Request
Please find below an FoI request for your consideration.
I would like the information to be emailed to me to this email address if possible.
Please could you provide the number of fire checks carried out at schools in the Colchester borough in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Also the amount of enforcement notices issued to schools. Please provide a breakdown of the name of each individual school checked and handed an enforcement notice if applicable.
The number of times firefighters have been called out to assist the ambulance service move bariatric patients in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Response
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold the information you have requested.
Questions and final response:
Question 1 – . Please could you provide the number of fire checks carried out at schools in the Colchester borough in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023? Also, the amount of enforcement notices issued to schools. Please provide a breakdown of the name of each individual school checked and handed an enforcement notice if applicable.
Gosbecks Primary School were visited by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service in 2019, this visit was to perform a Fire Safety Audit.
No other schools within the area have been audited by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service since 2019.
No Enforcement Notices have been issued to any school within the applicable area requested.
Question 2 – The number of times firefighters have been called out to assist the ambulance service move bariatric patients in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023? Volume of Calls received by ECFRS to assist ambulance service to move Bariatric patients - 2019 till present
Year
| Year | Number of Incidents |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2020 | 22 |
| 2021 | 53 |
| 2022 | 55 |
| 2023 | 25 |
| Total | 172 |
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Incident and other data is published on our transparency site. Incident Data (essexfire.gov.uk) .
Please note that the response and data released to you as part of this request will be published on our website http://transparency.essex-fire.gov.uk/.
All requests will be anonymised and no personal information including contact details will be disclosed as part of this process.
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Thank you for your interest in Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, we hope this satisfies your request.
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