Publication scheme
On this page you’ll find legally required information about Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, including our strategies, plans, and performance monitoring by the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex (PFCC). In compliance with legal obligations, we publish details of our contracts, budgets and spending to ensure transparency and value for money. This page serves as a comprehensive resource to demonstrate how we work transparently to keep Essex safe.
Overview
We are Essex County Fire and Rescue Service. We attend emergency incidents around Essex.
You can find out more about us by reading our strategies and plans.
The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex (PFCC) is the voice of the people and actively monitors and scrutinises our performance to make sure we are delivering an efficient and effective service. They also write and publish the Fire and Rescue Plan.
Office Holders
Our Service Leadership Team assist the PFCC to meet requirements to establish and oversee the corporate governance arrangements of our Service.
Some of these senior staff also fulfil statutory responsibilities.
The PFCC’s statutory duties include agreeing our budget and overseeing how we spend it, making sure taxpayers get good value for money. In addition, the PFCC works with local and national government to set the amount of money you will pay for policing and the fire service as part of your annual council tax bill. These charges are known as the ‘policing precept’ and the ‘fire precept’.
The Commissioner works with a range of organisations, across both business and voluntary sectors to deliver an improved service to the people of Essex. Through the Community Safety Development Fund, the PFCC awards grants to different organisations who work hard to make our communities safer and help victims of crime.
Pay Policy Statement
We publish our Pay Policy Statement.
Fees and charges
You can see a list of special charges we make for our services.
Essex Partners
We work to build relationships with partners across Essex to provide better public services.
We work to make Essex safer together. However, there are a number of hazards and risks that could impact our County. The Essex Resilience Forum wants to make sure that if a large scale emergency does affect us, we are ready to respond and working together to minimise any impact.
We list the organisations we work with, along with how we share data with other organisations, on our Privacy Notice.
What we spend and how we spend it
You can find our budgets, statement of accounts, day-to-day spending and audit reports on our finance pages and more information about expenditures, invoices and contracts on our Transparency pages.
What our priorities are and how we're doing
You can find out more about our priorities, plans and objectives on our strategy pages.
Our policies and procedures
We list the organisations we work with, along with how we share data with other organisations, on our Privacy Notice.
Information Requests
If you require further information, please we publish our freedom of information requests responses and environmental information request on our transparency website.
If after looking at the site the information is not still available you can request it via our website.