National Resilience Standards for Local Resilience Forums (LRFs)
A set of individual standards for LRFs to consistently identify good and leading practice, and help self-assure their capabilities and overall level of readiness.
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A set of individual standards which are intended to establish a consistent and progressive means for Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) and their constituent local responder organisations to self-assure their capabilities and overall level of readiness, and to guide continuous improvement against mandatory requirements, good and leading practice.
These standards do not introduce any new duties on emergency responders. They set out expectations of good and leading practice for LRFs, which build on and complement statutory duties under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) and other relevant legislation.
The standards have been developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, a range of other Government Departments and Agencies, the Devolved Administrations, the Emergency Planning College, the JESIP team and professional institutions. Critically, they have been drafted and developed with local emergency responders, and as a result they reflect a broadly-based and consensus view of ‘what good looks like’, and what LRFs should be looking to implement, achieve and be able to demonstrate.