Community Resilience

Community Resilience is important as emergencies do occur and preparing yourself, your loved ones and protecting vulnerable persons in your local community will make it easier to recover from the impacts of an emergency or serious incident.

Awareness of the risks that exist, and who in your community might need support, could make your local community more resilient and better prepared to deal with an emergency or serious incident. Local emergency responders might have to prioritise those areas and persons in greatest need during an emergency, especially where life is in danger such as in severe winter conditions, a flood or a virulent flu pandemic or maybe even a combination of any two. During such stressful times, individuals, families and local communities will need to know how to help themselves as well as their neighbours.

The Council’s Community Resilience programme has therefore been created as a tool for use by Cheshire East Council and its associated town and parish councils’ to provide assistance to local communities within the borough.  The Community Resilience programme seeks to raise risk awareness and harness local resources and expertise that will complement the response of the Council and the emergency services in a Major Emergency or Serious Incident. 

As part of strengthening community resilience the needs and support of vulnerable people have also been addressed by way of providing a vulnerable persons strategy to identify such persons in a crisis situation.

Community Resilience Plans

Cheshire East together with Cheshire Constabulary has worked with Knutsford and Middlewich Town Councils as well as with Weston and Basford Parish Council in piloting their own individual Community Resilience Plans.

• Cheshire East Community Resilience Plan Template (PDF, 189KB)
• Knutsford  Town Council - Community Resilience Plan (PDF, 1.34MB)
• Middlewich Town Council - Community Resilience Plan (PDF, 1.87MB)
• Weston and Basford Parish Council- Community Resilience Plan (PDF, 1.81MB) 

Additional guidance is available from Government’s Cabinet Office UK Resilience website on Community Resilience Guidance.

Should you require any further information or assistance please do not hesitate to contact Martin Grime 01244 973866 or Jim Robinson 01244 973789 alternatively, speak to your Local Area Partnerships Manager who has also been closely involved with developing this programme.