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About 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. 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.