Fire and rescue

The LGA represents the 46 Fire and Rescue Authorities in England. We are taking forward all elements of the modernisation agenda to build a modern, responsive fire service, equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

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Latest news and analysis

• Local Government Group civil emergencies strategy 2010-2013

  This is the LG Group’s first civil emergencies strategy. We want to be better prepared and more effective in the way we help local government and fire and rescue authorities deal with emergencies.

  Added on: 12 July 2010

• Weathering the storm II: Improving UK resilience to severe winter weather

  Our new report examines the issue of winter weather and its effects and makes recommendations not only for local government but also central government, salt suppliers and others.

  Added on: 12 July 2010
  

• ‘Inadequately planned, poorly executed, and badly managed’ - Report of the CLG Select Committee on Fire Control, April 2010

  The LGA's FiReControl briefing summarises the findings of the 2010 CLG Select Committee Inquiry into Fire Control.

  Added on: 29 April 2010
  

• Building the Top Team: a discussion document for Fire and Rescue Authority members

  At the recent LGA fire conference we launched our publication "Building the Top Team: a discussion document for Fire and Rescue Authority members". The fire service has one of the top approval ratings in the public sector but also, on occasion, the service can be inwardly focussed.

  Added on: 10 August 2010
  

• CLG Select Committee Inquiry into Fire Control – summary of evidence session

  On 8 February 2010 the LGA gave oral evidence to the CLG Select Committee inquiry into the Fire Control project. Councillor Brian Coleman, Chairman of the Fire Services Management Committee, and Councillor James Pearson, LGA Senior User, appeared alongside John Bonney from the Chief Fire Officers Association and Matt Wrack of the Fire Brigades Union. The document contains extracts from the oral evidence as well as the LGA's key messages on FiReControl.

  Added on: 17 March 2010
  

• Fire and rescue services on uniformed ill - health retirements, LGA guidance

  The LGA Guidance to Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs) on Uniformed Health is designed to help FRSs in England to manage those medical incapacity and long term sickness cases which may result in an ill health retirement and particularly to enable them to avoid reaching that outcome as far as possible.

  Added on: 26 February 2010
  

• “People like me - advancing opportunity and fairness in the fire and rescue service”

  This report looks at the LGA’s progress since the government launched its Equality and Diversity Strategy for the Fire and Rescue Service in 2008.

  Added on: 17 May 2010
  

• Extinguishing the risk: a councillor’s guide to fire safety

  Last summer’s fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell, south London, in which six people lost their lives, was a tragic reminder of the responsibilities elected members have for safeguarding people in their homes from the danger of fire.

  Added on: 8 February 2010