Fire and Rescue Services

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Gathering Storm: Modernisation, Local Alignment and Collaboration. Fire and Rescue Services Under the Early New Labour Administrations from 1997 to 2005

Chapter 3 Consolidation and Improvement: Fire and Rescue Under the New Labour Administrations 2005–2010

Chapter 4 Another Turn of the Screw: Fire and Rescue Under the Coalition Government of 2010–2015

Chapter 5 Peer Challenge: A Sector-Led Approach to Performance Improvement in Fire and Rescue Services

Chapter 6 Collaboration in the Emergency Services

Chapter 7 Governance and Accountability to Service Users

Chapter 8 The Making of a Hero: An Exploration of Heroism in Disasters and Implications for the Emergency Services

Chapter 9 Older Firefighters: A Problem to Be Managed or a Resource to Be Valued?

Chapter 10 Feeling the Heat? Management Reform and Workforce Diversity in the English Fire Service

Chapter 11 The Use of Equality and Equality Frameworks by Fire and Rescue Services

Chapter 12 Governance Matters

Chapter 13 Scottish Fire and Rescue Services Reform 2010–2015

Chapter 14 Command and Control of Fire and Rescue Operations in Sweden

Chapter 15 2016 and the Future: Changing the Governance Paradigm as Well as the Operating Environment if Not the Financial Context