Last month the fifth UK Resilience Lessons Digest was published by the Emergency Planning College. ‘Learning to Manage Lessons’ synthesises findings from a range of reports and inquiries including, in this edition, the Covid-19 Inquiry Module 1 report and the final Grenfell Tower Inquiry report.

It looked at more than 1,000 lessons, grouping them under five key themes: lesson implementation, lesson identification; lessons system, strategy and storage; lessons embedding; and a learning culture.

The Digest also notes that our resilience system needs to move further from ‘learning lessons’ to ‘lessons management’ through from the experience of incidents to implementing improvements learned from them.

These are all areas that we will be looking at progressing in JESIP across the next year in our policy, training, assurance and communications work.

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