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State Protection Gap Risk Management – Financial Foundations for Resilience
15 October 2021Lord Toby Harris, Chair, National Preparedness Commission, and Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group, provide new thinking on how insurance could reduce the impact of all significant risks, and… Read more
Whole-of-Society Preparedness: Finland’s approach
07 October 2021Ed Persson, an Executive Assistant with the National Preparedness Commission, examines Finland’s approach to providing national preparedness, which has some lessons for the UK. The Security Strategy In 2017… Read more
Future Proofing the UK’s Critical Subsea Cable Infrastructure
24 September 2021As an independent island nation, the UK is heavily dependent on the uninterrupted provision of communication and power services, the vast majority of which is delivered by subsea cables. But… Read more
How do we harness the power of local?
20 September 2021Bruce Mann starts the debate on building a ‘resilient society’ as part of the National Preparedness Commission’s Independent Review of the UK’s Civil Contingencies Act and its supporting civil protection… Read more
Building better resilience to environmental risks
19 September 2021Tom Oliver, Professor of Applied Ecology at the University of Reading, and Ally Lewis, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of York, examine the concept of ‘environmental justice’ and… Read more
Operational resilience in financial services
15 September 2021Paul Williams, Head of Division, Operational Risk and Resilience at the Prudential Regulatory Authority, and Anne Wetherilt, Senior Adviser at the Bank of England, consider the impact of the new… Read more
Learning that can save lives
09 September 2021This report by Lianna Roast from the Disaster Management Centre at Bournemouth University looks at how lessons from major incidents can be translated in to real-world change and asks how… Read more
Response to Call for Evidence from the Integrated Review
09 September 2021In response to the UK Government’s Call for Evidence in connection with the Integrated Review, the Chair of the National Preparedness Commission, Lord Toby Harris, has written to the Paymaster… Read more
Testing resilience to hybrid threats: a real-time case study
19 August 2021Larna Brooks and Ed Persson, Executive Assistants with the National Preparedness Commission, provide an overview of a Friends of Europe report titled ‘Testing resilience to hybrid threats: a real time… Read more
New Review of London’s Preparedness to Respond to a Terrorist Attack
06 August 2021Five years on from his 2016 review, Chair of the National Preparedness Commission, Lord Toby Harris has been asked by Mayor Sadiq Khan to conduct a new wide-ranging review of… Read more