Applied Resilience provides a fully outsourced resilience function to local authorities, NHS organisations, Category 1 and 2 responders, and other public sector bodies — replacing an in-house emergency planning, EPRR, or resilience team with a comprehensive, expert-led managed service.
A complete EP and BC function — with a dedicated account manager who knows your organisation, your plans, your risk profile and your people. Behind them sits the full Applied Resilience team: no cover risk, no single point of failure, and the surge capability of a whole team the moment an incident demands it. When salary, National Insurance, pension, leave and sickness cover are factored in, most organisations find this delivers significantly greater capacity — and significantly greater resilience — at lower overall cost than an equivalent in-house role.
Currently acting as the fully outsourced emergency planning function for eleven local authorities, and providing supplementary resilience services to a wider range of councils, NHS organisations and healthcare bodies. An established, proven model across multiple sectors.
Real incident experts — at the end of the phone.
The Challenge
The Structural Challenge
A statutory obligation demanding sustained resilience capability — a specialist function difficult and costly to staff well.
The challenge is the same across all public sector organisations: a statutory obligation demanding sustained, expert resilience capability; a specialist function difficult and costly to staff well; and the constant risk that when a key officer leaves, the knowledge, relationships, and capability they held go with them.
Applied Resilience solves all of these problems simultaneously — replacing an in-house team with a managed service that provides continuity of expertise regardless of internal change.
The Knowledge Risk
When a key officer leaves, the knowledge, relationships and capability they held go with them. Applied Resilience eliminates this risk.
Emergency planning capability is concentrated in a small number of individuals. When those individuals leave — through retirement, resignation, or restructuring — the knowledge they hold is lost.
Applied Resilience provides continuity of expertise across the entire partnership. Our team spans multiple organisations and sectors, and the knowledge we develop is embedded in our practice — not in individual post-holders.
Safe and Legal From Day 1
For organisations undergoing LGR, there is a clear government expectation that all new unitary authorities are safe and legal from day one.
For organisations undergoing Local Government Reorganisation, there is a clear government expectation that all newly created unitary authorities are safe and legal from day 1 — meaning resilience arrangements, emergency plans, and business continuity frameworks must be fully operational from the moment the new organisation comes into existence.
Applied Resilience is currently supporting councils through the Surrey LGR process, ensuring both ongoing statutory compliance through transition and day one readiness for successor organisations.
Partnership Tiers
Whether you are an emergency planning lead managing day-to-day preparedness or a chief executive accountable for organisational resilience, each tier stands alone or combines as your priorities develop. Applied Resilience is here to provide confidence, control, and continuity — whatever challenges you face.
Full Partnership
The comprehensive offer — covering the entire resilience portfolio: emergency planning, business continuity, training and exercising, LRF representation, and 24/7 retained incident support.
Reduced Hours Partnership
Core statutory compliance, plan maintenance, and 24/7 retained incident support, with reduced training and exercising scope.
Strategic Training & Advisory Partnership
Structured training, exercising, and knowledge-transfer combined with strategic advisory support and 24/7 retained incident support.
All tiers are flexible — hours, scope, and outputs adjusted to match your needs, flexing up or down as those needs change. All pricing available on application, scoped to the complexity and scale of your organisation, the scope of the work, and your risk profile and budget.
Which partnership tier is right for your organisation? Contact us to discuss your requirements and we will design a model that fits your risk profile, statutory obligations, and budget.
Frequently Asked Questions
Talk To Us
Ready to explore the Fully Outsourced Resilience Partnership? Arrange a no-obligation conversation with one of our senior team. We will listen to your current arrangements, your risk profile, and your capacity pressures — and be direct about where we can add genuine value, and where we cannot.
