News & Insights

The UK Government’s Cabinet Office and Serco, the provider of services and support to the UK resilience community and governments internationally, are delighted to announce that Rosehanna Chowdhury has joined today (Monday 22 September) as the Chief Executive for the UK Resilience Academy (UKRA).

‘Learning from Cyber Incidents’

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

‘Learning in Community’

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.

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.

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

‘Learning to Manage Lessons’

‘Learning to Adapt’

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.

In this article our Resilience Capability Lead for Preparedness, Joshua Isherwood, explores how and where the Spending Review 2025 is embedding strategy for resilience, to ensure a strong and robust society.

This article by our Associate Willie Baker recollects first-hand what happened that morning from the perspective of an officer on the scene. The atrocities of the day, what they did to save those people affected and how they tried to reduce any further casualties.

In this blog post our Resilience Capability Lead for Crowd and Events Safety, Ben Crabb, uses the analogy that crowds are like fluids to suggest ways of potentially improving crowd management.

In this article our Resilience Capability Lead for Organisational Resilience, Bhavick Valand, explores solar events which cause powerful geomagnetic disturbances capable of disrupting communications, satellite navigation, and even power grids. A sobering reminder that space weather can reach deep into the systems that underpin modern life.

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 post our Resilience Capability Lead for Preparedness, Joshua Isherwood, reviews a recent newscast in the COBR unit of the Cabinet Office.

Tuesday 28th April 2026 marked 1 year since the UK Resilience Academy was launched by the Cabinet Office in partnership with Serco. Our mission has been to help deliver a better prepared and resilient society, through world-class, accessible, training and education, and convening relevant conversations.

Watch our video, made in celebration of the occasion, where we explore what we have achieved over the last year and what the future holds.

The UK Resilience Academy (UKRA), part of the Cabinet Office and delivered by Serco Limited, is pleased to announce that it has been recognised as an Assured Service Provider under the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Cyber Incident Exercising (CIE) scheme.

‘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.