The Chief Inspector's Plan 2025-2028

Potential inspection activity 2025-2028

24.  With a full cycle of SDA inspections coming to a conclusion, we will pause our area based inspection regime. We will consider issues that have arisen from the conclusions and recommendations of these reports and moving forward, will consider how corporate functions are delivered in the Service and measure the progress that the SFRS has made in respect of the SDA inspection reports.

25.  The thematic inspection activity which we shall undertake during the course of this Plan will be influenced by our previous inspection work and is likely to sit within the themes of People, Partnership, Response, and Prevention. Our areas of interest are listed below: our inspection work will be selected from this list, taking into account the inspection capacity of HMFSI and the demands on the SFRS:

• the training and personal development of operational staff
• organisational culture – including behaviour, conduct and discipline
• organisational culture - equality, diversity and inclusion
• the approach of the SFRS to determining changes in service delivery and response modelling
• specialist resource provision and capability (including national resilience assets)
• planning and preparations for a response to a marauding terrorist act
• Operations Control (the timing of any inspection will aim to avoid an overlap with the SFRS installing a new proposed mobilising system)
• the provision and sustainability of the on‑call duty systems
• the effectiveness of governance arrangements
• the suitability of the Service’s property estate
• fire contaminants and associated issues
• evaluation of the SFRS’s contribution to partnership working.

26.  The Chief Inspector reserves the right to modify this list should circumstances require it.