Planning with partners

East Sussex County Council is a member of the Sussex Resilience Forum (SRF) where we work with other local organisations to plan and improve our joint response to emergencies.

Find out what the top risks are in Sussex, how we work with partners to deal with them and what you can do to prepare by reading the SRF document Community information on risks in Sussex.

For more information about how the County Council plans to work with other organisations in an emergency, please see the documents below and the Sussex Resilience Forum website.

You can also download a community emergency planning toolkit and template on the Cabinet Office website.

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Protocol for the provision of mutual aid arrangements during an emergency (25k) How local authorities will support each other in an emergency (2 pages).
Sussex voluntary organisations reference document (47k) How we coordinate with the voluntary sector during emergencies (16 pages). (Note: updated arrangements for calling on voluntary sector support in an emergency are currently being developed by the Sussex Voluntary Sector Resilience Group.)
Anglo/French response (232k) Describes emergency planning arrangements between East Sussex County Council and Seine Maritime (17 pages).
Town and Parish Emergency Groups (186k) Emergency planning advice for town and parish councils (13 pages).
A Strategy for Community Based Emergency Planning (156k) How local communities can develop their own emergency plan and help themselves during an emergency (18 pages).
Recovering from emergencies – Sussex Resilience Forum Recovery Plan (307k) Following an emergency, local authorities and other organisations in Sussex work together with communities to help them get back to normality, support them through circumstances which may be difficult for a time – such as disruption to housing, education or community facilities – and explore opportunities to improve local areas. Produced September 2011 (49 pages)
Recovering from emergencies – SRF Recovery Plan, Equality Impact Assessment (152k) Report about the groups that the Sussex Resilience Forum Recovery Plan will impact upon. September 2011 (5 pages)