Get ready

What Be Ready says to keep in the boot, how to decide whether to travel at all, and what to do if the journey stops.

Why Be Ready asks for a mix of coins and notes as well as cards, how much, where insurance fits, and the scams that follow an emergency.

Three days of food that needs no fridge and no cooking, why cooking is the thing that fails, and what to do with the food already in the fri

A torch rather than candles, a charged power bank, the number to report a power cut, and what Be Ready says about solar batteries and load b

Three litres a person a day for three days, what else the water is for, how to make other water safer if you cannot store bottles, and how t

Blankets, layers and one warm room when the heating goes off, the checks to make before winter, and where help with heating costs is listed.

A radio, a power bank and numbers on paper, what a landline does in a power cut, and how to reach people or 999 when the mobile network is d

Ready-made formula and nappies, what children should know, the back-up arrangement for anyone who lives alone, and a grab bag for a pet or a

A first aid kit, repeat prescriptions ordered in time, a written list of doses, and a plan for any equipment that needs power or water.

The free register that tells your electricity, gas and water companies you need extra support in an outage, who qualifies, and how one regis

Which documents to copy, which numbers to write on paper, and how to keep them where you can find them in the dark and safe from water.

How the UK government's Emergency Alerts reach a phone without an app or a sign-up, which phones get them, what to do when one arrives, and

The decisions Be Ready asks a household to make in advance, from a fire escape route and a meeting point to who checks on whom when the phon

The government's Be Ready advice asks every household to be able to manage at home for three days, what that covers, and why three days rath