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Dear Frances Stevenson

I confirm receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act and that we will respond within the statutory 20 working days.

Regards
Kerry

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Dear Ms Stevenson
 
Further to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act our response is as follows:
 

 1. The University has recently established a BCP Steering Group
 2. Support is given by the project management team
 3. The responsibility sits within a number of  colleagues’ job
descriptions
 4. We are currently reviewing our BCP and will adopt a new strategic
framework by the summer
 5. The new framework will have a review period each year along with the
risk register
 6. It is planned that the new framework will have an annual test
 7. We currently us our internal audit process
 8. Annually
 9. No

 
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Regards
Helen Johnstone
 
 
Helen Johnstone
Head of Information Assurance/Manager – University Strategic Projects
University of Worcester
Henwick Grove
Worcester   WR2 6AJ
 
Tel: 01905 855014
[2]https://www.worcester.ac.uk/informationa...
 
 
 
 
 
_____________________________________________
From: Frances Stevenson <[FOI #481821 email]>
Sent: 02 May 2018 09:58
To: Helen Johnstone <[University of Worcester request email]>
Subject: FOI18/79 - Freedom of Information request - Business Continuity
 
 
 
Dear University of Worcester,
 
1.      Is there a dedicated business continuity resource or team in your
organisation?
2.      If you have a dedicated business continuity resource, in which
department does it sit?
3.      How many employees have a dedicated business continuity role in
your organisation?
4.      Do you have tailored business continuity plans for each of your
departments and schools/colleges or one overarching business continuity
strategy/plan?
5.      How often do you review your business continuity plans?
6.      How often do you exercise your business continuity plans?
7.      How often do you complete an independent audit of your business
continuity arrangements?
8.      How often do you run exercises for your incident management
team/emergency response plan?
9.      Do you make use of any external shared services to support
business continuity planning within your organisation?
 
Yours faithfully,
 
Frances Stevenson
 
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