Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Community Wellbeing and Safety

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/152

Contact: Jason Crapper, Area Manager

Jason.crapper@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by the Chief Fire Officer and Director of Community Safety (CA25)

The information contained in this report is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed categories

Paragraph 4 – Information relating to any consultations, negotiations, or contemplated consultations or negotiations, in connection with any labour relations matter arising between the authority or a Minister of the Crown and employees of, or office holders under, the authority

and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Cabinet are RECOMMENDED to Support the Fire and Rescue Cover Model being taken forward to public consultation with a view to authority being delegated to the Chief Fire Officer and Director for Community Safety Services (CSS) to undertake a 12-week employee, stakeholder and public consultation on the proposals and to report back to Cabinet thereafter.

Recommendations approved.

RESOLVED: that the public be excluded for the duration of item 25 since it is likely that if they were present during that item there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) and specified below in relation to those items and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Cabinet received a report on a proposed Fire and Rescue Cover Model aimed at improving resource deployment, response times, and workforce resilience.  The proposed initiatives would undergo a 12-week consultation process involving the public, employees, and stakeholders.

Councillor Jeny Hannaby, Cabinet Member for Community Wellbeing and Safety, presented the report.

The Chief Fire Officer and Director of Community Safety answered a number of questions regarding the proposals outlined in the report.

Councillor Hannaby moved, and Councillor Leffman seconded the recommendations, and they were approved.

RESOLVED to Support the Fire and Rescue Cover Model being taken forward to public consultation with a view to authority being delegated to the Chief Fire Officer and Director for Community Safety Services (CSS) to undertake a 12-week employee, stakeholder and public consultation on the proposals and to report back to Cabinet.