Decision Maker: Cabinet

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: Yes

Date of Decision: January 28, 2025

Purpose:

Content: RESOLVED:   1.    That Cabinet approves the CRMP for 2025-2030, ensuring that SFRS can begin implementing the service-wide strategy from April 2025 in a staged approach. Reasons for decisions:   SFRS has consulted both its staff and the public on the seven CRMP proposals, details of which were shared with them via a thorough communications and engagement campaign. The plans set out how the service will prevent, protect and respond to emergencies during 2025-2030, aligning resources to the right locations, ensuring vital equipment is appropriate and effective, and supporting the wider health and wellbeing agenda. The feedback gained during this consultation has shown that there is a majority positive ‘approval rating’ for the six proposals requiring an agreement/disagreement level, ranging between 62% to 76%. The analysis report (annex 3) was created by Surrey County Council’s (SCC) Research Intelligence Unit (RIU) following the consultation period. An audit of SFRS’s CRP (annex 2) has been conducted by Nottingham Trent University (NTU) to ensure accuracy and robustness. NTU are leaders in public research who led on the National Fire Chiefs Council’s (NFCC) National Risk Methodologies, reviewed the data and evidence used to develop the CRMP’s strategic aims and proposals. They confirmed that “…Surrey FRS has undertaken a robust process to develop the CRMP for Surrey”.   (The decisions on this item can be called-in by the Communities, Environment and Highways Select Committee)