Independent Review
Further work on the preparation of new
legislation for the fire service was postponed as a result
of developments within the fire service in the autumn of
2002: the fire dispute and the UK Government's launch of
the Independent Review of the Fire Service. The report of
the review
The Future of the Fire Service: reducing risk, saving
lives was published in December 2002 and is
available at:
http://www.irfs.org.uk/docs/future/index.htm