Whenever there’s an emergency in Scotland, a number of different organisations immediately start working together to tackle it.
Depending on the nature of the incident, this might include Police Scotland, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Scottish Ambulance Service, health boards, local authorities, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency or the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Resilience Partnerships
Working together, these organisations form a ‘resilience partnership’, which helps them to coordinate, collaborate and share information. Partnerships may also include organisations involved in the energy, telecoms, transport, and water sectors, as well as local or national volunteer groups.
Standing regional and local resilience partnerships meet year-round across Scotland to plan for emergencies and to take part in exercises to test those plans. The Scottish Government supports them with guidance and practical help through our embedded teams of Resilience Partnership coordinators.
The Scottish Resilience Partnership
The Scottish Resilience Partnership (SRP) is a core group of the most senior statutory responders and key resilience partners.
The group acts as a strategic policy forum for resilience issues, providing collective assurance to Ministers that statutory responders and key resilience partners are aware of significant resilience gaps and priorities, and are addressing these. It provides advice to the resilience community on how best to ensure that Scotland is prepared to respond effectively to major emergencies.
