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What the Report Facing the Future might mean to Royal Berkshire Fire Authority What have RBFA Achieved Over the past 10 years a very significant reduction in incidents attended Have taken the difficult decisions to close fire


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What the Report ‘Facing the Future’ might mean to Royal Berkshire Fire Authority

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What have RBFA Achieved

  • Over the past 10 years a very significant reduction

in incidents attended

  • Have taken the difficult decisions to close fire

stations

  • Have reviewed RDS Firefighters and committed to

improve RDS Firefighter availability

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Potential Key Issues for RBFA

  • The key issues can be grouped under:
  • Political leadership
  • Strategic direction
  • Along with some key questions for consideration
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Political Leadership

  • How the FA can further engage with the

community in delivering the service

  • To introduce new ways of working that protect

front line services but deliver efficiencies

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Strategic Direction

  • Quantify FA cost per head of population with the

benefit to the community of Berkshire

  • Investigate the potential to be a commissioning or

commissioned service

  • Identify and engage in further spend to save

improvements at both local and regional level

  • Undertake a 10 year review of IRMP to confirm

that resource meets risk and benchmark with other Fire Authorities

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Important Questions for Consideration

  • With the advent of Thames Valley Fire Control to

explore the possibility of merging with other Thames Valley FA’s

  • To review and benchmark the FA with other

combined fire authorities to assess if the governance structure is still appropriate

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Remaining Key Findings

The following are considered less relevant to RBFA:

  • Changes to the Grey Book
  • How reserves are used
  • Merging with other emergency services