Local Authority to Local Resilience Forum Lookup for England and Wales (August 2015)

Office for National Statistics data mapping English and Welsh local authority districts to their corresponding Local Resilience Forums. This lookup table, last updated in July 2026, facilitates cross-referencing between two key administrative and emergency response geographies. The dataset is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Aggregate local-level statistics to emergency planning regions based on the lookup mapping.
• Analyze the geographic composition of Local Resilience Forums based on constituent local authorities.
• Join datasets containing local authority codes with emergency response data based on the forum linkage.
• Validate administrative boundaries for cross-agency collaboration in civil protection.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Provides a clear mapping between two official administrative structures.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official administrative boundary definitions.

Time Range

Snapshot from August 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:17.100200; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales