West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service

RMB Meeting – 9th July 2008

PresentationBy

Martin Burrell

Governance Issues

Local Authority Controlled Company (LACC) formed

Regional Control Centre Director (RCCD) appointed – Matt Goodwin

Interim HR Advisor appointed - (Shani Moyle)

Member Support / Administrator appointed (WSCC)

Financial Advisor being appointed

Governance Issues

Business Case to be published (W/C 30th June!!) Tuesday 8th July (Regional Appendix only)

Initial projection for South East (£1.5m)Business Case difficulties with I T solutionRMB attitude towards initial projectionsRMB/LACC ‘Governance’ issueSE Business Plan being developedCompany Director training plan agreed

Building Issues

‘Practical Completion’ in May 2008Interim Furniture and IT solutions

being implementedCLG have taken ownership of

building leaseFacilities Management Contract

has been let nationally

Award of Infrastructure Contracts

Difficulties experienced by FRS’s in making system changes• Limited information from National Project

Team and EADS• This has resulted in ‘compression’ of

national time lines• Work has started on EADS supplied Data

Creation and Migration equipment• FRS data ‘Teams’ being developed• Testing – rigorous testing regime in place• Training – concern with over arching plan

‘Out of Scope’ Activities

Work progressing within FRS

May require fundamental ‘rethink’ as to FRS and RCC provision of ‘O of S’

Convergence ‘New Ways of Working’ (NWoW) revised

title for ConvergenceTask and Finish Group being formed within

CFOAAim for South East Collaborative Policies

and Procedures. E.g. PDA’s Attributes, Special Service changes

Staffing for Fareham Go Live. CLG cutover Plan requires a pool of personnel. SE Project Team working with CLG

Risk

FRS may not achieve Data Migration in time

FRS may not be able to achieve ‘NWoW’ in time

Training DeliveryFundingCapacity at FRS’s and CLG to achieve

in time

Firelink

Phase ‘A’ ‘successfully’ completed. (Equipment into existing control room/sample vehicles)

Next step – ‘Sign-Off’ of installationPhase ‘B’ Vehicle install. (Sept – Jan 09

not confirmed).Changes with CLG SE Implementation

Team