About the DRP

The Derbyshire Resilience Partnership provides strategic oversight and co-ordination of emergency planning in Derbyshire in accordance with the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. Its purpose is to ensure effective individual Category 1 responses and multi-agency collaboration to fulfil the statutory duties placed upon us by the Act.

Structure

Strategic Group

The Derbyshire Resilience Partnership (DRP) strategic group meets four times a year and is chaired by Clive Stanbrook, Deputy Chief Fire Officer of Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service

Members of the DRP strategic group are at executive level with sufficient seniority within their organisation/sector to make decisions and commit resources.

Programme Management Board

The Derbyshire Resilience Partnership (DRP) Programme Management Board manage the business of the DRP, providing a forum for day-to-day decision making and allocation of resources on behalf of the DRP.

Working and Task & Finish Groups

Various groups are established to co-ordinate and produce multi-agency emergency response plans, training and exercising for a specific reason or theme.

Roles and responsibilities of individual members

To attend DRP meetings or, where necessary, to send a deputy who is empowered to take decision.
To reflect the views of the organisation/sector that they represent in meetings and be sufficiently briefed and able to make decisions.
To ensure that there are communication mechanisms in place within the organisation/sector that they represent to enable information about the priorities and decisions of the DRP to be disseminated.
To act on what the DRP has collectively agreed.
To Influence any consequent changes to policy development/service delivery in their own organisation and sector.
To influence the alignment of mainstream budgets within their own organisation/sector to key priorities.
To develop mutual aid plans within the DRP to support individual agencies as necessary.
To ensure that the organisation/sector they represent have appropriately trained and competent staff who are empowered and enabled to undertake roles in planning and response to emergencies at the operational, tactical and strategic levels.

Last updated: 25 Mar 2026, 5:59 p.m.