DCRF Forum September 2025
Devon Community Resilience Forum holds a twice-yearly, all-day Forum event where we bring resilience and emergency planning experts together to provide advice and information.
In October we met at the Beehive Centre in Honiton with representatives from the following organisations:
- East Devon District Council,
- Devon County Council,
- Environment Agency,
- Devon and Somerset Fire & Rescue,
- BT Digital Voice,
- PCE Tech Ltd
- National Grid.
Their presentations are below. Several other emergency planning experts contributed from the floor, including from Devon Highways team, Teignbridge, and Mid Devon District Councils and Devon and Cornwall Police.
Programme
Questions and concerns were captured during the day and during a Q&A session. You will find the key questions and panel responses on the link to the right.
The day was introduced by the Vice-Chair of Devon Communities Together, Renee Smithens.
Exercise Maple
The morning was taken up with a desktop emergency exercise based around a severe weather incident. The slides setting out the incident are below. Delegates worked in groups to consider their responses to various stages of the emergency.
Afternoon Panel Presentations
The afternoon included several short presentations from the following organisations:
Devon County Council Emergency Planning
Devon and Somerset Fire & Rescue
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