Fire and Rescue Services

1. Introduction
Peter Murphy, Kirsten Greenhalgh

2. 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

3. Consolidation and Improvement: Fire and Rescue Under the New Labour Administrations 2005–2010
Peter Murphy, Kirsten Greenhalgh

4. Another Turn of the Screw: Fire and Rescue Under the Coalition Government of 2010–2015
Peter Murphy, Laurence Ferry

5. Peer Challenge: A Sector-Led Approach to Performance Improvement in Fire and Rescue Services
James Downe, Steve Martin, Heike Doering

6. Collaboration in the Emergency Services
Eddie Kane

7. Governance and Accountability to Service Users
Julian Clarke

8. The Making of a Hero: An Exploration of Heroism in Disasters and Implications for the Emergency Services
Anne Eyre

9. Older Firefighters: A Problem to Be Managed or a Resource to Be Valued?
Anita Pickerden

10. Feeling the Heat? Management Reform and Workforce Diversity in the English Fire Service
Rhys Andrews, Rachel Ashworth

11. The Use of Equality and Equality Frameworks by Fire and Rescue Services
Julian Clarke

12. Governance Matters
Catherine Farrell

13. Scottish Fire and Rescue Services Reform 2010–2015
Lynda Taylor, Peter Murphy, Kirsten Greenhalgh

14. Command and Control of Fire and Rescue Operations in Sweden
Stefan Svensson

15. 2016 and the Future: Changing the Governance Paradigm as Well as the Operating Environment if Not the Financial Context
Peter Murphy, Kirsten Greenhalgh

Nyckelord: Medicine & Public Health, Emergency Services, Public Administration, Public Health