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FIRE MAGAZINE IS THIS YEAR FOCUSING on 'knowledge gaps' in a number of areas of the Service. This article will look at the issues around diversity and examine what the [...]

The ADDRESS (Achieving and Delivering Diversity Results within the Emergency Services Sector) project, which aims to promote diversity training, held its first Transnational Conference on 7-8 December 2006 at the Fire Service College. The conference offered a good opportunity to promote the project's programs in implementing diversity programs in European emergency services.

THIS MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT took place at a time when fire and rescue services were grappling with an enormous number of change initiatives, and was specifically designed to be of [...]

THIS ARTICLE HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN to cover all the 30 speakers of the many workshops that we attended, at what was one of the most comprehensive and focused conferences [...]

The views of fire officers on the need for better management of the diversity initiatives in the Fire and Rescue Service by the newly-selected Chief Fire and Rescue Advisor, Sir Ken Knight, are presented.

The proceedings of the Asian Fire Service Association Conference held in London in April 2007 are described.

ON OCTOBER 1 THIS YEAR THE Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 come into force. The upshot of this EU inspired law is that it will be unlawful to discriminate against [...]

THE TWO DIVERSITY AND equality workshops held at this year's LGA Fire Conference in Cheshire in March (see FIRE March pg 13) were entitled Principles Into Practice and were chaired [...]

THE UK IS A MULTICULTURAL society with a variety of demands and needs to which public services are expected to respond. It is important that all public services have staff [...]

THE SEMINAR WAS CHAIRED BY Jagtar Singh, former Deputy Chief of Bedfordshire and Diversity Advisor at the ODPM. Delegates and speakers were asked to challenge the commitment and achievements that [...]

The trouble with diversity training in the Fire and Rescue Service is that it is not properly supported, measured or resourced, according to research from FireWorks, Anglia Polytechnic University. They [...]

THE GRAINY IMAGES OF TWELVE O'clock High will still feature in the memory of many a Fire Service officer. The case study of Adair's situational leadership theory seem very appropriate [...]

Fire Minister Angela Smith MP and Deputy Assistant Commissioner Rose Fitzpatrick, Metropolitan Police, will be delivering keynote speeches at the conference. Sir Graham Nieldrum will be facilitating the proceedings. The [...]

THE PROJECT HAS BEEN SET UP TO support equality and diversity training and support the Service to develop a better understanding of diversity. The project has 11 partners from six [...]

The article offers information on the Asian Fire Service Association (AFSA) Conference hosted by London Fire Brigade on November 24-25, 2016. Topics discussed include the views of London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson and AFSA Chairman Diane Dunlevey on the issue, changes in the fire and rescue services, AFSA Awards.

The article discusses the annual conference of the Asian Fire Service Association held in 2013. Topics discussed include importance of a learning organisation, integrative leadership in fire services and collaborative working. The conference featured professionals from fire and rescue services including Steve McGuirk, Peter Fahy and Mike Farrar.