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News article  —  12 February 2025

Today, we published a letter that provides our general assessment of the progress made by 25 of England’s 44 fire and rescue services on the implementation of the Phase 1 recommendations of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report.

News article  —  1 August 2024

The culture in fire and rescue services is showing some early signs of improvement, but too much unacceptable behaviour remains.

News article  —  8 March 2024

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is performing well and has been congratulated for its performance.

News article  —  19 July 2023

Today we published the terms of reference for a thematic inspection of the handling of misconduct in fire and rescue services.

News article  —  2 September 2022

Today we published a letter on Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service’s progress against a cause of concern we gave in our inspection in 2021.

News article  —  27 July 2022

Fire and rescue services in England are improving but further change is urgently needed – particularly on culture and diversity.

News article  —  15 December 2021

Fire and rescue services in England have made improvements in some areas, but more change is urgently required.

News article  —  15 December 2021

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service needs to do more to protect the public and remains unprepared to respond effectively to a terrorist attack, a new report has found.

News article  —  15 December 2021

HMICFRS has today published the first set of reports from our latest inspection of all fire and rescue services in England.

News article  —  28 September 2021

Today we published a letter from Sir Thomas Winsor to the London Fire Commissioner and the Chief Fire Officer of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service about the suggested pay increase connected to marauding terrorist attacks.