Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Community Services & Safety

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/119

Contact: Paul Bremble, Group Manager – Strategic Risk & Assurance Tel: 07990 780805

Report by Corporate Director, Commercial Development Assets and Investment (CA9).

The 2018 Fire and Rescue National Framework requires each Fire and Rescue Authority to produce a publicly available Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP). Within Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service (OFRS) we have called this our Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP) to make it more meaningful to the public.

Our current CRMP is due to End in March 2022 so the production of a new CRMP has taken place which will run from April 2022 to March 2026. The CRMP is subject to public consultation which will take place for 12 weeks from 22nd September 2021.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to accept and adopt in the final version the Community Risk Management Plan 2022 - 2026, for public Consultation.

Recommendations agreed.

Cabinet had before it the draft Community Risk Management Plan for 2022-26 to approve to go out to consultation.

Councillor Neil Fawcett thanked officers for producing the draft in a shorter timescale than initially envisaged due to the timing of the next inspection.  The plan was mostly about the assessment of risk and the response to that.

The consultation process with staff was exemplary with significant participation.  The service itself had a good track record of long-term prevention policies.

It was hoped that this new plan will be more accessible and will receive greater feedback than before.

Councillor Duncan Enright asked why there was not more in the plan on response to extreme weather events.  Councillor Fawcett responded that the framework was set down by national government and it was partly dependent on what could be usefully monitored.

Cabinet Members expressed their pride in the service and appreciation of the wide range of services provided by the Fire and Rescue Service as well as their emergency response.  The Chair asked the Chief Fire Officer to pass the comments on to his staff.

RESOLVED: to accept and adopt in the final version the Community Risk Management Plan 2022 - 2026, for public Consultation.