SHAPE for Blue Light
SHAPE allows you to model options for optimising your estate and resources, whilst maintaining emergency response times and ensuring resilience.
Our team of experienced data analysts and strategic consultants can work with you to ensure your emergency service has the right people, the right fleet and the right facilities in the right place, at the right time. We can also work with you to identify efficiencies whilst maximising your coverage and help you plan for future population changes.
SHAPE for blue light services also enables collaboration across organisations. Through the One Public Estate (OPE) programme, and the more recent Place Pilot on behalf of Office of Government Property, we help partners share estate data, identify joint opportunities, and create business cases that deliver better value for money and improved community outcomes.
We work with all blue light services, including Police, Fire & Rescue and Ambulance.
How SHAPE can support you:
- Mapping coverage and response times to identify hotspots and gaps
- Scenario planning for changes to estates and resources
- Analysing demand and response trends by geography, time and type
- Forecasting population growth and demographic change
- Ensuring resilience around high-risk locations, events and infrastructure
- Visualising your estate and resources in one platform
- Creating a one-stop-shop for estate and operational data
- Travel time analysis across different geographies
- Supporting resource planning to meet changing demand
- Planning for the future of your estate and service delivery
- Supporting cross-organisational working through One Public Estate partnerships
Client in the spotlight
We worked with a fire and rescue service to help them understand their local population, supporting them to model options to optimise their resources whilst maintaining emergency response times and major incident coverage, all with the aim of reducing community risk.
Understanding your operational pressures
With extensive experience in supporting blue light organisations to get a better understanding of their resources, our expert team of consultants and data analysts can get under the skin of your organisation to build a picture of current demands and pressures.
Strategic advice
By asking the right questions and offering an independent view, we can help you plan for future demands. With increasing pressure from the public and reduced resources, efficiency planning and resilience are key – we can help provide clear, practical advice aligned to your organisational goals.
Underpinned by data insight
SHAPE provides insight into where the biggest draw on your resource sits, whether that’s staffing levels, fleet locations or emergency response times in relation to the biggest risk areas and highest demands. Understanding the facts and seeing it visually mapped will help inform your key decisions.
