Source · HMICFRS
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023–2025: East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
18 June 2025
Fire & Rescue Inspection
15 areas for improvement
Areas for improvement
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The service should make sure it carries out home safety visits in a timely manner.
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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.
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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.
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The service should have an effective exercise plan
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The service should continue to compare its costs with those of other services
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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.
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The service should make sure that staff are confident using its feedback systems.
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The service should make sure it puts effective measures in place to address the backlog of safe and well visits.
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The service should make sure its staff can target and deal with high risk more effectively when carrying out home safety visits.
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The service needs to make sure it can effectively carry out all the home safety visits on its system, in a timely manner
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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.
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The service should make sure it has an effective system for learning from operational incidents.
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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.
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The service should implement national operational guidance promptly
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The service should make sure it evaluates operational performance and shares learning effectively