Our 2025-26 Plan on a Page

During 2025-26 we aim to achieve the following outcomes and objectives. Further information about our planned improvements within each goal can be found in the sections which follow.

Goal 1 Prevention

• Undertake at least 16,000 home visits to improve safety, targeting those with the highest risk
• Work with partners to deliver a range of safety messages to at least 2,000 primary school children
• Strengthen our community befriending scheme, delivering 248 engagements with groups located all across the county
• Deliver a programme of safety campaigns and events aligned to the NFCC calendar
• Work with partners to provide training and share learning

Goal 2 Protection

• Undertake at least 3,150 visits to business premises, to provide advice and undertake regulatory activities
• Respond promptly to all building and licencing consultations, providing feedback within 15 working days
• Participate in the NFCC working group to develop the methodology and strategy for dealing with unwanted fire signals
• Undertake at least 500 proactive engagements with businesses to promote fire safety
• Ensure 85% of watches have at least one warranted officer for fire safety

Goal 3 Response

• Attend all incidents within 8 minutes, on average, from mobilisation of first appliance
• Availability of fire appliances is at least 98% for those with wholetime crews and 85% for those with on-call crews
• Implement a new mobilising system in collaboration with Joint Fire Control and Derbyshire FRS
• Undertake strategic reviews of our specialist response capabilities and our standard appliance specifications

Goal 4 People and culture

• Continue to improve diversity of the workforce
• Launch a cultural dashboard to support decision making
• Complete the implementation of recommendations from external culture & conduct reviews
• Manage wellbeing and absence to reduce average sickness days lost to national average or below
• Continue to mitigate risks to our colleagues from contaminants

Goal 5 Service improvement

• Improve productivity by 3% and achieve non-pay related efficiency savings of 2%
• Undertake functional reviews of key support functions
• Improve our use of data to drive service improvements
• Improve our contract management processes to drive efficiencies
• Continue to invest in systems and process improvements to increase productivity and improve services

Goal 6 Sustainability

• Complete the refurbishments of our on-call stations
• Commence work on building a new station
• Receive into service 17 new fire appliances, a new command support unit and a new Aerial Ladder Platform
• Develop a decarbonisation strategy and roadmap for delivery
• Deliver a balanced budget