Civil Resilience
Civil resilience in the United Kingdom
What to have at home, what each hazard means, who does what and who to call.
Key pages
- Three days at home
The government's Be Ready advice asks every household to be able to manage at home for three days, what that covers, and why three days rather than one.
- Power cuts
What a power cut does to a home, who restores the supply, how the government plans for a regional failure, and what to have ready before one.
- Flooding
The four sources of flooding, what the three Environment Agency warning levels mean, how to sign up, and what to do before, during and after water enters a home.
- Emergency alerts on your phone
How the UK government's Emergency Alerts reach a phone without an app or a sign-up, which phones get them, what to do when one arrives, and the warnings you do have to sign up for.
- Priority Services Register
The free register that tells your electricity, gas and water companies you need extra support in an outage, who qualifies, and how one registration covers all three.
- Household emergency plan
The decisions Be Ready asks a household to make in advance, from a fire escape route and a meeting point to who checks on whom when the phones are down.