About Us
The Northumbria Local Resilience Forum was formed in 2005 in
response to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. This Act
requires specific organisations across the Northumbria Police Force
area to work together to prepare, respond and recover from
different emergencies.
Our Aim and Objectives
The aim of the Northumbria Local Resilience Forum is
to facilitate multi-agency working to fulfill the requirements of
the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
The objectives of the Northumbria Local Resilience Forum
are:
- To facilitate co-operation between local responder
organisations such as the Police and Local Authorities
- To facilitate information sharing between local responder
organisations
- To assess the risk of emergencies in the Northumbria Local
Resilience Forum area
- To facilitate the development of multi-agency emergency plans
and arrangements
- To assist local authorities in promoting business continuity in
the local community
- To ensure that suitable arrangements are in place to warn,
inform and advise the public in the event of emergency
Our Membership
The Northumbria Local Resilience Forum membership is made up of
Responder organisations found within the Northumbria Police area
boundary. The Civil Contingencies Act divides local
responders into two categories, imposing a different set of duties
on each.
Those in Category 1, are those organisations at the core of the
response to most emergencies (e.g. emergency services, local
authorities, NHS bodies). Category 1 responders are subject to the
full set of civil protection duties. They will be required to:
- Assess the risk of emergencies occurring and use this to inform
contingency planning;
- Put in place emergency plans;
- Put in place Business Continuity Management arrangements;
- Put in place arrangements to make information available to the
public about civil protection matters and maintain arrangements to
warn, inform and advise the public in the event of an
emergency;
- Share information with other local responders to enhance
co-ordination;
- Co-operate with other local responders to enhance co-ordination
and efficiency; and
- Provide advice and assistance to businesses and voluntary
organisations about business continuity management (Local
Authorities only).
Category 2 organisations (e.g. Health and Safety Executive,
transport and utility companies). These "co-operating bodies" are
less likely to be involved in the heart of planning work but will
be heavily involved in incidents that affect their sector. Category
2 responders have a lesser set of duties - co-operating and sharing
relevant information with other Category 1 and 2 responders.
Category 1 and 2 organisations come together to form Local
Resilience Forums (based on police areas) which help co-ordination
and co-operation between responders at the local level.
The bulk of Part 1 of the Civil Contingencies Act was brought
into force in November 2005 (the duty on local authorities to
provide advice and assistance to business and voluntary
organisations about Business Continuity Management commenced in May
2006).This includes ‘blue light’ responders such as the Police,
Fire and Rescue Services, Ambulance Services and Local Authorities,
NHS bodies, Environment Agency and voluntary organisations who
support emergency management in the area.
For more information on the various duties and responsibiities
see
Emergency Preparedness.
A
complete list of all of our partners can be found by clicking this
link
Legislation
Our partner organisations are governed by various pieces of
legislation for implementing and managing resilience. These
place statutory (compulsory) and non-statutory duties on these
organisations. Key pieces of legislation which govern our
partner organisations includes:
Civil Contingencies Act 2004 – for more information click
here
NEWS
Follow this link to see news on activities, events and
conferences in the Northumbria LRF area
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