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Annual Report and Accounts 2014-2015 Annual Report and Accounts 2014-2015 Working together for a safer Scotland Laid before the Scottish Parliament by Mister Paul Wheelhouse MSP under Section 42A(1) of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (inserted by section 118 of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012) xxxxxxxxx2015 SG-2014-277 Contents Page Welcome and Introduction 1 Management Commentary: Strategic Report 4 > The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service 5 > Our vision, values and targets 6 > Strategic Plan 2016-19 7 > Financial Review 7 > Performance Scorecard 8 > Strategic Aim 1: Improved safety of our communities and staff 22 > Strategic Aim 2: More equitable access to fire and rescue services 32 > Strategic Aim 3: Improved outcomes through partnership 38 > Strategic Aim 4: Develop a culture of continuous improvement 44 Sustainability Report 51 Directors Report 59 Remuneration Report 62 Annual Governance Statement 71 Business Risks 80 Statement of Accountable Officer’s Responsibilities 82 Independent Auditors Report 83 Annual Report and Accounts 85 To find out more, visit our website at www.firescotland.gov.uk Welcome and Introduction One of the things we are most pleased about is our community safety work which demonstrates the true value of our public service. PAT WATTERS Chair Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Board It gives us great pleasure to introduce our annual report Collaboration with the Scottish Government and for 2014-15. Within this document, you will find details engagement with a range of internal and external of the progress made by the Scottish Fire and Rescue stakeholders will ensure that as we move forward our Service (SFRS) in its second year operating as a national strategic direction and priorities continue to deliver organisation. on the expectations for SFRS as set out within the Fire Framework. Specifically, you will be able to see how our strategies and plans contribute to the Scottish Government’s National Details of our financial performance are also contained Framework, which is designed to improve outcomes within the annual report and accounts and show that we for communities across Scotland through the effective continue to make the savings asked of us by the reform performance of public services and enhanced partnership agenda. Accounts for the financial year 2014/15 include working between a wide range of key stakeholders and details of SFRS income, expenditure, assets and liabilities. agencies. It is critical that we can demonstrate that we are able to Staff continue to work extremely hard to ensure we operate within the reduced financial budget available meet our targets as defined within the Fire and Rescue to us whilst continuing to deliver the excellent and wide Framework. To reduce fire fatalities and casualties, reduce range of services the public has come to rely on. special service casualties, reduce accidental dwelling fires, reduce firefighter injuries and critically, to improve our own One of the things we are most pleased about is our staff attendance rates. community safety work, very oen undertaken with partners, which demonstrates the true value of our public You will see examples of how we have tackled all of service to individuals and agencies. These life-saving these issues throughout this report and where we have services and initiatives are oen targeted at helping some exceeded or achieved our targets or where we need to of the most vulnerable people in our communities. add further focus. It is through these efforts that we will be able to deliver Legislation also requires us to produce a new strategic plan safer communities, ensure less people die or are injured every three years and work is well underway to ensure that in house fires and prevent people from needing our this will be produced during 2016. This allows us to review emergency interventions in the first place. the work we have done since our inception as a national service. 1 Working together for a safer Scotland ALASDAIR HAY Chief Officer Scottish Fire and Rescue Service That should allow us to create safer operating As we continue to find new and innovative ways to environments for our firefighters, which should in turn improve our performance and deliver an excellent fire and have a positive impact on firefighter injuries. rescue service this report demonstrates the progress we have made to date on that journey. SFRS continues to be at the heart of ensuring that major events can be delivered safely and our personnel have We hope you enjoy the report and reading about our contributed to the extensive planning and preparation achievements and once again we would like to thank our required alongside partners to deliver public spectacles staff for all their efforts to deliver the improvements and including the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, the successes we have documented here. Scottish Open Golf in Aberdeen, the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, T in the Park at Balado and the world famous Edinburgh Fringe and Festival to name but a few. Whether it is ensuring that specialist resources are made available whenever and wherever they are needed, delivering home fire safety visits to make people safer in their homes from fire or responding to emergencies such as the George Square bin lorry crash or the Glasgow School of Art fire our focus remains the same. We must ensure we continue to improve the level of service we deliver, against a backdrop of continuing funding pressures. We know one of the best ways we can do this is through our positive approach to working in partnership with others to ensure that we are delivering effective, best value services. This will ensure we deliver safer communities for the people of Scotland, an aim that is shared by all of our key partners. Annual Report and Accounts 2014-2015 2 Management Commentary: Strategic Report The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service: Contributing to Scotland’s future The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) is The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 is a key committed to contributing meaningfully to Scottish element of the Scottish Government’s public service Government’s aims for our communities. reform agenda and provides the statutory basis for reform of Scotland’s eight former fire and rescue services into a We formulate our strategies, plans and policies so that we single Service for Scotland. play our part in creating a safer, stronger country where high quality, efficient public services support people, The aims of reform, as articulated in the act, are to: particularly the vulnerable and disadvantaged in our society, to access services that meet their needs. • Protect and improve local services, despite financial cuts, by stopping duplication of support Scottish Government’s National Framework specifies the services eight times over and not cutting front line outcomes which describe what it wants to achieve for services Scotland. We can contribute directly or indirectly to each • Create more equal access to specialist resources of the 16 outcomes they have chosen, but we make a and national capacity – like murder investigation significant contribution to these four: teams, firearms teams or flood rescue – where and when they are needed; and • We live longer and healthier lives (Outcome 6) • Strengthen the connection between fire services • We live our lives free from crime, disorder and and communities by creating a new formal danger (Outcome 9) relationship with all 32 local authorities, involving • We have strong, resilient and supportive many more local councillors and better integrating communities where people take responsibility for with community planning partnerships their own actions and the ways in which they affect others (Outcome 11) • Our public services are high quality, continually improving, efficient and responsive to local needs (Outcome 16) Our Service is part of the ‘Justice’ family of services, so the more detailed direction we are given by Scottish Government is cascaded through the Strategy for Justice in Scotland 2012 which requires us to contribute to the following: • Priority 6 ‘reducing the harm from fires and other emergencies’ • Priority 8 ‘strengthening community engagement and resilience’ Annual Report and Accounts 2014-2015 4 The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service This report marks the end of our second year as a national organisation. Our focus has been on consolidating the strong foundations we laid in our inaugural year whilst continuing on our transformation journey. We continue to work closely with Government to ensure we meet Ministers’ expectations. In order to set a clear course, we consulted on and published a Strategic Plan 2013-16. This is supported by consecutive Annual Operating Plans which clearly show how the aims of the Strategic Plan are met. The achievements delivered through the Annual Operating Plan 2014/15 are recorded within this document, and a new Operating Plan for 2015/16 has been approved by the Board. Within the Strategic Plan we set out how we will achieve our vision through our aims, values and targets. The Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs held the public annual review of SFRS for 2013/14 in Glasgow on 16 July 2015. The review document can be viewed on our website, www.firescotland.gov.uk, through the ‘About Us’ menu on the ‘Planning and Performance’ page. 5 Working together for a safer Scotland Working together for a Safer Scotland We will be a world leading Fire Service that others look to because of our approach of working in partnership to improve the safety and wellbeing of people throughout Scotland. our aims AIM 1 AIM 2 AIM 3 AIM 4 IMPROVED ACCESS TO OUR PARTNERSHIP CONTINUOUS SAFETY SERVICES WORKING IMPROVEMENT Improved safety of our More equitable access to our Improved outcomes through Develop a culture of communities and staff services partnership continuous improvement Work with our local communities Ensure all our communities Engage with partners to Ensure continuous improvement to reduce risk from fire and other have access to the full range of ensure our national priorities is at the heart of all our activities emergencies and ensure the services and skills we provide are tailored locally to and we adopt best practice to safety of our staff at all times.
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