Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
2023-24 Efficiency and Productivity Plan

4 Transformation plans

  1. The Authority approved its Futures 25 efficiency strategy efficiency strategy in May 2022 with the high level aims of identifying savings within both pay and non-pay budgets.
  2. Futures 25 consists of 3 main strands:
    1. Service Redesign – the reshaping of structures, function, systems and processes to drive efficiency and effectiveness of functions;
    2. Revenue budget review – A scrutiny panel designed to identify further pay and non-pay efficiencies from existing budgets;
    3. Governance Review – A review of governance structures and policy and procedural frameworks and ways of working, designed to reduce bureaucracy and speed up decision making.
  3. A scope for the programme of works is currently being finalised, together with efficiencies and cost savings associated with the programme. Current budget forecasting anticipates that the Service will be operating with a deficit of £1.146m by 2024/25 and Futures 25 is designed to enable plans to be put into place to ensure the Authority is in a position to set a balanced budget.
  4. Futures 25 will consider both pay and non-pay spend efficiencies, in addition to generating efficiencies through improved systems and processes. This will include non-cashable savings to enable to redistribution of resources and drive productivity in some cases.
  5. The Service commits to delivering the 2% of non pay efficiencies over 2 years as committed to at a National Level. The table below illustrates the impact of this on Service non-pay budgets with savings made at a rate of 2% per year for 2 years. The savings achieved figure for 2023/24 includes pay related savings to be consistent with the Annex B template provided. Some of these are of a one off nature in 2023/24.
    Year Non Pay Budget £'000 2% of budget £'000 Saving Achieved £'000
    2022/23 10,161 203 363
    2023/24 11,554 231 1,136
    2024/25 12,834 257 To be determined

Charging Policies

  1. Charging policies are reviewed annually to ensure they remain current and appropriate. Recharging policies will be reviewed in full as part of the income generation workstream of Futures 25 Programme.