Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2016/039

Contact: Richard Smith, Group Manager, Strategic Risk & Assurance Team Tel: (01865) 855216

Report by Chief Fire Officer (CMDDL4).

This report sets out our new draft Cummunity Risk Management Plan (CRMP) 2017-22 for consultation 10 October 2016 to 9 January 2017. The plan shows how Oxfordshire Fire & Rescue Service (OFRS) has identified, assessed and evaluated the risks. The CRMP is required by the Fire & Rescue National Framework Document 2012. 

OFRS also proposes a number of projects to be included within the Fire Authority’s Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP) draft action plan for the fiscal year 2017-18.  The proposals summarise areas where the Service’s Senior Leadership Team believe service improvements and/or greater value to the wider OCC corporate priorities may be achieved. To meet the requirements of the CRMP process, each proposal will be supported by evidence, validating both their inclusion and their contribution to improved community outcomes and community/firefighter safety.  Similarly, each proposal recognises the prevailing economic constraints.

OFRS has transformed itself from an organisation that just deals with fire response to one that also covers preventative and wider rescue work and, as a consequence, we have succeeded in reducing incidents dramatically over the years. The proposed projects for the CRMP Action Plan 2017-18 reflect the changing nature of risk and demand within the county and recognises the wider role that OFRS will need to continue to undertake in the future.

The proposals, if approved, will be adopted in the draft version of the CRMP 2017-22  and CRMP Action Plan 2017-18 and will be subject to wide ranging consultation from 10 October 2016 to 9 January 2017.

The Deputy Leader is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)            approve the draft CRMP 2017-22 strategic document and proposed projects within the draft 2017-18 Action Plan for consultation; and

(b)            request thatthe Chief Fire Officer reports back to Cabinet with feedback and any amendments following the consultation.

Recommendations agreed.