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Lancashire Resilience Forum
Lancashire Resilience Forum – Preparing for emergencies
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Lancashire Resilience Forum (LRF) is a partnership of member agencies, including those defined under the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004 by responder ‘categories’:
- Category 1 responders are organisations that are directly involved in the response to an emergency. These responders are subject to a number of civil protection obligations.
- Category 2 responders are those who have a role to play in response but are less directly involved. The Act does not place such stringent duties on these responders but does require that they share information appropriate to managing emergencies and cooperate fully with the Local Resilience Forum.
The Lancashire Resilience Forum (LRF) partner agencies work together to ensure that if and when an emergency occurs, they are prepared to respond together and minimise any impact.
Community Futures’ involvement with LRF
Our Partnerships Manager, Joe Hannett, has been part of the Community Resilience Group in the LRF since November 2023. We are there to ensure the LRF supports rural communities to plan and prepare for and respond to emergency situations.
Read below for Joe’s comment on why Community Futures is involved and what we’re doing.
“While the Government’s Resilience Framework has strong principles, it is what is done in Lancashire by our emergency planning and response colleagues alongside communities which will make those words real and increase the resilience of our rural communities. There is so much that can be done by communities, individuals, businesses and parish councils and it does happen in many places. What we’re not seeing is a plan that connects all these activities and marshals resources effectively, and involving communities at each stage – instead we see the historic pattern of ‘we know best, we’ll tell you when the times comes’. That’s not good enough. Rural communities may be two hours away from an emergency response when the situation affects Lancashire, that’s a long time. A few people who are trained, practiced, equipped and capable could make all the difference. That’s what we are aiming for.“
What LRF do
Lancashire Resilience Forum are one of Local Resilience Forums across England established in response to the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004 to provide a new legislative framework for civil protection in the event of emergencies in the UK.
In the event of an incident, the partnership agencies that form the LRF join forces to:
- Consider the hazards that feature in Lancashire, assessing the impacts of the risk and providing this information to the public in a Community Risk Register.
- Create plans to help make the risks safer, setting out how they will come together to respond should an emergency happen, and how they can help people get back to normal afterwards.
- Ensure their response is coordinated when things do go wrong.
- Carry out training and testing to make sure they are ready.
- Identify lessons from incidents and exercises, learning as they go along to improve how they respond in the future.
Join the online Community Resilience Hub
Why you should join the Community Resilience Hub…
Through training and tailored support, Communities Prepared equips communities nationwide with the knowledge and confidence to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a range of emergencies, from flooding and severe weather incidents to pandemics.
You can join for free as a community member, a volunteer coordinator or an individual professional, gaining access to learning resources, online sessions and members forum.
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