What is community resilience?
Community resilience is about communities and individuals harnessing local resources and expertise to help themselves in an emergency, in a way that complements the response of the emergency services.
Why is community resilience important?
Emergencies happen, preparing yourself and your family will make it easier to recover from the impacts of an emergency.
Being aware of the risks you might face, and who in your community might need your help, could make your community better prepared to cope with an emergency.
Local emergency responders will always have to prioritise those in greatest need during an emergency, especially where life is in danger. During these times, you need to know how to help yourself and those around you.
Principles of Community Resilience
Communities are self selecting
Communities need to act in support of the Emergency services
It is done by the people not to the people
Communities need to use local knowledge and existing networks
Communities need to raise the awareness of the risks
Benefits of Community Resilience
Resilient Community Features
Resilient Communities usually have the following features:
For more information contact: Emergency Planning Office on 01437 775661 or emergency.planning.unit@pembrokeshire.gov.uk
Or
DirectGov - Preparing for Emergencies
www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Dealingwith
Cabinet Office UK Resilience
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ukresilience.aspx
Emergency Planning Society
Informed Prepared Together
Community Risk Registers
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ukresilience/preparedness/risk.aspx
National Risk Register
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/reports/national_risk_register.aspx
Disaster Action