Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service congratulated for good performance
Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue service maintained or improved its performance in almost all areas, with the service graded as good in keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks, the fire inspectorate has said.
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Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023–2025: Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has graded Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue service performance across 11 areas. It found that the service was ‘good’ in 10 areas and ‘adequate’ in one area.
HMICFRS said the service continues to identify risk well and has improved how it works with its communities to understand their differing needs. It also has good systems in place to inform the public about ongoing incidents and to help keep them safe during and after incidents.
Inspectors said that the service is good at responding to fires and other emergencies, with the service’s overall availability of fire engines being over 93 percent. It also said staff have a good understanding of how to command incidents safely.
The service is also improving its alignment of activity to risk, but inspectors found one key area for improvement, which was to monitor its risk-based inspection programme and make sure a robust process is in place to prioritise the highest risk.
His Majesty’s Inspector of Fire and Rescue Services Lee Freeman said:
“It was a pleasure to revisit Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, and I am grateful for the positive and constructive way in which the service worked with our inspection staff.
“We were pleased to see the team’s progress since our 2021 inspection, maintaining or improving their performance in all areas, and I commend them for the changes made. For example, the service has increased its prevention activity, meaning it is on track to meet its target of 15,000 safe and well visits in a year by 2025. It has also increased its productivity in almost all areas of work.
“In this report, we highlight one area for improvement on prioritising the highest risks in its risk-based inspection programme. I look forward to seeing the service’s continued progression here and across all areas.”
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Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023–2025: Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
Notes
- For further information, please contact the HMICFRS Press Office on 0300 071 6781 or HMICPressOffice@hmicfrs.gov.uk.
- This inspection contains our third assessment of the service’s effectiveness and efficiency, and how well it looks after its people. We have measured the service against 11 areas and given a grade for each.
- We haven’t given separate grades for effectiveness, efficiency and people as we did previously. This is to encourage the service to consider our inspection findings as a whole and not focus on just one area.
- We have expanded our previous four-tier system of judgements to five. These changes mean that it isn’t possible to make direct comparisons between grades awarded in this round of inspections with those from previous years.
- A reduction in grade, particularly from good to adequate, doesn’t necessarily mean that there has been a reduction in performance, unless we say so in the report.
- Read more information about the 2023-25 assessment framework for fire and rescue service inspections.