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Local Resilience Forum

The Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Local Resilience Forum is the senior management group for the co-ordination of emergency planning within Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. The Forum meets regularly, is led by Nottinghamshire Police, and is made up of senior managers from the principal emergency planning and response organisations. It does not have a separate legal personality and does not have powers to direct its members.

The Forum is concerned with overall direction and policies of emergency planning and preparation in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. The Forum also forms the basis of the strategic multi-agency group that leads the overall response to any major emergency.

The main Forum meets at least once every six months, although meetings can be held more frequently if LRF members agree that is necessary.

Aim and Objectives

The Strategic Aim of the Local Resilience Forum (LRF) is:

To establish and maintain effective multi-agency arrangements to respond to major emergencies, to minimise the impact of those emergencies on the public, property and environment of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, and to satisfy fully the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act.

The Local Resilience Forum’s specific objectives are to:

• Agree on joint strategic and policy approaches relating to Nottingham & Nottinghamshire’s preparedness and response;
• Approve the Community Risk Register, and ensure it provides a robust basis for planning;
• Ensure that appropriate multi-agency plans, procedures, training and exercises are in place, and outstanding gaps identified.
• To direct and oversee the activities of working groups as they are established and allocate tasks to them as appropriate.
• Receive reports from the working groups on current threat levels, gaps in planning and progress on actions tasked;
• Ensure that appropriate resources are made available to working groups to fulfil statutory and task-based responsibilities;
• Co-ordinate the individual approaches and responsibilities of each organisation to ensure that they complement each other and dovetail with partners’ arrangements;
• Consider the implications of legislation, national initiatives and decisions of the Regional Resilience Forum for the Local Resilience Forum area.

The purpose of the LRF process is to ensure effective multi-agency collaboration in delivery of duties under the Act. In particular, the LRF process should deliver:

1. the compilation and publication of  a Community Risk Register agreed risk profiles for the area, through a;
2. a systematic, planned and co-ordinated approach to encourage Category 1 responders, according to their functions, to address all aspects of policy in relation to:

           i) risk;

           ii) planning for emergencies;

           iii) planning for business continuity management;

           iv) publishing information about risk assessments and plans;

           v) arrangements to warn and inform the public; and;

           vi) other aspects of the civil protection duty, including the promotion of business continuity management by local authorities; and

  3.  support for the preparation by all or some of its members of multi-agency plans and other documents, including protocols and agreements and the co-ordination of multi-agency exercises and other training events.
   4.  Encourage and enhance resilience in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

You can download a leaflet about the LRF here in Word or pdf format.

Nottinghamshire Prepared Leaflet
Nottinghamshire Prepared Leaflet