# The Town and Country Planning (Former RAF Airfield Wethersfield) (Accommodation for Asylum-Seekers etc.) Special Development Order 2024, Paragraph 25: Multi-Agency Forum

Extent: E+W

(1) The Home Secretary must establish a group of persons (the “Multi-Agency Forum”)—
(a) nominated by the persons and bodies specified in sub-paragraph (2) to represent them, in response to an invitation to each of them from the Home Secretary;
(b) to meet—
(i) for the purpose specified in sub-paragraph (3);
(ii) regularly, and in any event not less than once in every two calendar months, throughout the period in which the Order land is used to accommodate service users.
(2) The persons and bodies to be represented on the Multi-Agency Forum are—
(a) each of the following that have functions in respect of the Order land or part of it—
(i) a fire and rescue authority (as defined in section 1 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004) (fire and rescue authorities));
(ii) a local planning authority;
(iii) in so far as they are not within sub-paragraphs (i) or (ii), a county council, district council, or parish council;
(iv) an integrated care board established under section 14Z25 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (duty to establish integrated care boards);
(v) a chief officer of police;
(b) the UK Health Security Agency;
(c) the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities;
(d) East of England Strategic Migration Partnership;
(e) a voluntary or charitable organisation providing information and assistance to service users;
(f) any other person or body that the Home Secretary considers it appropriate to invite to be represented on the Multi-Agency Forum.
(3) The purpose of the Multi-Agency Forum is to facilitate the exchange of information and views between the Home Secretary and the persons and bodies represented on the Multi-Agency Forum about interactions between the performance of their functions and the Home Secretary’s performance of relevant functions in relation to resident service users.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/411/schedule/3/paragraph/25 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-former-raf-airfield-wethersfield-accommodation-for-asylum-seekers-etc-special-development-order-2024/schedule-3/paragraph-25
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