East Sussex Fire Authority

East Sussex Fire Authority is the political body which oversees the activity of East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service. The Authority is made up of Councillors from both Brighton & Hove City Council and East Sussex County Council. The Service is headed by the Chief Fire Officer & Chief Executive (CFO). To find out more click here.

Corporate Management Team

East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service is managed by the Corporate Management Team, consisting of 9 members, who meet to discuss strategic and policy issues and to monitor and determine service and financial plans into the future. To find out more click here.

Regional Management Board

To find out more about the Regional Management Board for the nine Fire Authorities in the South East of England and dates of meetings, click here.

Freedom of Information Act

To comply with this Act, East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service has set up a publication scheme which consists of information already published and held by the Authority or information which is to be published in the future. For further details, click here.

Best Value Plans

The Fire Service, in common with all other local authority organisations are required to report annually on a wide range of performance indicators. These indicators help ESFRS to target areas of poor performance, identify the reasons behind them and then commit additional resources towards rectifying the problem areas. They also help to pinpoint areas of good performance so that we can identify what we are doing right. The document that outlines this performance is The Best Value Performance Plan. Click here for more information.

Comprehensive Performance Assessment

Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) came from the Government's commitment to raise standards in local government and is a new process that sits on top of the existing legal duty of Best Value. To find out more click here.

Charter Mark

Charter Mark is a unique national customer service standard that offers public sector organisations the opportunity to work through a customer focused improvement programme to be recognised for providing excellent customer service. Click here for further details about the Charter Mark and East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service.

Investors In People

The Investor in People Standard is a business improvement tool designed to advance an organisations performance through its people.

Protecting the Environment

In addition to protecting lives and property from fire, protecting the environment now plays an equally important role in the fire service.

Equality Schemes

East Sussex Fire Authority and East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service aims to implement equality in everything we do. The measures we take and intend to take to achieve this are set out in our Equality Schemes.

The Race Equality Scheme sets out how we plan to review our obligations in relation to the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000 and forms an extension to the Service´s Equality Scheme. The scheme has received its final approval by the Modernisation and Improvement Panel.

The Disability Equality Scheme is to promote equality of opportunity and ensure that disability equality is mainstreamed into our policies and service delivery procedures.

Further details and the complete schemes are available on our Equality Schemes Page.

Service Charter

The East Sussex Fire Authority Service Charter provides a summary of the services we provide, sets out the standards of service you can expect from us and tells you what action you can take if these standards are not met. To read the charter click here [pdf - 1213 KB].