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Our report looks at whether emergency services in Wales are working more closely together to make better use of resources.
Our report suggests that ‘blue light’ emergency service collaboration is slowly growing but requires a step change in activity to maximise impact and make best use of resources.
Emergency services have been working closely together to provide a better service to the public for many years, and they stepped up during the pandemic to help the people of Wales. However, Ministers have been clear that they want to see collaboration between the emergency services go further and faster.
The Joint Emergency Services Group The Group brings together senior leaders from ‘blue light’ services and is leading the collaboration agenda. They established a Strategic Collaboration Board to identify and deliver future joint working opportunities, giving a clear signal that a step change is required. Plans for collaboration are developing but some of these are limited in coverage and not supported by consistent project management arrangements.
From examples cited in our report from the Thames Valley, the East of England and Scotland, it seems as though collaboration appears to be mostly operationally focused, prioritised locally not nationally and is often a tactical response to address a problem or circumstance.
We listed the following critical success factors to help emergency services make changes to improve collaboration.
We have produced this data tool to support our report into Joint Working between Emergency Services in Wales. The Audit Wales report can be found on our website.