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Community Resilience Programme

What is the Government doing to build and enhance community resilience across the UK?

The Civil Contingencies Secretariat leads the development of national guidance on community resilience and individual resilience.

It works with government departments, public, private and voluntary sector bodies to deliver a programme of work to achieve greater individual and community resilience across the UK.

The Government’s community resilience programme aims to:

• Increase individual, family and community resilience against all threats and hazards;
• Support and enable existing community resilience, expand and grow these successful models of community resilience in other areas;
• Support effective dialogue between the community and the practitioners supporting them;
• Raise awareness and understanding of risk and local emergency response capability in order to motivate and sustain self resilience;
• Evaluate the success and articulate the benefits of community resilience; and
• Provide a shared framework to support cross sector, regional and local activity in a way that ensures sufficient flexibility to make community resilience relevant and workable in each local area/community.

Outputs from initial stakeholder consultation Winter 2008/9 [PDF 24 pages, 238KB].

Who oversees this work?

The Community Resilience Programme Steering Group oversees and scrutinises the work of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat on community resilience.

The steering group is made up of members of the public involved in community resilience, representatives from voluntary organisations and relevant government departments.

Terms of reference and membership of the Community Resilience Programme Steering Group [PDF 3 pages, 46KB]

The Community Resilience Programme, including the steering group, is accountable to the relevant Cabinet Committee which oversees resilience work across Government.

For more information on the Community Resilience Programme please get in touch via community.resilience@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk or by telephone on 020 7276 5295/5294.

You can also write to us at - Community Resilience Team, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, 22 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2WH.