The RFU has been pushing for more joined up working between fire and rescue services rather than have 51 different ways of doing the same thing. There now seems to be some headway in creating a professional standards body for fire and rescue services in England as part of the governments fire reform programme. While […]
National Frameworks – Fire & Rescue The national framework sets out the government’s expectations and requirements for fire and rescue authorities in England. The government has a duty under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 to produce the framework and keep it current. The Home Secretary reports every 2 years on fire and rescue authorities’ compliance […]
Following on from our previous e-bulletin regarding the national pay offer, we write to bring you a further update. Background Back in May 2017 the FBU submitted to the National Employers a pay claim (an annual process). The document did not contain any figures, only statements relating to additional work currently being undertaken now and […]
In our efforts to keep members as up-to-date as possible, we wanted to provide you with the latest development regarding both the national pay offer and the Emergency Medical Response (EMR) trials. Our previous bulletin confirmed that the FBU had unnecessarily linked the EMR trials with employers pay offer, confirming that they would withdraw from […]