Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service: Causes of concern revisit letter

FROM HMICFRS:

During our inspection of Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) between October and December 2023, we found that two causes of concern issued after our 2021 inspection hadn’t been fully addressed:

• The service hasn’t done enough since our last inspection to embed its values and associated behaviours and promote a positive workplace culture.
• The service hasn’t done enough since our last inspection to improve understanding and awareness of the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and remove barriers to embedding EDI in the service.

We also identified a new cause of concern:

• The service doesn’t have enough trained and experienced protection staff to implement its risk-based inspection programme and take proportionate action to reduce risk and enforce fire safety regulations.

In our most recent revisit, we were pleased to see the significant steps the service has taken in response to the causes of concern we issued. This has resulted in the closure of the cause of concern related to values and culture and the cause of concern related to protection activity.

This letter summarises our findings.

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