Introduction

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. We have produced this plan in line with the guidance issued by the Home Office on 12 February 2024, and it is published on our website to allow scrutiny from the communities we serve.

The Fire and Rescue National Framework sets a requirement that combined and metropolitan Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRAs) produce and publish Efficiency Plans. There is a specific requirement from the Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire that in 2024/25, all FRAs produce plans that not only cover their planned efficiencies, but also plans for increasing productivity.

We were rated as ‘Good’ in our most recent inspection by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) across all three pillars of the inspection. Specifically, under Efficiency, we were good at:

• Making best use of our resources
• Making our workforce’s time as productive as possible
• Making savings while maintaining operational performance

In the face of the ongoing pressures on public sector finances, this plan outlines the savings we have made to this point (without repeating the information that can be found in last year’s plan) and explains our existing plans for 2024/25 to show how we are continuing to create non-pay efficiency savings of 2% and increasing productivity by 3%.