posted 9th June 2025
As local government reorganisation accelerates across parts of the UK, one vital question often gets sidelined: what happens to emergency planning and business continuity during the transition?
When boundaries shift, teams are merged, or councils disappear entirely, the risk isn’t just administrative confusion. It’s operational disruption — to command and control structures, risk ownership, response capacity, and the fundamental ability to respond when things go wrong.
From Local Resilience Forums to local authority gold leads, now is the time to ask:
• How will your statutory duties be met during the transition?
• Are your emergency plans and business continuity arrangements still fit for purpose?
• What does good look like in a new structure — and how do you get there?
At Applied Resilience, we specialise in helping councils and resilience partnerships navigate disruption and stay ready. We support LRF Chairs, secretariats, Chief Executives and resilience leads with:
- Independent readiness reviews
- Governance and delivery model design
- Scenario testing and options appraisal
- Business continuity reviews and embedding strategies
- Practical, strategic advice from people who’ve done it before
If you’re facing change — or responsible for leading others through it — we’d love to help.
Get in touch for a confidential conversation.
