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A panel debate to discuss the reasons behind the launch of the National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+], and hear from members on why it is such an important initiative and what they hope to achieve.

The response and recovery to COVID-19 has been a whole-of-society effort where every community has played a crucial role. To maintain this outpouring of goodwill, local government and voluntary organisations have been discussing how to renew their efforts on community resilience to ensure that a positive legacy of the pandemic is a more cohesive, risk-aware, and prepared society that can work with local government to enhance its own local resilience.

In the UK, this ambition was galvanised by the government’s recent Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy which outlined ambitions on ‘whole-of-society resilience’ and which encouraged an integrated approach to building national resilience.

In response a, abbreviated to NCSR+, has now been initiated by Professor Duncan Shaw from Alliance Manchester Business School and Ben Axelsen from the Thames Valley Local Resilience Forum to pursue the ambition of whole-of-society resilience outlined in the Integrated Review. Membership of the consortium includes almost all local authorities in the UK along with key resilience partners.

To mark its official launch - which is being held on the same day as the UN’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction - you are invited to this special panel debate which will discuss the reasons behind the launch and hear from members on why it is such an important initiative and what they hope to achieve.

Time

14:00 - 15:30 (GMT+1)

Panellists

• Professor Duncan Shaw, Alliance Manchester Business School
• Ben Axelsen, Co-Chair of NCSR+, Thames Valley Local Resilience Forum, England
• Joan McCaffrey, Local Government Civil Contingencies, Northern Ireland
• Kevin Murphy, The Office of the Committee for Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Affairs, States of Guernsey
• Ellie Greenwood, Senior Adviser, Local Government Association
• Clare Rudall, Business in The Community Wales
• Marie Hayes, British Red Cross, Scotland Director