Service plans

Our Ambition

We have outlined our long-term ambition for the Service, which provides the context for this three-year plan, which can be viewed here Our Ambition 2032

Our Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP)

Nottinghamshire and City of Nottingham Combined Fire Authority, which governs our Service, has a legal duty to:

Identify and assess all foreseeable fire and rescue related risks that could affect the county of Nottinghamshire
Put in place appropriate measures to reduce those risks

We do this through our Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP).

Assessing Risk

In developing the CRMP, we assessed risk in a variety of ways.

We started with a Strategic Assessment of Risk (SAoR). In our SAoR we considered political, economic, socio-cultural, technological, environmental, legal and organisational factors that may impact on the community of Nottinghamshire, and Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service itself.

We also undertook a Community Risk Review (also known as a Fire Cover Review or FCR), which analysed our current fire cover arrangements and how effectively we can attend fire and rescue incidents with our current (or potential future) arrangements.

The findings of the SAoR and FCR informed the development of our Strategic Goals for the next three years and the actions needed to deliver them, detailed within our CRMP.

CRMP Consultation

Following the development of our Draft CRMP, we consulted with the public, using a mixture of surveys and focus groups to generate feedback on how much confidence our communities had in the plan. The outcome and detail of this can be viewed within the Consultation Summary Report.

Annual Delivery Plans

Our CRMP is a three-year plan, covering the period from April 2025 through to March 2028. For each of these three years, we will publish an Annual Delivery Plan (ADP). Each year’s plan breaks down, and will drive, the day-to-day activities of the Service. The annual plans include Key Performance Indicators, so we can see how we’re doing.

Annual statement of assurance

At the end of each year, we will report on our progress and performance against these plans in an Annual Statement of Assurance (ASOA). The Statement of Assurance is a requirement of The Fire and Rescue Service National Framework and provides assurance of our progress against our Community Risk Management Plan. The document provides the public and other stakeholders with information about our performance over the last 12 months including significant strategic projects and key achievements.

Efficiency and Productivity Plans & Returns

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) is committed to its vision of creating safer communities. A fundamental part of our journey to being an outstanding service by 2032 is that we are as efficient and effective as possible.

As part of the 2021/22 Spending Review, the National Fire Chiefs’ Council (NFCC) and the Local Government Association proposed that across Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs) in England, the fire and rescue sector could create 2% of non-pay efficiencies and increase productivity by 3% by 2024/25.

In the face of the ongoing pressures on public sector finances, our plan outlines the savings we have made to this point, and explains how we are continuing to create non-pay efficiency savings of 2% and increasing productivity by 3%.