The Suffolk Resilience Forum (SRF) is a multi-agency group that provides strategic and operational guidance and support on the planning for multi-agency responses to a major incident.

The SRF is the principal mechanism for multi-agency cooperation under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and its boundaries are based on local policing boundaries.

The SRF is not a formal organisation nor does it have powers to direct
its members. At the highest level, the SRF provides a mechanism for Chief Officers of responder agencies to agree on the coordination, information sharing and co-operation of individual areas so that a subsequent multi-agency response and recovery is:

-Risk based.
-Pre-planned.
-Embedded within individual area Business/Service Plans.
-Allocated appropriate and trained resources.
-Exercised at appropriate levels and frequency.
-Validated from an internal and external perspective.
-Flexible to respond to changing environments or emergency situations.
-Cost effective and community focused.

Detailed partnership work is undertaken via the regular fortnightly working days, ‘Working on Wednesdays’ (WOW), by all local responders and through a limited number of Working Groups. In any year changes to priorities for work are consensually agreed by the SRF.

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