South Yorkshire’s fire service wants people to have their say on its draft Integrated Risk Management Plan 2021-2024. This is a plan that explains how the fire service will keep local people safe over the next few years.
Among the issues, SYFRS wants views on their expected response times for different types of incidents, which have been published in the draft plan.
Set of response standards
The proposed new response time arrangements take into account whether a person’s life is at risk
SYFRS will aim to attend every single 999 call as quickly as they possible can, but having a set of published response times will make them more accountable to local people, help them to improve the service and bring them in line with most other services around the country.
Currently, they simply aim to get to all emergencies as fast as they possibly can, every time. A national inspection reported that it was undesirable for the service not to have a set of response standards.
Proposed new response time arrangements
The proposed new response time arrangements take into account whether a person’s life is at risk, as well as the level of risk in different parts of the county, based on historical incident data and other information.
The results of the consultation will be considered before a final version of the Integrated Risk Management Plan 2021-2024 is presented to the Fire Authority in January.