Addressed to: Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion.
Recommendation: The service should improve equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) by: • developing effective ways to show how it monitors and evaluates EDI objectives, including understanding and addressing the effect positive action has on staff;
Addressed to: Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion.
Recommendation: The service should improve equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) by: • making improvements to the way it collects equality data to better understand its workforce demographics and needs.
Addressed to: Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion.
Recommendation: The service should improve equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) by: • making sure it has robust processes in place to do equality impact assessments and reviewing any actions agreed as a result;
Addressed to: Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion.
Recommendation: The service should improve equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) by: • supporting staff and managers to confidently challenge and manage inappropriate behaviour.
Addressed to: Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion.
Recommendation: The service should improve equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) by: • working with staff to develop clear EDI objectives and training to increase awareness of EDI and its importance across the organisation;