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What is the Suffolk Resilience Forum?
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.
We are a non-statutory organisation and one of the country’s trailblazer Local Resilience Forums. This means we have received additional funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to test new approaches to strengthening local resilience, with a focus on integration, accountability and strategic leadership. Through the trailblazer programme, the SRF has expanded its team and is piloting new ways of working across the partnership.
This includes a dedicated Chief Resilience Officer, who provides strategic leadership for resilience across the partnership, supported by an enhanced SRF secretariat team.
- SRF Partnership Manager
- 3 x Risk and Resilience Officers
- Business Support Coordinator
The trailblazer programme also funds specialist roles to support resilience integration including:
- Communications Officer
- Climate Adaptation Officer
- Resilient Communities Officer
Find out more in Meet the Team
The SRF has also commissioned the Suffolk Office of Data Analytics (SODA) to support data development, helping the partnership use data more effectively in planning, preparedness and response.
Using this enhanced capacity, the SRF aims to strengthen resilience across Suffolk by:
- Enhancing multi-agency community resilience initiatives and expanding the Voluntary Communities Sector Emergencies Partnership membership in Suffolk.
- Increase preparedness and education through effective communications.
- Understanding climate adaptation and long-term risks in Suffolk.
- Create data dashboards to assist with planning and responses.
- Promote business resilience through the Business Resilience Network.
- Create capacity for SRF partners by supporting multi-agency plan leads and providing additional resources during responses.
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Suffolk Local Resilience Strategy 2024-2030The SRF is chaired by Becky Heginbotham-Blount, the Chief Resilience Officer for Suffolk. Becky provides strategic leadership for multi-agency preparedness, response and recovery, and works with partners to strengthen resilience across Suffolk.
She is supported by an Executive Steering Group, which brings together senior leaders from Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service, public health, the NHS Integrated Care Board, local authorities and Suffolk Constabulary.
With extensive experience in emergency planning and multi-agency partnership management, Becky plays a central role in supporting organisations to meet their duties under the Civil Contingencies Act, improving local capabilities and helping individuals and communities be better prepared for future risks.
Before joining the SRF, Becky worked in emergency planning for Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies, following 12 years with Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service as a Watch Manager Control.
Our Vision
‘To enable Suffolk to be as prepared and resilient as possible’.
We provide a routine partnership forum of responder agencies to maximise positive effects of integrated emergency management’
SRF Mission Statement
‘Working in collaboration with our partners through multi-agency co-ordination and co-operation, engagement with the wider Suffolk system focusing on prevention, preparation, response and recovery from major incidents’.
Our Objectives
- To promote cooperation between organisations in their preparation for response to a major emergency.
- To promote collaborative, cross-organisation training and exercise programmes, integrating this practice into the preparations of individual organisations.
- To provide a forum for the consideration of emergency response issues where more than one agency could be implicated.
- To support agreed courses of action where mutual benefit has been identified.
- To provide an opportunity for the exchange of information.
- To risk assess hazards within and to Suffolk.
Several agencies and organisations come together to form the Suffolk Resilience Forum, all with the common aim of ensuring that Suffolk is prepared for emergencies.
The voices of each individual organisation in providing strategic and operational guidance diversifies the scope of our knowledge, enabling the forum to perform its functions effectively.
The partnership consists of two groups of organisations that may be involved in an emergency response. We also work with other organisations who are not categorised under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 such as Military and voluntary organisations, who are listed under ‘other agencies’.
Category 1 and 2 Responder organisations work;
- Locally
- Regionally
- Nationally
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