News & Insights

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

‘Learning from Cyber Incidents’

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

Weather has always played a large part on outdoor events. At least thirty major music events were postponed or cancelled around the world, due to extreme weather in 2023 alone.

Weather has always played a large part on outdoor events. At least thirty major music events were postponed or cancelled around the world, due to extreme weather in 2023 alone.

In 2022 the Cabinet Office undertook a statutory Post-Implementation Review of the Civil Contingencies Act (2004). The review recommended that the Met Office be granted Category 2 Responder status.

‘Learning to Adapt’

‘Learning to Manage Lessons’

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.

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.

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 this article, Resilience Capability Lead Bhavick Valand discusses the Kelly Review and the lessons learned from the events surrounding Heathrow’s preparedness for and response to the North Hyde substation fire in March 2025.

‘Learning to Read Risks’

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.

‘Learning In Action’

‘Learning Together’

The British Standards Institution (BSI) and the Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College held an exclusive and official launch for the latest Organisational Resilience Standard- BS 65000.