The core principles of our estates strategy (continued)
• To support our commitment to communities to ensure we can provide the best possible protection to the public as we make changes to our estate. We will ensure we take account of operational and community risk. • To create an effective collaboration programme with emergency services and other partners that will enhance our ability to achieve service benefits and stretch our property performance targets for the efficiency of the estate. • To be progressive in our application of agile working to maximise operational effectiveness and efficiency. We will build on significant recent successes to implement agile working in its many forms across all our services, whether delivered by firefighters, officers, staff, or volunteers. • To continue to provide accommodation that responds to the demands of a changing fire and rescue service, embracing the digital and cultural enablers that allow us to better use our physical footprint. • To continue to drive improvements to the economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability of our estate, releasing much needed financial resources for reinvestment in the priorities of our fire and rescue service. • It is essential that ECFRS is closely monitoring and linked into future public development plans so that it can identify and plan for future risk. It will also provide the opportunity to be at the forefront of being able to determine and identify what our potential future estates needs may be and therefore embed ourselves into future population developmental plans. • To ensure the property portfolio is appropriate and fit for purpose and able to meet the support and wellbeing needs of our workforce. • We also want to ensure that our estate is meeting the environmental expectations of the future and recognising that we want to go green. Sustainability can no longer be considered as niche. Our workforce and communities expect us to be driving environmental improvements as a key objective.
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