Fire and rescue publications

Publication — Memorandum of understanding — 14 October 2020

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

Publication — Grenfell, Terms of reference — 13 October 2020

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 — 25 March 2020

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 — 19 February 2020

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 — 12 February 2020

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

Publication — Annual reports — 15 January 2020

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.

Publication — Fire & rescue services, FRS methodology, Research and evaluation — 15 January 2020

In 2019, HMICFRS commissioned BMG Research to undertake a study of the public’s perceptions of local fire and rescue services across England. The study covers the public’s views and experiences of local fire and rescue services’ activities.

Publication — Effectiveness, Efficiency, Fire & rescue services, People — 17 December 2019

This inspection assesses how effectively and efficiently London Fire Brigade prevents, protects the public against and responds to fires and other emergencies. We also assess how well it looks after the people who work for the service.

Publication — Effectiveness, Fire & rescue services, Revisit — 17 December 2019

During our inspection of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, in June 2019, we identified a cause of concern about how effective the service is at keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks. We asked the service to submit an action plan setting out how it would address this cause of concern. We revisited Essex between 11 and 13 November 2019 to review progress against the action plan. 

Publication — Effectiveness, Efficiency, Fire & rescue services, People — 17 December 2019

This inspection assesses how effectively and efficiently Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service prevents, protects the public against and responds to fires and other emergencies. We also assess how well it looks after the people who work for the service.