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Nationally recognised standards to define the skills, knowledge and performance expected of those working in resilience and emergency roles. 

Exercise in a Box is a free resource which helps organisations find out how resilient they are to cyber attacks and practise their response.

The National Cyber Security Centre’s website provides advice and guidance, including on planning cyber exercises.

For emergency services and responder agencies

A guide for faith communities and local resilience forum partners who are involved in civil protection work.

VCS Emergencies Partnership’s website provides a collection of exercises, which organisations can adapt and tailor to their needs.

‘Learning to Adapt’

‘Learning to Manage Lessons’

Guidance on what local planners need to consider when developing flexible plans for evacuation and shelter.

Guidance for the identification, prioritsation, implementation, and embedding of lessons from exercises and emergencies

In this blog, National Emergencies trustee and 7/7 London bombing survivor Thelma Stober shares her views on the importance of learning lessons from past disaster survivors and how the UKRA is another step forward towards whole-society resilience.

In the presence of broad representation from across the resilience community, the UK Resilience Academy (UKRA) was officially launched on 28^th April by Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden, and Minister Abena Oppong-Asare.

JESIP’s (the Joint Emergency Service Interoperability Programme) Testing & Exercising page provides a range of resources including an Exercise Assurance Framework, an Umpire Evaluation Sheet and a Multi-Agency Debrief Template.

The National Risk Register outlines the most serious risks facing the United Kingdom.

JESIP Joint Doctrine (Edition Three) continues to provide a common way of working together to save lives and reduce harm in an emergency.

The latest edition of the global guide to good practice in business continuity.

The Governemnt Communications Service (GCS) Emergency Planning Framework.

Guidance on part 1 of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, its associated regulations and non-statutory arrangements.

The Northern Ireland (NI) Civil Contingencies Framework sets out NI arrangements for effective Emergency Management.

CONTEST is the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy. It’s based on 4 themes: prevent, pursue, protect and prepare.

‘Learning to Read Risks’

The Managing Exercises Handbook is one of a series of handbooks on the Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub. It provides guidelines for the design, planning, conduct and evaluation of exercises.

JOL (Joint Organisational Learning) Online, which is hosted on Resilience Direct, is the national repository for interoperability, national resilience lessons and notable practice across the UK.

The Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub is an open-source platform that supports and informs policy, planning, decision making and contemporary good practice in disaster resilience.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is a federal agency which helps the United States respond to and recover from disasters.

‘Learning In Action’

The UK Government Resilience Framework sets out how we will strengthen the systems and capabilities that support our collective resilience.

This guide explores how to anticipate public behaviour in a crisis.

A practical ‘hands on’ manual to support civilian and military audiences in the use of Red Teaming techniques

Helping emergency planners ensure communities are central to emergency planning, response and recovery.

Preparing Scotland is a set of national guidance documents to assist Scotland in planning, responding and recovering from emergencies.

Preparing Scotland is a set of national guidance documents to assist Scotland in planning, responding and recovering from emergencies. The purpose of this guidance is to provide a practical tool to assist in the planning, delivery and evaluation of exercises.

Guidance on what local planners need to consider when developing flexible plans for evacuation and shelter.

PRIMER provides a framework for crisis communications.

The Central Government’s Concept of Operations sets out the UK arrangements for responding to and recovering from emergencies.

Guidance for staff of responder agencies, particularly senior officers or managers involved in emergency response and recovery preparations.

Guidance on part 1 of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, its associated regulations and non-statutory arrangements.

Guidance covering key issues relating to data protection and sharing in emergency planning, response and recovery.

The Civil Contingencies Act (2004) Regulations (2005) describe the extent of the duties imposed on organisations under the Act, and the manner in which those duties are to be performed.

The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA), and accompanying non-legislative measures, delivers a single framework for civil protection in the UK.