Fire and rescue services : leadership and management perspectives

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This unique text fills a major gap in the emergency services literature by surveying the research on fire and rescue service management in the UK. An extensive evidence base focuses on organizational culture, leadership skills, standards, and accountability, emphasizing the services’ dual roles as first responders and guardians of public safety and prevention. The implications for international public health and safety programs are made clear as the services’ recent history illustrates the complex challenges typical of functioning within local and national political contexts. Chapters take on a broad range of management, leadership, service delivery, and staffing concerns, including: · Evolution and adaptation of fire and rescue services during periods of expansion and austerity. · Civil protection as a local and national priority. · Structural issues: assessments and improvements, collaborations with other services. · Emerging social concerns: diversity, gender equality, the aging worker population. · The concepts and consequences of heroes and heroism. · Future directions for governance, transparency, and accountability. Fire and Rescue Services complements the earlier volumes in the Leadership & Management of Emergency Servicesseries with equal parts realism and vision. It should interest a wide audience of public policymakers, public managers, and emergency service personnel, as well as academics and researchers. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction (Peter Murphy, Kirsten Greenhalgh)....Pages 1-8 The Gathering Storm: Modernisation, Local Alignment and Collaboration. Fire and Rescue Services Under the Early New Labour Administrations from 1997 to 2005 (Peter Murphy, Kirsten Greenhalgh)....Pages 9-26 Consolidation and Improvement: Fire and Rescue Under the New Labour Administrations 2005–2010 (Peter Murphy, Kirsten Greenhalgh)....Pages 27-44 Another Turn of the Screw: Fire and Rescue Under the Coalition Government of 2010–2015 (Peter Murphy, Laurence Ferry)....Pages 45-59 Peer Challenge: A Sector-Led Approach to Performance Improvement in Fire and Rescue Services (James Downe, Steve Martin, Heike Doering)....Pages 61-75 Collaboration in the Emergency Services (Eddie Kane)....Pages 77-91 Governance and Accountability to Service Users (Julian Clarke)....Pages 93-112 The Making of a Hero: An Exploration of Heroism in Disasters and Implications for the Emergency Services (Anne Eyre)....Pages 113-129 Older Firefighters: A Problem to Be Managed or a Resource to Be Valued? (Anita Pickerden)....Pages 131-144 Feeling the Heat? Management Reform and Workforce Diversity in the English Fire Service (Rhys Andrews, Rachel Ashworth)....Pages 145-158 The Use of Equality and Equality Frameworks by Fire and Rescue Services (Julian Clarke)....Pages 159-177 Governance Matters (Catherine Farrell)....Pages 179-189 Scottish Fire and Rescue Services Reform 2010–2015 (Lynda Taylor, Peter Murphy, Kirsten Greenhalgh)....Pages 191-205 Command and Control of Fire and Rescue Operations in Sweden (Stefan Svensson)....Pages 207-225 2016 and the Future: Changing the Governance Paradigm as Well as the Operating Environment if Not the Financial Context (Peter Murphy, Kirsten Greenhalgh)....Pages 227-233 Back Matter ....Pages 235-240