Addressed to: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t done enough since our last inspection to address its areas for improvement and provide clear direction to make sure that its teams can prioritise work according to risk.
Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should provide an action plan that assures the system to record fire safety activity is robust and well supported to enable prioritisation of highest risk.
Addressed to: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t done enough since our last inspection to address its areas for improvement and provide clear direction to make sure that its teams can prioritise work according to risk.
Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should provide an action plan that clearly defines its risk-based inspection programme, within a revised protection strategy, which is aligned to its next public safety plan.
Addressed to: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t done enough since our last inspection to address its areas for improvement and provide clear direction to make sure that its teams can prioritise work according to risk.
Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should provide an action plan that makes sure it has an effective quality assurance process so that staff carry out audits to an appropriate standard.
Addressed to: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t done enough since our last inspection to address its areas for improvement and provide clear direction to make sure that its teams can prioritise work according to risk.
Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should provide an action plan that makes sure its increased number of staff complete a proportionate amount of activity to reduce risk and work to effective targets.
Addressed to: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Cause of concern: Some improvements in prevention have been made since our last inspection. The service has revised its prevention strategy, and this is giving its prevention and response teams better direction. But the service is still not adequately identifying and prioritising those most at risk from fire.
Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should review its action plan to make sure that it has an effective system to define the levels of risk in the community.
Addressed to: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Cause of concern: Some improvements in prevention have been made since our last inspection. The service has revised its prevention strategy, and this is giving its prevention and response teams better direction. But the service is still not adequately identifying and prioritising those most at risk from fire.
Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should review its action plan to make sure that its systems and processes for dealing with referrals from individuals and partner agencies effectively manage and prioritise those referrals with the highest identified risk.
Addressed to: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. The service has done enough to complete one of our recommendations by reviewing its equality impact assessment process. But the other recommendations still require action to be taken or completed.
Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should review its action plan, detailing how it will be more ambitious in its efforts to attract a more diverse workforce that better reflects the community it serves.
Addressed to: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. The service has done enough to complete one of our recommendations by reviewing its equality impact assessment process. But the other recommendations still require action to be taken or completed.
Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should review its action plan, detailing how it will give greater priority to how it increases awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion across the organisation.
Addressed to: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. The service has done enough to complete one of our recommendations by reviewing its equality impact assessment process. But the other recommendations still require action to be taken or completed.
Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should review its action plan, detailing how it will make improvements to the way it collects equality data to better understand its workforce demographics and needs.
Addressed to: Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. The service has done enough to complete one of our recommendations by reviewing its equality impact assessment process. But the other recommendations still require action to be taken or completed.
Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should review its action plan, detailing how it will make sure that it has appropriate ways to engage with and seek feedback from all staff, including those from under-represented groups.