About us
The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Resilience Forum partnership works with:
- emergency services
- government organisations
- voluntary sectors
We help protect the lives, property and wellbeing of residents and businesses. Our goal is to lessen the effects from emergencies.
Our emergency planning includes:
- working together with partners
- checking risks in our area
- making plans for emergencies
- giving advice during emergencies
- helping the public protect their property, the community and the environment
- supporting businesses and voluntary organisations
- preparing partners through training and exercises
LLR Resilience Forum partners
Category 1 responders
These are the main organisations that help during emergencies. They are responsible for keeping communities safe:
- Leicestershire Police
- Keeping people safe
- Looking after the scene and evidence
- Sharing information with partners
- Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
- Rescuing people
- Making an incident site safe
- Recommending exclusion zones
- East Midlands Ambulance Service
- Providing emergency treatment at the scene
- Co-ordinating the on-site NHS response
- Taking injured people to a local hospital, depending on their types of injuries
- NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board
- Improving health, wellbeing and life experiences
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
- Saving life and providing emergency treatment away from the scene
- Choosing receiving hospitals across the region if an emergency results in large number of casualties
- Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
- Ensuring continuity of community health services
- Providing care and support
- Local Authorities
- Representing the community
- Supporting emergency services
- Opening emergency centres
- Leading and co-ordinating the recovery process
- Environment Agency
- Environmental regulator with a wide range of roles and responsibilities
- Responding to incidents affecting the natural environment, human health or property
- UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
- Protecting communities from the impact of diseases, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents, and other threats
- NHS England
- Prioritising, commissioning and overseeing the delivery of health services
- British Transport Police
- Helping with train and rail network incidents
Category 2 responders
Co-operating bodies that are less likely to be involved in the planning. They may be heavily involved in incidents:
- Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
- Monitoring safety of dangerous processes and infrastructure
- Met Office
- Providing weather and climate information, warnings and advice
- East Midlands Airport
- Planning and preparing for site-specific incidents at and around East Midlands Airport
- Mining Remediation Authority
- Managing effects of past coal mining, mine water pollution and other mining issues
- Highways England
- Managing and improving England’s Road network
- Ensuring safer journeys
- Network Rail
- Maintaining the railway infrastructure in England, Scotland and Wales
- Cadent
- Keeping communities warm, safe and connected
- Responding quickly in a gas emergency
- National Grid
- Delivering gas and electricity to homes and businesses
- Severn Trent
- Operating across the Midlands and Wales
- Providing fresh, clean drinking water to homes and businesses
- Protecting the environment
- Anglian Water
- Operating in the East of England
- Providing water supply, sewerage and sewage treatment
Other key partners
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Leading on incidents of notifiable animal disease
- Military
- Supporting the civil authorities when they need an urgent and specialised assistance during a major incident