The North Yorkshire Resilience Forum prepares and delivers plans to deal with emergencies across the county. The Forum is made up of executive officers from the emergency services, health agencies, Environment Agency and local authorities. There are Resilience Forums all over the country based on police geographical boundaries.

 

The North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum works with other regional and national groups to make sure that the county is prepared to cope with any type of emergency and has appropriate plans in place to deal with it.

 

Local Resilience Forums are a legally constituted body established by the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. The Act divides responders into two groups, Category 1 and Category 2. The duty to plan and respond to emergencies is placed on those organisations identified in the Act as Category 1 responders.

 

 

The Civil Contingencies Act places a duty on category one responders to plan for emergencies and to keep the public informed both before and during an emergency. It also requires them to publish a community risk register of the risks faced by residents and those visiting and working within the County.

 

To download a short guide to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Adobe Acrobat pdf 328kb), please use the link below.