Marvin OnumonuChancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden has launched the ‘UK Resilience Academy’ to train thousands of workers in how to handle emergencies.
The academy in North Yorkshire will run courses for 4,000 people each year, covering topics like business continuity, crowd management, and crisis communications.
The new centre will train citizens, businesses, emergency services, armed forces and the civil service.
It will form part of a network working with the college for national security and the defence academy, now linked through a memorandum of understanding to share training.
McFadden also announced new software, called the risk vulnerability tool, which maps real-time crisis data and demographic information to help spot groups at risk in an emergency.
The tool has been made available to 10,000 ministers and civil servants and was developed by the national situation centre and the office for national statistics.
It will feed into Government decision making during future crises.
McFadden said: “Our first duty is to keep people safe – and through our Plan for Change, we are creating strong and resilient communities across the country.
“Today, we’re making a generational upgrade to crisis training for thousands of workers, and helping decision makers identify vulnerable groups in a crisis.
“This is all part of our plan to secure Britain’s future.”
