Kathy Settle Email & Phone Number

Senior Adviser on strategic risk and emergency management, supporting Local Resilience Forums and overseas governments in building their resilience capability.

Senior Associate on strategic risk and emergency management, providing resilience training, especially to government departments, and consultancy advice

https://www.resilienceadvisors.eu/kathy-settle.html

The aim of the review was: ‘To review the implementation and operation of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, of the civil-protection structures it introduced and its associated regulations, guidance and key supporting arrangements, and to make recommendations for improvements.’The final report was published in March 2022. Further details can be found at:https://nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/2022/03/independent-review-of-the-2004-civil-contingencies-act/

Middle East

Supporting an overseas Government to build their resilience capabilities and preparedness for civil emergencies, including establishing the mechanisms to be used in planning for, responding to, and recovering from, emergencies.

Leading DIT’s digital function and responsible for developing the Department’s technology to support organisational change

Scoping a potential programme to support transformation in local government service delivery, including exploring making libraries the anchor institution for the social, cultural and economic life of a place.

Led the Libraries Taskforce since inception, with a remit to reinvigorate the public library sector in England (comprises 151 library services delivering 211m physical and 86m virtual visits with £771m expenditure per year). The Taskforce is a multi-agency body of organisations that provide leadership to, and delivery of, public library services. It is jointly sponsored by central and local government (through the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Local Government Association). This included: influencing service delivery decisions in 3,000+ libraries by 151 local government library authorities through national frameworks, good practice guidance and 1-2-1 interventions; and forming coalitions and brokering deals with partners to fund and deliver national programmes.

Government Digital Service

Deputy to the Chief Executive, jointly responsible for building GDS from <100 to 600+ people. Created and led a new digital policy and departmental engagement team, developing cross-government strategies with departmental digital leaders. This included: leading production of the first Government Digital Strategy; establishing and chairing the Digital Leaders Network that provided cross-government leadership to drive the digital agenda across Government; developing policies and delivery partnerships on Assisted Digital (supporting those offline to access digital services) and Digital Inclusion (supporting people offline to get online).

Government Digital Service

Role as above re Director

Civil Contingencies Secretariat

Recruited to CCS Executive Board to create a new team building capabilities and preparedness for civil emergencies across 1200+ local level responders (emergency services, councils, utility and transport providers, etc). This included: acting as CCS Duty Director in COBR, responding to emergencies including swine flu pandemic, flooding, terrorism, animal diseases and severe weather; and developing a new strategy for Community Resilience - supporting individuals and businesses to be better prepared for emergencies.