To consider Report CFO/66/22 of the Chief Fire Officer, concerning the  Service Delivery Plan for 2023/24 attached at Appendix A and the Community Fire and Rescue Station Plans (Stations Plans) at Appendix B.  

Chief Fire Officer, Phil Garrigan, presented the Service Delivery Plan (SDP) for 2023-24 and drew Member’s attention to the Station Plans, which focused on issues bespoke to each Station’s locality.

Members requested that it be made clear on the Authority’s website that the SDP would be subject to change and would be considered by Members of the Authority on a quarterly basis. Each Station’s Plan would also be published on the website so that the public could click on their local fire station and see that plan. 

The Committee discussed consultation and public engagement with the SDP and it was explained that the Authority sought to gather different perspectives from the public as to what they wanted the service to achieve. This included utilising opinion research and asking for feedback on proposals from partner organisations. It was suggested that the public tended to engage more with the Authority on social media than on its own website and moving forward social media would be utilised more to communicate with different communities.

RESOLVED that the attached Service Delivery Plan (Appendix A) for 2023/24 be approved prior to publication of a designed version on the Authority’s website.