resource management; trauma management; and risk management. The course develops ideas around building stronger public-private partnerships around preventing, managing and recovering from multi-hazards. The course ends with a field-trip to learn how business integrates these many oscillating human and information components together - and how cross-sector functionality can be strengthened. Modules will include:

• Company structures and how a modern business works
• Impact of a contracting economy upon emergency planning; How to get the Board on board
• Multi Hazards approach to risk management and business continuity
• Terrorism and business communities
• Cyber and information security
• Protocols; engaging business and optimising public / private partnerships
• Field study visit – tour of security systems in a commercial zone

Please contact kerry.firth@csarn.org to find out dates, the course curriculum and tutor biographies. Classes for public and private sector clients, or a mixture of both (for example, across a business continuity forum or Business Improvement District) can also be arranged.