Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP)

Safety Plan 2025-30

Nationally, this plan is called a Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP). Our work is in two stages:

Stage one

Earlier this year, we asked for views from the public, partners, community groups and colleagues to help us identify all foreseeable fire and rescue related risks in our communities. The findings from these views were shared with the Fire Authority in October 2023. You can read the full report or the bitesize summary:

• Bitesize report – Identification and analysis of risk to inform the 2025-30 Safety Plan
• Full report – Identification and analysis of risk to inform the 2025-30 Safety Plan

This report does not look at activity currently undertaken by Blue Light Services to address the risks. We will be looking at this in stage two.

Stage two

Over the next 12 months we will be looking at what we can do to address these identified risks – looking at what we must do (statutory), what we currently do, what we should do (it’s the right thing), and what else we could do.

We will then be talking to you about a series of proposals and priorities, and we will undertake a statutory consultation in mid-2024.

Safety Plan

This work will contribute to the production of our next Safety Plan covering 2025-30.  We intend to seek Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Authority approval in Spring 2025.

We will then continue to assess community risk as an ongoing planning function rather than a one-off project every five years. This will ensure future change and assurance is well-considered, evidence-based, and provides the best public service on behalf of our Hampshire and Isle of Wight communities.

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For further information on the Safety Plan, please email crmp@hantsfire.gov.uk.