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SECTION A — NATIONAL JOINT COUNCIL Circular NJC/01/2010 24 February 2010 Dear Sir/Madam NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS 1. At the last meeting of the National Joint Council (NJC) members considered a report from the NJC’s joint sub- Committee on rolemaps and national occupational standards. 2. The joint sub-committee had received a request from FRSVSG to amend the national occupational standards relating to the role of firefighter in order to reflect the standards now developed by Skills for Justice. 3. The joint sub-Committee considered the proposed national occupational standards identifying a small number of amendments to ensure that, if accepted, the NJC documents would remain fire and rescue specific and take in to account the need to be mindful of the contractual situation. 4. The NJC accepted the recommendation of the joint sub- Committee contained within the report to replace the existing firefighter national occupational standards with those attached. However, this was subject to a successful approach to UKCES to ask them to amend the national occupational standards used for the NVQ process to reflect the wording adopted by the NJC in order to avoid inconsistency. 5. We write to advise you that UKCES has now confirmed it is content to take such action. 6. As such, the attached national occupational standards (Appendix A) replace in their entirety those currently in use by the NJC in relation to the firefighter rolemap. 7. Furthermore, the NJC agreed that given the new occupational standards no longer make individual reference to assessment, the attached table be adopted by the NJC in respect of use of simulation (Appendix B). Yours faithfully SARAH MESSENGER Joint Secretaries MATT WRACK 28 FBU Annual Report 2011
Section Fire and rescue service policy B1 Introduction Fire and rescue service policy is a matter devolved to the respective government bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In relation to English fire and rescue services, government policy remains the responsibility of Communities and Local Government (CLG). B2 FRS policy – government responsibility – England Responsibility for the fire and rescue service for England, and to some extent the UK through the provision of guidance advice, lies with Communities and Local Government (CLG). The secretary of state for Communities and Local Government is the Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP. Ministers with a direct relationship with fire are Bob Neill MP as the parliamentary under secretary of state and the Rt Hon Grant Shapps, minister for housing and local government. CLG’s stakeholder bodies for the fire service in 2010 continued to be the Practitioners’ Forum (PF) and the Business and Community Safety Forum (BCSF). Dave Sibert, the FBU fire safety adviser, represented the TUC on the BCSF until it was disbanded. The general secretary represented the FBU on the Practitioners’ Forum. Late in the year it became apparent that the Practitioners’ Forum would be disbanded early in 2011. The chief fire and rescue adviser (CFRA), who heads the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser’s Unit (CFRAU), provides ministers with strategic advice and guidance on the structure, organisation and performance of the fire and rescue service. The current CFRA is Sir Ken Knight. The principal functions of CFRAU are: ● the commissioning, quality assurance and publication of operational guidance; ● ● ● ● ● the coordination of national assets during catastrophic and major incidents through the Communities and Local Government Emergency Room and the National Strategic Advisory Team; the audit of the fire safety arrangements in Crown premises on a risk-assessed basis; providing a broader challenge to specific policy areas where necessary, particularly on equality and diversity; the maintenance and updating, together with the Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA), of the operational assessment of service delivery toolkit used by fire and rescue authorities for self-assessment and peer review; seeking to ensure that the government is able to engage influentially in debate on fire and rescue service issues and that the service’s interests are effectively represented by the government both nationally and internationally. CLG is divided into a number of departments which deal with matters which intersect with aspects of the fire service function in its widest sense. The primary directorate, however, is the Communities Group. The CFRA is one of two directors within the Communities Group with a direct relationship to the FRS, the other being Neil O’Connor, the fire and resilience director, who succeeded Shona Dunn in that role during 2010. The Fire Brigades Union is represented at a number of key FBU Annual Report 2011 29
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