Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary said: “The Fire Service College provides world-class training and has a well won reputation for excellence. Today’s announcement is yet another instance of creeping privatisation in the fire and rescue service, and the public will be the losers.
“We need to call a halt to companies profiteering from a public service designed to keep the public safe. The government should be investing in this globally recognised centre of excellence – not hiving it off to profiteers. It is ideologically driven and quite shameful. The fire and rescue service is there to serve the public – and its assets should be owned by them. The vultures are circling because they smell profit.”
