In Part 1 of this series we laid out the ‘three-legged stool’ of underlying institutional resilience, proactive response, and the external factors over which Sentinels have no control. At the risk of being reductive, we’ll call this ‘luck’. It is this factor which we’ll investigate in this piece. How devastatingly has the virus taken hold? How did national and local policy-makers react, with new regulation, moratoria, cash protection for households and businesses? What has been vaccination availability and uptake? And on how many fronts, perhaps against climate-driven crises, does the institution have to fight at once?
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A Turbulent Spring: the First Three Months of Sentinel Reports from a Crisis-Laden Year (Part II)
The first piece in this series focused on the direct impact of the pandemic on the Sentinels themselves, including their staff, product offerings, communications with their customers, and operations. This second installment zooms out to look at the Sentinels in relation to the broader financial, policy, and regulatory systems that surround them, and how the Sentinels have coped with: liquidity and solvency challenges, liaising with funders, lobbying policy-makers, and understanding and implementing fast-changing rules.
