Issue - meetings

RESOLVED:

That the Surrey Fire and Rescue Public Safety Plan, setting a framework for 2016 – 2025, be approved for publication.

Reasons for Decisions:

In acknowledging the public consultation feedback and finalised version of the Public Safety Plan, the Fire and Rescue Authority gives confirmation to the direction of Surrey Fire and Rescue Service and endorses its plans.

[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Resident Experience Board]

The Cabinet Member for Localities and Community Wellbeing said that the County Council’s revised Public Safety Plan covered the period 2016 – 2025 and that some of the proposals within it were instrumental to achieving the savings required in the service’s budget.

The Cabinet Associate for Community Safety Services informed Members that Surrey Fire and Rescue Authority was required to produce an Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) which considered all the fire and rescue related risks that could affect its communities. This planning process helps to identify longer term priorities, to make sure there was an up to date assessment of risk, and how to mitigate it effectively.

She said in Surrey, the Council set out its IRMP in the Public Safety Plan (PSP), which was currently valid until 2020. However, within a constantly changing environment, new threats and opportunities have emerged and this new document provided a framework for how SFRS would respond and adapt to these changes.

The PSP refresh document covered the period 2016-2025 and there were nine proposals set out in paragraph 2 of the covering report. She said that the PSP was consulted on from 27 April – 7 June 2016 and the feedback was supportive of the proposals. She confirmed that the Fire Brigade Union had been fully engaged throughout the process and was supportive of the Plan and that the refreshed PSP 2016 – 2025 would remain as a ‘draft’ until final approval by Cabinet.

She said that it was a large document, containing a wealth of information including some amazing case studies. Referring to the Equalities Impact Assessment, she highlighted the following paragraph within it:

‘The Public Safety Plan (PSP) is the over-arching business strategy that guides the priorities and improvements Surrey Fire and Rescue Service will make over the next ten years The Public Safety Plan (PSP) is our key planning document that describes how we will play our part in keeping Surrey residents, and those that work or travel through the county, safe over the next 10 years. It outlines our understanding of the risks and challenges facing the county and how we will maintain adapt and enhance our service accordingly.’

The Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, Wellbeing and Independence wished to put on record his thanks to SFRS for the services it provided for Adult Social Care.  

RESOLVED:

That the Surrey Fire and RescuePublic Safety Plan, setting a framework for 2016 – 2025, be approved for publication.

Reasons for Decisions:

In acknowledging the public consultation feedback and finalised version of the Public Safety Plan, the Fire and Rescue Authority gives confirmation to the direction of Surrey Fire and Rescue Service and endorses its plans.