Community Resilience Groups
The Moray Council have been working together with Community Councils to support Community Resilience Groups (CRGs) to develop preparedness in their area. CRGs are volunteers in your Community, who lead on developing and executing a local Community Emergency Plan. Although there is no statutory responsibility for communities to develop emergency plans, it is in the best interest of a community to identify risks and make simple plans on how they could support residents to respond to them.
An Emergency Plan is a document owned by the Community Resilience Group and outlines what they can do in an emergency situation to support local residents. CRGs are typically subgroups of the local Community Council but are also being facilitated through anchor organisations in some areas of Moray. CRGs do not do the work of the Emergency Services. Their Emergency Plans exist to complement a response delivery.
There are currently CRG and volunteers working in:
• Buckie
• Burghead & Cummingston
• Cullen
• Elgin
• Findhorn, The Park & Kinloss
• Forres
• Grange
• Keith
• Lossiemouth
• Portgordon
• Strathisla
If a CRG Emergency Plan is activated, they will communicate and work with Moray Council and are also a point of contact for local residents. Community Emergency Plans include details of volunteers so are not publicly available.
If you want to get involved in your Community Resilience Group, email: communitycouncil@moray.gov.uk
[Source: Moray Council]