Community Risk Management Plan 2024-28

Our IRMP for 2020 to 2024 was based on the following seven objectives: 

• reduce fires and their consequences
• reduce road traffic collisions and their consequences
• improve health and wellbeing
• protect the community and environment from the impact of major emergencies
• manage our resources effectively
• manage our people effectively
• govern the business effectively

To evaluate if we are successfully meeting these objectives, we monitor and report on numerous performance measures. Although the full cycle of this IRMP has not yet finished, we can report that: 

• domestic dwelling fires are at their lowest number for five years and are predicted to fall further
• despite an increase in the number of road traffic collision incidents we have attended, 2022/23 saw a 19% decrease in the number of people killed or seriously injured
• a full review of the co-responding capability has taken place, and an ongoing funding agreement has been secured for 2024/25 and beyond
• we have implemented the recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and taken part in large multi-agency exercises through the local resilience forum in the last two years
• we have reviewed the duty systems of our wholetime stations and will implement the findings in the coming year. We are also in the process of reviewing all prevention, protection and support functions.  
• the Waddington training site purchase has been completed, and a project is underway to develop the site
• view our annual statement of assurance

We also consulted on and changed how we report our response standards. The old percentage success against expected time of arrival has been replaced with an average response time based on incident type. 

We feel this is easier for the public to understand and more in line with how the Home Office reports attendance times nationally. 

Our performance against our response standards this year has been: