The strategic goals we have set ourselves, and this strategy as a whole, inform and are informed by our Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP), which is in turn informed by your views and opinions as shared through our 2023 public consultation. 

The CRMP is an assessment of the foreseeable challenges and risks facing our communities and what needs to be done to meet them. 

We use this analysis to inform the strategic goals, as well as to determine the specific projects we will undertake to achieve those goals and address the risks.

Our Strategy is a three-year rolling strategy, previously called 'Our Plan', which sets out how our goals and how we will measure and achieve them. 

Our strategic goals, based on our Community Risk Management Plan, is presented in four areas aligned to how we organise our service. 

These all contribute to our vision of making the West Midlands safer, stronger and healthier. Explore our new strategy via the button below.

Data drives more and more of our work to make the West Midlands safer, stronger and healthier.

It helps us to understand risks across the areas we serve. We use it to create our Community Risk Management Plan and three-year rolling strategy.

Now, you, our communities, can explore some of this data yourself in our new 'Risk Explorer' tool!

All you need to do is enter your postcode, then you can explore and interact with the same data we use! You'll be able to see incidents to which we’ve responded near you, our response times, and even the different levels of risk for various emergency types. There’s also lots of handy demographic info, and you can turn different data on and off.