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The Northumbria Local Resilience Forum is not, itself, a
statutory body but each of its members have statutory duties under
the Civil Contingencies Act, 2004, to co-operate and work together
to identify the risks likely to or actually affecting
Northumbria, publish their assessment of those in the Community
Risk Register and make necessary contingency plans to prevent,
mitigate or deal with impacts of those risks (About us). You can see examples of these plans
in our Library section. Some are, due to the confidential content,
not available to the public.
The Forum itself does not have any personnel or workforce
or resources and cannot therefore, as a body, respond to any
emergency incident but it can, through its assessments and
pre-planning processes ensure that the member Responder bodies are
well placed to give assistance to the Northumbria communities when
required and offer mutual aid to each other when required and
possible.
The Forum is able, through its structure and arrangements, to
facilitate the inter-agency working required, within Northumbia and
across its border and nationally, to give effect to the
various plans for dealing with the identified risks and promote
awarweness through making those plans available to the public
through this website and other communication media.
When an Emergency has impacts which cross local authority
boundaries, or is of such a scale that individual Responders cannot
deal with the issues alone, the Forum may come together as a
Stategic Co-ordinating Group (SCG) to provide a
multi agency co-ordinated response to the threats and impacts. The
SCG will normally be Chaired by the Police or other
appropriate lead agency until the emergency is over and
the
Recovery Phase will then be lead by the relevant Local
Authority or Agency.
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