The service should make sure it carries out home safety visits in a timely manner.
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023–2025: East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
Published 18 June 2025Fire & Rescue Inspection0 recommendations15 areas for improvement
Coverage
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Areas for improvement
The service should make sure it puts effective measures in place to address the backlog of safe and well visits.
The service should make sure its staff can target and deal with high risk more effectively when carrying out home safety visits.
The service needs to make sure it can effectively carry out all the home safety visits on its system, in a timely manner
The service should improve the availability of its on-call crewed fire engines to respond to incidents in line with its integrated risk management plan.
The service should make sure it has an effective system for learning from operational incidents.
The service should make sure it has the appropriate resources in place to achieve its plan with regard to the adoption and implementation of national operational guidance in a timely manner.
The service should implement national operational guidance promptly
The service should make sure it evaluates operational performance and shares learning effectively
The service should make sure it has an effective method for sharing fire survival guidance information with multiple callers and has a dedicated communication link in place.
The service should make sure it has a plan to consistently carry out internal (including tall buildings), cross-border and multi-agency exercises, with learning from them recorded and shared.
The service should have an effective exercise plan
The service should continue to compare its costs with those of other services
The service should make sure it has effective arrangements in place to support all staff in a consistent and timely manner following a traumatic incident.
The service should make sure that staff are confident using its feedback systems.