Developing the new NYFRS Community Risk Management 2025-2029 – Progress to Public Consultation

DN4/YNYCA/DM/2025

Date 09/07/2025

Background

All fire and rescue services are required to produce a Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP). For North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (NYFRS), this plan identifies the risks across York and North Yorkshire and outlines how they will use their people and resources (vehicles and equipment) to address them.
The current CRMP, known as the Risk and Resource Model 2022–2025, expires at the end of this calendar year. As part of the statutory process, the public must be consulted on a new, draft CRMP before implementation.

NYFRS provided an update on the development of a new CRMP 2025-2029 to the Strategic Oversight Board on 24 June 2025. Approval was sought to move to public consultation on the CRMP proposals, on the basis of the following documents.

• The proposed consultation document, including areas of focus for the CRMP
• The proposed survey questions

Following discussion and subject to a number of minor amendments, the Deputy Mayor approved the recommendation to progress to public consultation.

Decision Record

To commence a joint public consultation of the Mayor and the Chief Fire Office on the Service’s draft Community Risk Management Plan 2025-2029. The consultation will take place over an eight-week period from 7 July to 7 September 2025.

Statutory Officer Advice

Financial Implications

A budget has been allocated for the development of the Community Risk Management Plan to include; contracting for some incident data modelling, conducting and promoting a public consultation and contracting for professional production of all associated documents (Consultation Document, Community Risk Profile and final Community Risk Management Plan 2025-2029). The public consultation will be managed in-house to keep costs to a minimum.

Legal Implications

The Fire and Rescue National Framework 2018 states that the Integrated Risk Management Plan (now termed the Community Risk Management Plan) should “reflect effective consultation throughout its development and at all review stages with the community, its workforce and representative bodies and partners; and be easily accessible and publicly available.”

Equality & Diversity Implications

The consultation will be accessible online, with printed copies available upon request. To encourage broad and inclusive participation, it will be promoted through social media and targeted engagement—particularly with seldom-heard and underrepresented groups—to help ensure that responses best reflect the full diversity of communities across York and North Yorkshire.