Resilience Academy

The UK Resilience Academy has announced the appointment of Rosehanna Chowdhury as its new Chief Executive Officer.

The government has released a new set of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Resilience and Emergencies, designed to boost the UK’s organisational and societal resilience to known and unknown threats, such as climate change or a COVID-19-style pandemic.

The government has launched the UK Resilience Academy to better protect communities up and down the country in the face of national crises, helping to secure Britain’s future as it delivers on the Plan for Change.

As part of the government’s response to the first part of the Covid-19 inquiry report, the Resilience Minister told the House of Commons last week that a national pandemic response exercise will take place later in the year, preceded by the launch of the UK Resilience Academy in April.

The Cabinet Office has published new Exercising Best Practice Guidance under the banner of the UK Resilience Academy, a commitment that stems from the 2022 National Resilience Framework to ‘reinvigorate’ the National Exercising Programme and expand the existing offer from the Emergency Planning College.