Free online flood engagement exercise

An exciting project has been launched by West Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP) with partners across the region to help Risk Management Authorities, (RMAs) and the wider community improve how they communicate during flood events.

The Communicating Flood Risk project aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems.

The iCASP team is facilitating a free, online, flood engagement exercise focused on raising awareness of flood risk and incident management during flood events.

The exercise aims to:-

Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way
Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management
Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk
Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time.

It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups.

Bookings for this online incident response flood engagement exercise are available from February-March. Each session lasts approximately three hours (including breaks) and the ideal number of participants per session is six, although organisations can make multiple bookings to accommodate larger groups.

Any learning from the project can be shared throughout communities and organisations and will be useful during flood incidents.

For more information and to register interest visit:

https://icasp.org.uk/2021/12/01/communicating-flood-risk-role-play-workshop/