Local Resilience Forums and Community Risk Registers

One of the ways cooperation and information sharing is achieved is through Local Resilience Forums (LRFs). In London there are six LRFs, bringing together groups of five or six boroughs.

One key area of work undertaken by LRFs is the maintenance of Community Risk Registers (CRRs). The CRR describes the risks in an LRF area, and assesses the likelihood, and impact of a risk occurring. This forms the basis for emergency planning workstreams in the area. Use the links below to download the Community Risk Register for your area. 

London Boroughs in each London Local Resilience Forum

North West London LRF [ PDF 397kb] - Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow
North Central London LRF [ PDF 401kb] - Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington
North East London LRF [ PDF 363kb] - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest
Central London LRF [ PDF 380kb] - City, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Westminster
South East London LRF [ PDF 364kb] - Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Lewisham
South West London LRF [ PDF 350kb] - Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton, Wandsworth

The LRFs are chaired by local authority chief executives and their membership includes all category one responders. Category two responders attend under their right to invite/right to attend, other interested partners including the voluntary sector, business and the military are also involved.

The LRFs have established a new tier of collaboration between category one and two responders. This tier bridges the gap between regional and borough level forums. The London Regional Resilience Forum (LRRF) sets the policy for London, and the LRFs oversee the local implementation of that policy.

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Risk Assessment

Under the Civil Contingencies Act, Category one responders have a duty to assess the risk of an emergency occurring within or affecting their geographical area. This duty is discharged at the Local Resilience Forum level and is a collaborative evaluation of risk used to inform emergency planning, business continuity and warning and informing the public.

The purpose of the duty is to:

• ensure that Category one responders have an accurate and shared understanding of the risks they face;
• provide a rational basis for prioritising objectives, work programmes and resources;
• enable Category one responders to assess their plans and capabilities;
• facilitate joined-up local planning, based on consistent planning assumptions;
• enable Category one responders to provide an accessible overview of the emergency planning and business continuity planning; and
• inform and reflect regional and national risk assessments.

In London the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority has the lead responsibility to ensure the maintenance of a Community Risk Register in each Local Resilience Area in London.

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Risk Assessment work to date

Risk working groups incorporating category one and two responders have been established to assess the likelihood and impact of hazards in each London resilience area.

Summaries of the social, geographic and economic features of each area have been produced. Potential non-malicious hazards have been identified and lead assessors will carry out detailed risk assessments.

The six working groups have undertaken impact and likelihood assessments for a range of risks provided by central government guidance. Impact is assessed across four categories - Health, Social, Economic and Environmental factors, using a scoring system of 1 to 5, where 1 is insignificant and 5 = catastrophic.

Likelihood scores are provided on a national basis by lead agencies and government departments.

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Are terrorist threats assessed?

Malicious threats (ie terrorism) are not dealt with by this process of risk assessment but are constantly assessed and kept under review through the day to day work of category one responders (particularly the Police).

Lead Assessors

Category one organisations work on specific hazards in each LRF area. For consistency, Lead Assessors have been co-ordinated across the six Local Resilience Forums in London.

Organisations have been allocated hazards which sit naturally within their areas of responsibility (for instance major fires and explosions have been allocated to the Fire Brigade, and flooding to the Environment Agency).

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