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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