Appendix C

Annual efficiency statement - forward look for fire & resilience services

Details

Local authority Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service

Contact name Wendy Lambert

Job title Head of Financial & Office Services

Email address [email protected]

Submitted date 04/08/2008 04:06 PM

Statement

Comments for actions in 2008/09

Revised shift systems/Crewing arrangements (IRMP)

Following a review of fire cover in the Portsmouth area and a successful trial of the relocation of our emergency response resources to Cosham and Southsea fire stations Copnor fire station will close in 2008/09. This will deliver £1.7m of efficiency gains from the staffing establishment of 4 watch managers, 4 crew managers, 36 firefighters and a station manager conditioned to the flexible duty system.

Havant fire station will change from day crewing to continuous crewing to improve our response times and increase our capacity for community safety initiatives.  In addition to the basic salary for their roles as watch managers, crew managers or firefighters; day crewing personnel receive retainer and training fees, turnout and attendance, and fuel, light and rent allowances. At Havant the saving from withdrawal of these allowances is £130k.  In addition there will be a reduction in the payments to the retained firefighters as the wholetime crew will generally be the first attendance at incidents.

HR other

We have been reviewing the structures in service delivery, human resources and training departments to ensure we have the capacity to deliver our integrated risk management plans and this has identified opportunities to remove allowances, convert posts from grey to green book (civilianisation) as well as to delete posts completely.  The planned savings are £491k as follows:

· Service delivery £301k

· Human resources £170k

· Training £20k

Procurement

A service wide review of photocopying and internal and external printing has resulted in a new photocopying contract expected to save £21k (18%) per year.

A change of supplier for uniform shirts is expected to save £5k annually.

Corporate Services

A review of all allowances paid to staff has identified that the home telephone allowance can now be withdrawn because all staff who need to be contacted now have mobile phones - saving £5k annually.

Efficiency gains forecast for the financial year 2008-2009

All figures £'000

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