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EMERGENCY PLANNING
Exclusive: Government 'risks repeating Covid mistakes' in war preparedness
By Martin Ford | 30 October 2026
Amid launch of 1,000 day ‘mission’, resilience expert warns continued failings in national emergency planning could lead to repeat mistakes.
EMERGENCY PLANNING
Emergency preparedness must go beyond survival kits
By Heather Jameson | 29 October 2026
Effective community resilience requires local leadership, inclusive emergency planning and truste...
COMMUNITIES
Patient community funding builds long-term resilience
By David Williams | 21 October 2026
David Williams explains why building stronger communities requires patient funding.
LATCOS
Local government reorganisation: Keeping services options open
By Justin Galliford | 14 October 2026
Norse Group’s Justin Galliford looks at how partnership can help councils preserve choice through...
LOCAL AUDIT
Local government audit: Rebuilding assurance is a more arduous job than clearing the backlog
By Iain Murray | 12 October 2026
Rebuilding local audit assurance is essential to financial resilience, accountability and public ...
EMERGENCY PLANNING
Planning for the worst
By Martin Ford | 22 September 2026
As the UK faces a myriad of large-scale threats that only grows longer with each passing year, ho...
REORGANISATION
Building resilience beyond reorganisation
By Caroline Green | 21 September 2026
LGR may be paused, but stronger relationships, insight and capacity can still drive lasting refor...
EMERGENCY PLANNING
Prepare for disruption
By Kurtis Toy | 16 September 2026
When digital systems fail, local government becomes the operating system, says Kurtis Toy.
RESILIENCE
Building resilient communities before the next crisis
By Andrew McClelland | 27 August 2026
Creating more resilient communities is a human imperative as well as a financial one, say Duncan ...
CYBER SECURITY
Councils' vulnerability to cyber attacks highlighted
By Martin Ford | 29 July 2026
English councils are more vulnerable to cyber attacks than a year ago, according to annual analys...
FINANCE
Rewiring local government from demand to prevention
By Kim Wright | 16 July 2026
Kim Wright says shifting from crisis response to prevention presents significant financial and ot...
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