Policy

Fire prevention and rescue

• From: Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser and Home Office
• Applies to: England (see policy for Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales)

What the government’s doing about fire prevention and rescue.

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• Essex PCC to take on responsibility of local fire and rescue service

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 26 July 2017

• Major expansion of HMIC to take on inspection of fire and rescue in England

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Home Office and 1 others
  • Updated: 19 July 2017

• Avon Fire and Rescue Authority statutory inspection: report

  • Display type: Corporate report
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 19 July 2017

• Fire Safety Conference 2017: Fire Minister’s speech

  • Display type: Speech
  • From: Department for Communities and Local Government and 1 others
  • Updated: 4 July 2017

• New government guidelines will end the practice of boomerang bosses

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 February 2017

• Re-employing senior fire officers after their retirement

  • Display type: Closed consultation
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 February 2017

• Fire service reform must go further and faster: article by Brandon Lewis

  • Display type: Speech
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 7 February 2017

• Fire Minister's speech to Reform

  • Display type: Speech
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 7 February 2017

• Government commissions full statutory inspection of Avon Fire and Rescue Authority

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 2 February 2017

• Statutory inspection of Avon Fire and Rescue Authority

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 2 February 2017

• Brandon Lewis's speech to the Asian Fire Service Association

  • Display type: Speech
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 24 November 2016

• Fire prevention plans: environmental permits

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 November 2016

• Conditions of service for fire and rescue staff: independent review

  • Display type: Independent report
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 3 November 2016

• Future control room improvements: fire and rescue authority schemes, November 2016

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 2 November 2016

• Integrated risk management planning: guidance

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 27 October 2016

• Fire and rescue authority procurement data

  • Display type: Transparency data
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 24 August 2016

• Home Office publishes fire procurement information for the first time

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 24 August 2016

• Fire and rescue national framework for England

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 4 July 2016

• Fire and rescue national framework: 2016 progress report

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 4 July 2016

• Frances the firefly: children's story about the dangers of fire

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 28 June 2016

• Home Secretary sets out radical fire and rescue reform programme

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 24 May 2016

• Home Secretary speech on fire reform

  • Display type: Speech
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 24 May 2016

• Firefighters' pension schemes: amendments

  • Display type: Closed consultation
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 18 March 2016

• Legislation to allow Police and Crime Commissioners to take responsibility for their local fire service

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 26 January 2016

• Future control room improvements: fire and rescue authority schemes (December 2015 update)

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 15 January 2016

• Fire Minister urges households to test smoke alarms

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 12 January 2016

• Fire and rescue policy to move to the Home Office

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Department for Communities and Local Government and 1 others
  • Updated: 5 January 2016

• Fire safety for disabled people

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Fire safety for Gypsies and Travellers

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Fire safety tips for Christmas

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Fire safety on boats

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Fire safety when celebrating

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Fire safety outdoors

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Department for Communities and Local Government
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Fire safety in the winter

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Fire safety for parents and child carers

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Fire safety in shared or rented accommodation

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Make your home safe from fire

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Proposals for further emergency services collaboration announced

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Department for Communities and Local Government and 1 others
  • Updated: 11 September 2015

• First contract for new emergency services network awarded

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 27 August 2015

• 2010 to 2015 government policy: fire prevention and rescue

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Communities and Local Government and 1 others
  • Updated: 8 May 2015

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government