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Local Resilience Forums

Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) bring together councils, police, fire, ambulance, the NHS and the Environment Agency to plan for and respond to emergencies. Find the partnership for your area.

England

38 Local Resilience Forums, based on police-force areas.

Avon & Somerset

Bath & NE Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire

Bedfordshire

Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

Cambridgeshire, Peterborough

Cheshire

Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester, Halton, Warrington

Cleveland

Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees

Cumbria

Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness

Derbyshire

Derby, Derbyshire

Devon, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly

Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth, Torbay, Isles of Scilly

Dorset

Bournemouth Christchurch & Poole, Dorset

Durham & Darlington

County Durham, Darlington

Essex

Essex, Southend-on-Sea, Thurrock

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Greater London (London Resilience)

32 London boroughs and the City of London

Greater Manchester

Ten Greater Manchester districts

Hampshire & Isle of Wight

Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, Isle of Wight

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Humber

East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire

Kent

Kent, Medway

Lancashire

Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Lancashire

Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland

Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Merseyside

Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral

Norfolk

Norfolk

Northamptonshire

North & West Northamptonshire

Northumbria

Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland

North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire, York

Nottinghamshire

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Staffordshire

Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent

Suffolk

Suffolk

Surrey

Surrey

Sussex

Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex

Thames Valley

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire (& Milton Keynes), Oxfordshire

Warwickshire

Warwickshire

West Mercia

Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Worcestershire

West Midlands

Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton

West Yorkshire

Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield

Wiltshire & Swindon

Wiltshire, Swindon

Scotland

Three Regional Resilience Partnerships (RRPs) coordinate local planning.

North of Scotland RRP

Highlands, Islands, Grampian, Tayside

East of Scotland RRP

Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife, Forth Valley, Scottish Borders

West of Scotland RRP

Greater Glasgow, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Argyll, Dumfries & Galloway

Wales

Four Local Resilience Forums aligned to the Welsh police areas.

North Wales LRF

Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham

Dyfed-Powys LRF

Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Powys

Gwent LRF

Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen

South Wales LRF

Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, RCT, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Vale of Glamorgan

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland uses a Civil Contingencies framework rather than LRFs — coordinated by The Executive Office with Emergency Preparedness Groups.

NI Civil Contingencies (TEO)

Northern Ireland-wide civil-contingencies coordination

Emergency Preparedness Groups (EPGs)

Regional multi-agency preparedness across NI

Official sources

Areas shown are for navigation. The authoritative, current contact list is maintained by the Cabinet Office on GOV.UK. Northern Ireland uses a Civil Contingencies framework rather than LRFs.

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