Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service and North Wales Fire and Rescue Service have jointly appointed Crest Advisory to facilitate an independent cultural review.

The Review follows the Welsh Government’s acceptance in March of a proposal from both fire and rescue services to better understand the progress of improvements to organisational culture in each service. The proposal formed the basis of a written statement by the then Deputy Minister for Social Partnership, Hannah Blythyn MS.

The Review has now launched an online survey and written submissions to hear the views and lived experiences of all current staff and former staff employed after 1 June 2021.

The survey and opportunities for written submissions will be open until early November. The Review team will provide further information on how you can register your interest for an interview or focus group at a later date. Expressions of interest for interviews and focus groups will open in September and will be held in late October.

Please note that the Review team are undertaking the interviews and focus groups for each fire and rescue service separately so that the same team can focus equally on each service and to ensure an equal amount of time is spent undertaking engagement with current and former staff in both areas. This means we will open the expressions of interest for each service’s interviews and focus groups separately.

The Review’s focus is on the safety and well-being of current and former fire and rescue staff and to protect you, the reporting of data obtained through the survey, written submissions, or interviews and focus groups will be anonymised / pseudonymised. Information shared with the Review will remain confidential, unless there are safeguarding or criminal issues raised that require the Review team to share this information with a third party, such as the police.

To find out more information, please visit the Review website page here: https://www.crestadvisory.com/independent-culture-review. This page is available in Welsh and English.

If you have any further questions about the Review, please get in touch with the Review team at frsculturereview@crestadvisory.com