1. West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service RMB Meeting – 9 th July 2008 Presentation By Martin Burrell

2. 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

3. Governance Issues  Business Case to be published (W/C 30 th June!!) Tuesday 8 th July (Regional Appendix only)  Initial projection for South East (£1.5m)  Business Case difficulties with I T solution  RMB attitude towards initial projections  RMB/LACC ‘Governance’ issue  SE Business Plan being developed  Company Director training plan agreed

4. Building Issues  ‘Practical Completion’ in May 2008  Interim Furniture and IT solutions being implemented  CLG have taken ownership of building lease  Facilities Management Contract has been let nationally

5. 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

6. ‘Out of Scope’ Activities  Work progressing within FRS  May require fundamental ‘rethink’ as to FRS and RCC provision of ‘O of S’

7. Convergence  ‘New Ways of Working’ (NWoW) revised title for Convergence  Task and Finish Group being formed within CFOA  Aim 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

8. Risk  FRS may not achieve Data Migration in time  FRS may not be able to achieve ‘NWoW’ in time  Training Delivery  Funding  Capacity at FRS’s and CLG to achieve in time

9. Firelink  Phase ‘A’ ‘successfully’ completed. (Equipment into existing control room/sample vehicles)  Next step – ‘Sign-Off’ of installation  Phase ‘B’ Vehicle install. (Sept – Jan 09 not confirmed).  Changes with CLG SE Implementation Team