Fire and rescue publications

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Publication  —  COVID-19, Letter  — 

In August 2020, we were commissioned by the Home Secretary to inspect how fire and rescue services in England are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This letter from HMI Zoe Billingham to Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service sets out our assessment of the effectiveness of the service’s response to the pandemic.

Publication  —  COVID-19, Letter  — 

In August 2020, we were commissioned by the Home Secretary to inspect how fire and rescue services in England are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This letter from HMI Zoe Billingham to Kent Fire and Rescue Service sets out our assessment of the effectiveness of the service’s response to the pandemic.

Publication  —  COVID-19, Letter  — 

In August 2020, we were commissioned by the Home Secretary to inspect how fire and rescue services in England are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This letter from HMI Zoe Billingham to Essex Fire and Rescue Service sets out our assessment of the effectiveness of the service’s response to the pandemic.

Publication  —  COVID-19, Letter  — 

In August 2020, we were commissioned by the Home Secretary to inspect how fire and rescue services in England are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This letter from HMI Zoe Billingham to Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service sets out our assessment of the effectiveness of the service’s response to the pandemic.

Publication  —  Memorandum of understanding  — 

The Fire Standards Board (FSB) and HMICFRS both promote improvements in fire and rescue services in England.

Publication  —  Grenfell, Terms of reference  — 

The Home Secretary commissioned HMICFRS to review the governance and progress of London Fire Brigade’s action plan to implement the recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Fire & rescue services, Revisit  — 

During our inspection of Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service, in November 2018, we identified a cause for concern about the service’s fire engine availability and whether its firefighters had the necessary safety critical skills to respond to emergencies. The service submitted an action plan setting out how it would address the cause for concern. This letter sets out the findings of our second revisit to review progress.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Fire & rescue services, Revisit  — 

During our inspection of West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, in November 2018, we identified a cause of concern about the management and oversight of the safe and well visit process and the effectiveness of its risk-based inspection service. We asked the service to submit an action plan setting out how it would address this cause of concern.

Publication  —  Business Plans, Inspection programmes  — 

This document sets out HMICFRS’s fire and rescue service inspection programme and framework for 2020/21.

Publication  —  Annual reports  — 

This is Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Fire & Rescue Services’ report to the Secretary of State under section 28B of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004. It contains his assessment of the sector in England, based on the inspections we carried out between June 2018 and August 2019.

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