Business Continuity Plan template | AML Consultancy Solutions

About this document

What it’s for

A complete business continuity plan for a small or medium business. It identifies your critical activities and how quickly they must be restored, sets out who does what when something goes wrong, and gives step-by-step action cards for the most likely disruptions.

When to use it

Every business – most small firms that suffer a major incident without a plan struggle to recover
When insurers, lenders, customers or tenders ask for your continuity arrangements
Before you need it: test it at least once a year

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

Purpose and objectives
Scope
Roles and the Continuity Team
Business impact analysis
Invoking the plan
Incident response stages
Communications
Resources and recovery arrangements
Training, testing and review

Also included

Stage 1 – first hour: safety and assessment
Stage 2 – first 24 hours: continuity
Stage 3 – recovery: back to normal
Approval
Continuity Team
Call cascade
External contacts
Key customers and suppliers
Card 1 – Loss of premises (fire, flood, damage, no access)
Card 2 – IT failure or cyber attack (including ransomware)
Card 3 – Loss of key staff or high absence
Card 4 – Key supplier failure
Card 5 – Loss of utilities (power, water, phone, internet)
Card 6 – Severe weather, flooding or pandemic

How to complete it

Start with the business impact analysis in section 4 – it drives everything else
Fill in the team, contact lists and key supplier details in the appendices
Delete scenarios that do not apply and add any specific to you
Store copies off-site and in the cloud, and give the team printed action cards

Key points to check

Check your insurance covers business interruption for a realistic period
Make sure backups are tested by actually restoring data

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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Business Continuity Plan

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