Our current approach to providing resilience is based around three levels: service resilience (both organisational and personal), community resilience and national resilience.

Service Resilience
We need to ensure we are resilient in providing our services. Being resilient means, we must plan to ensure we can still deal with normal activity whilst supporting a large-scale incident or one which may last several days. We need to ensure we have adequate resources to meet competing demands. As a fre service, we can be called upon to deal with fast paced, critical and/or traumatic incidents. Our staff are key to resolving such incidents. We must develop and support them to help strengthen their own personal resilience.

Community Resilience
We have all seen how emergencies can affect our communities, businesses, infrastructure and response organisations. Our resilience activity involves working with partners, communities, and businesses to successfully anticipate, assess, prevent, prepare, respond and recover from incidents. North Yorkshire has a well established and effective Local Resilience Forum (LRF). The LRF has multiple working groups comprising of multiple agencies which ensures we meet the duties outlined in the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004. We are well embedded in the LRF, and we play a key role in ensuring that the LRF are prepared for emergencies.

National Resilience
We provide support to national resilience through the maintenance and delivery of national assets. We provide:
• Two High Volume Pumps (Harrogate and Richmond);
• An Incident Support Unit (Acomb)
• A flood rescue boat (Selby)
• Waste fre tactical advisors
• National Inter Agency Liaison Offcers
• High Volume Pump tactical advisor
• Airwave Radio tactical advisor
• National flood advisors
• Wildfre tactical advisor

We maintain these national assets and undertake specialist training to ensure that they are available for a coordinated national response when requested. We also use them within our own area when needed.

Our Achievements

• We have played an active role as a member of the Local Resilience Forum and all its sub-groups.
•  We maintained operational resilience during periods of peak operational demand e.g., extreme weather events, wild-fire and localised flooding.
• During the national 999 outage we maintained a resilient operational 999 system through effective business continuity planning and exercising.
• We worked with national agencies and Fire and Rescue Services, local partners, contractors, and the local and farming communities during one of the largest wildfires in England. This approach to resolving the major incident was a true community response, which allowed us to maintain service delivery across the county and city of York, mitigating significant impact on our ‘Business as usual’ activity.

Areas of Focus

Over the period of this CRMP we will focus on:

• Increasing staff knowledge and awareness of procedures for low frequency incidents such as Marauding Terrorist Attacks (MTA) and fires in high rise buildings.
• Preparing for any changes to incidents due to climate change and new and emerging technologies.
• Continuing to work closely with partner agencies to fulfil the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum Strategy – Ready Together 2025 to 2030.
• Ensuring effective succession planning of our roles within the Local Resilience Forum to make sure we continue to offer best value.
• Developing a Community Asset Register and formalising contracts with third-party providers to support our response to wildfires and other Major Incidents.
• We will closely work with our partners to ensure we maintain suitable water provision across the service area