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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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