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Finding 'ordinary' ways to build up local resilience
EMERGENCY PLANNING

Finding 'ordinary' ways to build up local resilience

By Jim Savege | 16 February 2026

By mobilising community groups, councils are building proactive ways of responding to emergencies that are decentralised, flexible, and deeply rooted in local strengths, says Jim Savege.

EMERGENCY PLANNING

What councils need to know about Martyn's law

By Nathan Emmerich | 12 February 2026

Nathan Emmerich looks at the role councils are playing during the implementation period of Martyn...

LEGAL

Councils are included in the class action against the Motorola-owned Airwave Network

By Clare Spottiswoode CBE | 15 December 2025

Local authorities are in line to receive a portion of any damages awarded for alleged unfair pri...

CYBER SECURITY

Major cyber attack hits London councils

By Dan Peters | 26 November 2025

Multiple London councils are believed to have been targeted in a major cyber attack, leaving resi...

EMERGENCY PLANNING

All of England's LRFs to take part in pandemic exercise

By Martin Ford | 11 August 2025

All of England’s Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) will take part in a simulation exercise designed ...

COVID

Councils demand greater recognition in emergency planning

By Martin Ford | 05 August 2025

The Local Government Association (LGA) has demanded recognition of councils as an ‘equal and trus...

COVID

Pandemic pandemonium

By Martin Ford | 31 July 2025

Exercises carried out to prepare for another potential pandemic have uncovered a litany of challe...

RESILIENCE

Building resilience from the ground up

By Helen Hinds | 21 July 2025

Skills and training are central to the delivery of the resilience agenda in local government, say...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Expecting the unexpected

By Stephen Gaskell | 17 July 2025

Five years on from the easing of Covid restrictions, Stephen Gaskell says the sector proved that ...

RESILIENCE

EXCLUSIVE: Resilience warning over shelter and evacuation plans

By Dan Peters | 10 July 2025

Emergency shelter and evacuation plans may be insufficient in a worst-case scenario crisis, Local...

EMERGENCY PLANNING

A capital alliance going beyond the surface

By Cllr Kieron Williams | 22 June 2025

Reducing the risk of disruption across London from surface water flooding is something which must...

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