Strategic goal 2

This goal is focused on our statutory role to enforce fire and building safety regulations. We deliver this fire protection duty through our risk-based inspection programme (RBIP), which ensures we focus our resources on the highest risk premises.

Over the life of the CRMP 2025-28, we will continue to refine our risk-based inspection methodology and embed improved ways of working, including working with the Buildings Safety Regulator, to maximise the effectiveness of our regulated activities. At the same time, we aim to increase our focus on engagement and education within the business community, to improve understanding of and compliance with fire safety legislation.

We will continue to drive improvements in productivity, and ensure we have a sustainable delivery model which is fully compliant with relevant fire standards.

During 2025-26 we aim to drive further improvements through achievement of the following objectives:

• Embed updates made to our risk-based inspection policy, including aligning our work within the Joint Audit and Inspection Team to our assessment of risk.
• Review the resource requirements to deliver an effective fire protection capability and develop costed proposals for any improvements identified
• Deliver Fire Safety training and continuous professional development for all warranted fire safety officers
• Develop an updated methodology and strategy to deal with unwanted fire signals
• Improve the quality and availability of performance data, through better data governance and reporting, to drive productivity improvements
• Support and develop the approach with East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) to facilitate the Remediation Acceleration Plan in buildings over 11 metres