Recommendation MAI-148: LRF staffing and resources

From Manchester Arena Inquiry: Volume 2: Emergency Response, published 3 November 2022.

Recommendation

The Home Office should consider, together with local resilience forums, how they are to have sufficient staff and resources to enable them to function effectively.

Jurisdiction: UK-wide

In brief (written by this site)

The Cabinet Office reported in February 2026 that work on the recommendation remained in progress, explaining that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government had selected five local resilience forums in England to join a trailblazer programme testing models of accountability, leadership and assurance (Cabinet Office, Feb 2026). The UK Government had accepted the recommendation in full in November 2025, when the department first recorded that same progress position (Cabinet Office response, Nov 2025; Cabinet Office, Nov 2025).

Sources

Cabinet Office, Feb 2026

Cabinet Office response, Nov 2025

Cabinet Office, Nov 2025

AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.

Government response

Accepted UK Government

14 Nov 2025

Response document: Manchester Arena Inquiry recommendations (GOV.UK page linking to the Manchester Arena Inquiry Recommendations Dashboard)

Speaker not recorded. Source: Cabinet Office, Manchester Arena Inquiry Recommendations Dashboard (government response status), 14 November 2025

Accepted in full

Delivery

Cabinet Office says in progress (27 February 2026)

MHCLG has selected a group of five local resilience forums in England to join the Stronger LRF trailblazer programme, which will launch in spring 2025. These are Cumbria LRF, Greater Manchester LRF, London LRF, Northumbria LRF and Suffolk LRF. This programme is a key mechanism for testing out different models of strengthening LRF accountability, leadership and assurance.

From: Manchester Arena Inquiry Recommendations Dashboard

Earlier statement on delivery (1)

Cabinet Office (14 November 2025)

From: Manchester Arena Inquiry Recommendations Dashboard, original version (data file)