Our 2026 - 2030 Consultation
A CRMP is a four-year strategic plan that identifies all foreseeable fire and rescue risks and sets out how we will use our people, utilise prevention work and protection activities and emergency response to keep people safe.
We plan how to remove, reduce, or mitigate the risks our communities face every year. Our plans include deciding where and how to use our resources.
It is important to us to take into account what you think about the impact of any changes. Our consultation opens on 18th February and closes on 13th May.
This year we are asking questions in relation to the following four areas:
1. Emergency Response
We’re committed to making sure our emergency response is strong, reliable, and ready for the future. This means having the right people and equipment in the right places, so we can respond quickly and effectively when you need us most. We will review where our fire engines and specialist vehicles are located, check and maintain robust response times, improve on-call firefighter availability, update plans for extra support during busy periods or major incidents and make our emergency call handling more reliable and efficient.
Question 1: Do you support our approach to delivering a stronger, more resilient emergency response?
2. Strengthening Collaborations
Working together makes us stronger. Over the next four years, we’ll look for new ways to collaborate with others where it can improve efficiency and deliver improved services for our communities. Our focus will be on strengthening partnerships with regional and national fire and rescue services, other emergency services, and Local Resilience Forums partners. We will explore opportunities such as joint training, shared fire control systems, coordinated support for major incidents, access to specialist expertise and collaborative work to help vulnerable residents. By working together, we can improve resilience, deliver better value for money and provide the best possible service for our communities.
Question 2: How important is collaboration with other organisations to improve efficiency and effectiveness?
3. Community Safety and Arson Reduction
Keeping our communities safe is a top priority. Over the next four years, we’ll review and update our approach to community safety and reducing arson to make sure it reflects changing risks. Our goal is to reduce the impact of deliberate fires on both the service and the people we serve. We will tailor our prevention work to emerging risks, ensure it delivers value for money, and focus our resources where they have the greatest impact. Our priorities will include improving how we engage with children and young people, managing fire risks in prisons, tackling anti social behaviour and deliberate fire-setting, reducing arson such as vehicle fires and helping communities become more resilient to deliberate fire incidents.
Question 3: Do you support our approach to minimise the impact of deliberate fires on communities?
4. Supporting Our People
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Over the next four years, we’ll continue to prioritise the health, safety, and wellbeing of our workforce so they can deliver on our promise of “safer people, safer places.” We want to make sure our team remain fit, healthy and highly skilled. That means looking after both physical and mental health, providing vital support, and building resilience. Regular health checks for firefighters will remain a key part of this approach, alongside new initiatives to keep our people safe and supported. Key areas of focus will include strengthening fitness support, upgrading fire engine designs and equipment, enhancing staff health and wellbeing checks, exploring greener fuels for breathing apparatus training, improving decontamination processes, modernising buildings and facilities and ensuring easy access to Occupational Health services.
Question 4: How important is investing in health, safety and wellbeing of our workforce?
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