The brigade should make sure staff carry out safer home visits promptly.
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023–2025: Cleveland Fire Brigade
Published 23 April 2025Fire & Rescue Inspection0 recommendations25 areas for improvement
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Areas for improvement
The brigade should make sure it has an effective process to refer people at risk to partner organisations.
The brigade should assure itself that its risk-based inspection programme prioritises the highest risks and includes proportionate activity to reduce risk.
The brigade should make sure it has an effective quality assurance process, so staff carry out audits to an appropriate standard.
The brigade should make sure it has effective arrangements to provide specialist protection advice out of hours.
The brigade should make sure it works with local businesses and other organisations to share information and expectations on compliance with fire safety regulations.
The brigade should make sure it allocates enough resources to carry out its protection strategy
The brigade should make sure it has an effective system to learn from operational incidents.
The brigade should make sure its firefighters have access to relevant and up-to-date risk information.
The brigade should make sure that risk information is accurate and up to date
The brigade should assure itself that senior managers demonstrate brigade values through their behaviours.
The brigade should proactively monitor working hours (including overtime) to improve staff well-being.
The brigade should assure itself that all staff receive the right training for their role.
The brigade should make sure the system to record and monitor operational staff competence is aligned to its policy for maintaining skills and knowledge.
The brigade must do more to effectively record and monitor staff competence
The brigade should make sure it has robust processes in place to carry out equality impact assessments and review any actions agreed as a result.
The brigade should make sure it is transparent and fair when recruiting staff.
The brigade needs to do more to increase diversity.
The brigade needs to further improve its approach to equality, diversity and inclusion
The brigade needs to do more to assure its workforce that promotion processes are fair.
The brigade should put in place an open and fair process to identify, develop and support high-potential staff and aspiring leaders.
The brigade needs to do more to assure the workforce that promotion processes are fair
The brigade needs to do more to make sure its promotion and progression processes are viewed as fair.
The brigade needs to improve the way it actively manages the career pathways of staff, including those with specialist skills and those with potential for leadership roles.
The brigade should consider putting in place more formal arrangements to identify and support members of staff to become senior leaders.