Flooding and community resilience
- Evidence
- Health inequalities
- Learning and development
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Event details
- Date and time: 22 July 2025,
About the event
This webinar covered the national and local context in relation to flooding and community resilience.
We also heard from the Somerset River Authority and Somerset community Flood Cafes.
What was covered:
- What is flooding?
- Why does it matter?
- Flood risk in the UK
- Key agencies responsible
- How flood alerts are triggered and issued
- Local response and dissemination
- Challenges and improvements
Presenters
- Meg Coakeley – Health Protection Manager, Public Health, Somerset Council
- Brodie Walker – UWE Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Health Emergency Resilience and Response Champion
Recording of webinar
Organiser information
- Contact name:Emily Hutt
- Email:emily.hutt@somerset.gov.uk