London firefighters to protest against savage cuts
This report presents an assessment of Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service following an inspection in November 2012. It is an examination of how the Service is addressing issues raised in the 2012 Accounts Commission report into the Service. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0041/00412188.pdf
The FBU has joined Strathclyde FRS in critisicing comments made by Audit Scotland this week. A Press release from Strathclyde FRS, with supportive comments from the FBU EC member is available here
Further clarification on the development of structures. Some initial work has been done and has lead to a high level discussion document that outlines some options. This was not and was never intended to be a proposed structure. The FBU has deliberately not circulated this as;1 - it was likely to be misleading - effectively this would be like saying "here is a document that is not a draft structure that will not be the final structure." 2 - ongoing work has rapidly superceded this document.