Government Offices work with local partners to ensure that regions are able to respond to large-scale incidents either within or bordering their regions.
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Partners include:
- local authorities
- emergency services
- military
- voluntary sector
- transport and utility providers
- business sector.
A key element of our work is to support the Regional Resilience Forum
(RRF), the body that sets the strategic agenda for civil protection in the
region. We provide the secretariat for the RRF and also works closely
with central government to ensure that the North East region is fully
engaged in emergency planning at a national level.
