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  1. Published on: 25/05/2016 06:41 AMReported by: roving-eye
    Reforms will make fire and rescue more efficient, more effective and more professional than ever before.



    The Home Secretary today unveiled a programme of reform for fire and rescue services that promises to be as radical and ambitious as that delivered in policing since 2010.

    Speaking at an event hosted by Reform, Theresa May praised the achievements of fire and rescue services, whose fire prevention work has contributed to a fall in the number of fires in England of two-thirds in the last 15 years, while the number of fire deaths has almost halved during the same period.

    The Home Secretary paid tribute to firefighters’ “deep understanding of the needs and risks of the communities they serve” and the wide-ranging role the fire and rescue service now plays in keeping people safe from harm.

    She also outlined the scale of the challenge still facing fire and rescue services and underlined the need for reform. A total of 263 people lost their lives to fire in England last year and 7,500 more were injured, with some of the most vulnerable groups in our society disproportionately represented among the victims, including older people, those living alone and people whose behaviours, lifestyle or housing places them at greater risk. Meanwhile, the insurance industry estimates that the annual cost which fire places on businesses runs to hundreds of millions of pounds, and experience shows that many firms never recover.

    Theresa May said:

    Over the course of this Parliament I intend to deliver a programme of reform in the fire and rescue service that is as radical and ambitious as I have delivered in policing since 2010. The reforms I have set out today will make fire and rescue more accountable, more effective and more professional than ever before. They will build on great strides in prevention and collaboration that fire and rescue services have already made.

    But when I look at the fire and rescue service I see a service that has succeeded in spite of the framework it operates in, not because of it. A fire and rescue landscape still beset by poor governance and structures, a workforce lacking diversity and still bound by many of the old ways of working. And a service that requires further reform to improve accountability, bring independent scrutiny and drive transparency.

    In the last 10 years, the overall size of the fire workforce has not changed significantly despite the number of incidents attended falling by 42%. The challenge facing senior fire officers is therefore how to reform the workforce to meet a completely different risk and demand model.

    The Home Secretary emphasised the potential to deliver efficiencies and savings which will not only save taxpayers’ money but also improve the working lives of fire service employees.

    She announced that the reform programme will focus on areas including:


    introducing a rigorous and independent inspection regime of fire and rescue services to replace the current peer review system

    challenging services to transform the diversity of a firefighter workforce that is

    currently 96% white and 95% male (diversity data will be published to allow the public to gauge how representative their local service currently is)
    publishing comparative procurement data from every fire and rescue authority in
    England to show how much each pays for common items like uniform, operational kit and vehicles to encourage services to pool their purchasing power and buy collectively
    egislating to give Police and Crime Commissioners the ability to take on responsibility for fire and rescue services where a local case is made to bring greater accountability to the work of local fire and rescue services
    The Home Secretary added:

    I am not going to pretend that reform in fire and rescue will be easy or straightforward. Meaningful and lasting reform never is. But with fire and rescue in the Home Office and with a real appetite for change, I believe now is the time to deliver the change that is needed.

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  3. silver fox says:25/05/2016 07:16 AM
    Reform????? in Tory speak that invariably translates as cuts and privatisation, probably handing more public money to the likes of G4S, the super efficient company, who manage to make a mess or fiddle out of everything they touch, note the successful privatisation of the 999 call centre in Leicester, in order to maintain an illusion of efficiency, staff made over 1,000 calls under the guise of test calls, these calls were of course answered quickly helping to keep the average response time within targets.

  4. cotton man says:25/05/2016 08:24 AM
    G4s Made a total mess of the 20/12 Olimpic games too.

  5. Broadsword says:25/05/2016 08:29 AM
    "Reform" - What a load of boll***s.

    "In the last 10 years, the overall size of the fire workforce has not changed significantly despite the number of incidents attended falling by 42%."

    Back in 1989 there were over 1600 Firefighters, now Merseyside is down to 740.
    We had 42 fire appliances, now 28 and that may be reduced as well.

    Theresa May, doesn't know her a*** from her elbow, but she'd have a better chance of a getting a job in the current Fire Service......

  6. BrigNowPort says:25/05/2016 08:32 AM
    I assume we'll all be voting for Fire Commissioners soon?

  7. terrytibs says:25/05/2016 11:31 AM
    MFS Were on Granada reports http://www.itv.com/news/granada/upda...r-11m-in-cuts/

    And the same dumb *** woman wants to spy on everyone en-mass and break the internet whilst she is at it ,

    The fire service is already less effective due to the tories cuts and then they add insult by also expecting the fire service to deal with calls that the ambulance service would normally deal with Time we said goodbye for ever to this type of government

    Also this economic growth they keep on harping on about , and us no longer being in a recession has to be absolute lies otherwise why continue to cut vital services ?
    Last edited by terrytibs; 25/05/2016 at 12:15 PM.

  8. Orb says:25/05/2016 12:11 PM
    Theresa May should not have the authority to make decisions on what to do with vital community services, especially when 100% of her brain activity is used up just activating that talking sphincter of hers.

  9. silver fox says:25/05/2016 06:53 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by cotton man View Post
    G4s Made a total mess of the 20/12 Olimpic games too.
    Come to think about it, is there anything were G4S have improved or been successful in any of the operation of public sector/service work?, apart from of course managing to fill their boots with taxpayer's money, courtesy of this government which continues to award contracts to this company in spite of previous failings, I do wonder why?

  10. Greywolf says:26/05/2016 07:20 AM
    She seems to be more concerned that the service is mostly white male than anything else. Now me, if my house is on fire and I'm trapped, I'm not going to ask if the crew being sent has the right number of none white/women/gay/lesbian/little green men from Mars in it. We had this with the so called police service, where to allow such quotas, they were forced to lower such things as height. Again I' always found in the past, if you had a problem, say a fight at a pub. A six foot plus police officer crashing through the door had a better effect that a five foot six one, regardless of colour sex or gender.


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