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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  —  12 September 2024

We’ve published an update on Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service’s progress against a cause of concern. It has improved how it communicates with staff and its equality impact assessments, but needs to do more to support its positive action recruitment.

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  —  29 November 2023

Today we published Fire and Rescue Service reports for Hereford and Worcester, Lincolnshire and Northumberland.

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  —  20 January 2023

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

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  —  22 April 2022

Today we published three letters on Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service (FRS), Warwickshire FRS and Northumberland FRS’s progress against causes of concern we gave in our inspections in 2021.

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

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