Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service Response Review Consultation

Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service (GFRS) and Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) are committed to providing the best services to our communities throughout the county.

To ensure we are delivering an effective and efficient service we are constantly reviewing our response to risk through our Community Risk Management Plan.

As part of this plan we take a risk based approach and regularly review modelling and data to evaluate the service we provide.

We want to:

Improve the ability to have the right people, in the right place to respond to emergencies in our communities
Improve our community prevention and protection activities across the county
Ensure the health and safety of our firefighters

We are seeking your views on proposed changes to GFRS including:

Increase of 14 firefighters with the introduction of a new day shift station at Cinderford
Review and change wholetime firefighter shift patterns from 9 hour day and 15 hour night shifts to 12 hour day and night shifts

No decisions or changes to fire resources will be made until the public consultation has been concluded.

Consultation Mandate

We Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service
are seeking the views from Gloucestershire communities, workforce and stakeholders
on proposed changes to the service - an increase of 14 firefighters with the introduction of a new day shift station at Cinderford and change to 12 hour shift pattern for day and night;
so that the Lead Members of Gloucestershire County Council’s Cabinet
can make a decision on any relevant changes
in December 2024
to ensure the fire service continues to keep Gloucestershire communities safe having the right people, in the right place to respond to emergencies.

How to respond and have your say

Take Survey

The survey can also be made available as a hard copy via post, please contact communications@gloucestershire.gov.uk(External link) or telephone 01452-427554.

The consultation closes on Sunday 9 June, at 5pm.

Questions and Answers

Please email any questions you may have about this consultation to GFRSConsultation2024@glosfire.gov.uk.

Privacy Notice

Gloucestershire County Council provides the below services through Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service and in partnership with several organisations. We need to collect information about you in order to provide these services.

Depending on the service we may collect information about your family and other people associated with your case. We will retain your personal information in line with our Records Retention and Disposal Schedule, or as long as we are legally required to.

There may be reasons for us to keep your information for longer than is stated, such as if you have an open complaint about the services received, for evidence to defend a legal claim or if we are required to by law.

We will keep anonymised data about you indefinitely for data analytical purposes to ensure that we can assess, evaluate and plan our services for the future.

For further information, please visit our Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service Privacy Notice.