Draft London Safety Plan 2010/2013 - Fire Brigades Union London

What we said we would do during 2009/10
6 Developing and implementing fire cadet schemes in
those boroughs where this initiative is supported and
sustainable
7 Working with established partnership forums, such as
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships and Local
Area Agreements, to reinforce what the London Fire
Brigade can contribute to further our aims and the aims
of others in the context of wider community safety
8 Continue to develop more effective ways of utilising
operational staff time to increase the time allocated to
community issues
9 Designate individuals who can act as the “public face” of
community safety
10 Develop an interactive Community Safety area on the
Brigade’s website to better promote fire safety
messages and information
11 Start to develop an evaluation methodology to gauge
the effectiveness of Community Safety campaigns and
initiatives
What we have done so far
Due to funding and other resourcing problems, the start of this year’s scheme in Tower Hamlets, Hackney
and Bexley were delayed. The Tower Hamlets and Hackney schemes have now restarted following their
summer break and the Bexley scheme is due to start in January 2010
Borough Commanders continue to have active involvement in more than 600 partnerships across London. A
document “How we are making x borough safer” has been produced for each borough which highlights the
risk we perceive and the work we are undertaking in partnership to address them.
Alternative use of resources, including all day standbys, are being discussed with the Fire Brigades Union.
Borough Commanders can now use appliances on Strategic Resource (SR) across boroughs when required
and some 12% of strategic resource time has been spent on community safety activities and home fire safety
visits. Station staff spent 10.71% of available time on community safety activities.
Borough Commanders are LFB’s fire safety champions and they have been briefed on their role and
provided with information and key messages about the campaign and beyond.
Initial area completed. The website was used extensively to promote the community safety campaign in
both June and September 2009 and attracted an increase to 349 online requests for a Home Fire Safety Visit
(HFSV) in September. In addition the site has been used to run specialist stories to promote equalities e.g. a
day in the life of a firefighter and to highlight key news stories.
All CS schemes have internal evaluations from participants and some schemes (e.g. LIFE and JFIS) have been
the subject of external evaluations. Currently awaiting details of a proposed government evaluation policy.
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