The National Briefing on Societal Resilience - Issue 57

The latest National Briefing on Societal Resilience on behalf of the National Consortium for Societal Resilience (NCSR+) provides some highlights from the recent 4th National Conference on Societal Resilience held at The University of Manchester (24-25 February 2026).

Conference participants collectively addressed the theme of "Society in Resilience" including the topics:

• Children, young people and disaster risk reduction
• Families and intergenerational learning for resilience to disruption
• Civil society as a co-developed capability with resilience partners
•  Operation Water Outage

This briefing focuses on key issues arising from round table discussions across four facilitated conference sessions.