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Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Fire & rescue services, People  —  8 March 2024

This is our third assessment of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service.

Publication  —  Cause of concern, Effectiveness, Fire & rescue services, People  —  15 February 2023

In January 2023, we revisited Essex County Fire and Rescue Service to review progress against a cause of concern identified in a previous inspection. This letter provides an update on our findings.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Fire & rescue services, People  —  27 July 2022

This is the third time that HMICFRS has inspected fire and rescue services across England. Our focus is on the service they provide to the public, and the way they use the resources available. This includes: Devon and Somerset, Essex County, Gloucestershire, Humberside, Lancashire, London, Northampton, Norfolk, Nottingham, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Tyne and Wear, West Sussex and West Yorkshire.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Fire & rescue services, People  —  27 July 2022

The inspection assesses how effectively and efficiently Essex Fire and Rescue Service prevents, protects the public against and responds to fires and other emergencies. We also assess how well it looks after the people who work for the service.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Fire & rescue services, Revisit  —  17 December 2019

During our inspection of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, in June 2019, we identified a cause of concern about how effective the service is at keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks. We asked the service to submit an action plan setting out how it would address this cause of concern. We revisited Essex between 11 and 13 November 2019 to review progress against the action plan. 

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Fire & rescue services, People  —  17 December 2019

This inspection assesses how effectively and efficiently Essex County Fire and Rescue Service prevents, protects the public against and responds to fires and other emergencies. We also assess how well it looks after the people who work for the service.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Fire & rescue services, People  —  20 June 2019

This the first time that HMICFRS has inspected fire and rescue services across England. This report sets out a summary of our findings from inspecting 16 fire and rescue services in tranche 2.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Fire & rescue services, People  —  20 December 2018

Summary This is the first time that HMICFRS has inspected fire and rescue services across England. Our focus is on the service they provide to the public, and the way they use the resources available. We have inspected 14 services in the first tranche of inspections. Each inspection assesses how effective and efficient the service…