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The Fire Brigades Union has responded to the Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services State of Fire and Rescue 2021 report. The report includes an attack on firefighters’ right to democratically organise, including a recommendation to consider removing firefighters’...

A new report into the state of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service largely ignores indications that austerity is taking a toll on the service, the local Fire Brigades Union has claimed. HMICFRS has statutory responsibility for the inspection of fire and rescue services and police forces across the...

Greater Manchester fire and rescue is suffering from the effects of austerity, the Fire Brigades Union has claimed after the release of an inspection into the service. HMICFRS has statutory responsibility for the inspection of fire and rescue services and police forces across the country. Their...

The Fire Brigades Union has said that a set of inspections, released today, confirm that fire and rescue services across the country are struggling to provide basic functions. The reports are from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, which has statutory...

The FBU has raised questions over the death of an elderly man in a Surrey house fire last week, after the first fire engine took 13 minutes to arrive. A nearby fire station had recently been moved to daytime-only cover, meaning that the fire engine likely took “substantially” longer to arrive than...

According to new figures the number of Welsh firefighters has declined since last year, with figures now standing at between 7 and 19 per cent lower than 2010 across Wales – a fall of almost 450 firefighters. Across the last year alone Wales has seen a decline of 44 firefighters. Cerith Griffiths...

Firefighter numbers have reached a new low since the beginning of austerity in 2010. One in five firefighter roles which existed in 2010 no longer exist, according to figures released today, with a fall in numbers of 11,680 since then. The figures have been released just prior to Priti Patel’s...

Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack has told a cross-party committee of MPs that “governments for decades” have been responsible for reducing emphasis on fire safety, in a session on post-Grenfell building rule changes yesterday. He said “I lived through a decade where the endless...

Firefighters must be ready to fight ‘tooth and nail’ for their service, say the Fire Brigades Union, after the appointment of former National Fire Chief’s Council (NFCC) chair Roy Wilsher as a government advisor on forthcoming reform to fire and rescue services in England. Wilsher, who served at the...