The Wakefield District Plan highlights the district priorities for 2025-2026. It derives from the priorities set out in the WYFRS (West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service) Community Risk Management Plan, Your Fire and Rescue Service 2025-2028.
Our ambition is to make West Yorkshire Safer by making Wakefield Safer. We aim to improve community safety and wellbeing and reduce the risk to life, property, and the environment from fire and other emergencies. The Wakefield District Team will work with partners to understand the challenges and changing risks that face our communities and those most vulnerable within our society.
We aim to use lessons learned to improve and deliver a proactive community safety programme and engagement strategy. Collaboration and relationships with partners, local authorities, and third sector organisations are strong in Wakefield. We will use this strength to work more effectively together to deliver our service priorities, whilst creating safer and healthier communities within Wakefield.
Through our Site-Specific Risk Information and Building Risk Review programmes, we will promote and enforce the fire safety measures required by law to ensure that buildings and occupants are protected. These programmes will generate risk information pertinent to keeping our firefighters and the public safe.
We will encourage a learning environment in which we support, develop, and enable all our employees to be at their best, with the health and well-being of our staff a priority. In addition, we will ensure that we are resilient when responding to major incidents by collaborating with our blue light partners to provide a joint and effective emergency response.
We will continue working towards delivering an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects and serves our communities.
Our District performance indicators in 2024 / 25 were positive, and we will build upon these to further reduce them during 2025 / 26 to ensure Wakefield is a safer place to live, visit, work, and enjoy.
