Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service: Return to default phase of monitoring
His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, Sir Andy Cooke, has decided to return Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) to our default phase of monitoring, which is known as Scan. This decision is supported by the fact we have been able to close the service’s causes of concern.
On 22 November 2023, we moved Buckinghamshire FRS into our enhanced monitoring process, Engage. In Engage, we provide additional accountability and support to services when there are causes of concern about their efficiency, effectiveness or people.
We moved Buckinghamshire FRS into Engage after we identified two causes of concern:
- the service hadn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion; and
- the service hadn’t done enough since our last inspection to address its areas for improvement and provide clear direction to make sure that its teams can prioritise work according to risk.
In January 2025, we revisited Buckinghamshire FRS. We were pleased to see the significant steps the service has taken in response to the causes of concern we issued. As a result, we have closed these causes of concern.
This letter summarises our findings.
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