Fire and rescue service
We work with county, combined, metropolitan and London fire authorities across England.
On 31 January 2008 we published the results of our fire and rescue performance assessment for 2007.
The results show that all fire services across England improved their performance in preventing fires and saving lives over the past year, with deaths from fires are at their lowest levels in fifty years. Better fire prevention work is key to bringing the number of fires and deaths down further. Over half of fire services are improving well in preventing fires, but there are early signs that performance is starting to level off, with the rate of improvement in a quarter of fire services slowing since last year.
Our national report gives the scores and analysis for all services. Results scorecards for individual fire services can be accessed from our find your fire service tool.
Assessing performance in 2008
We have published our overall approach to assessing the fire service in 2008.
Corporate assessments
In August 2007 we published the fire and rescue comprehensive performance assessment. This report sets out the Commission's approach for fire and rescue comprehensive performance assessment (fire CPA). The arrangements will run from until March 2009.
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