2010

This circular requests each Fire and Rescue Authority to complete the financial and non financial sections of the attached pensions form (FPF1 2010) by 10 January 2011.

The guidance contains practical advice on fire safety measures for construction sites as well as information on the regulatory regime.

This circular contains revised guidance on the Firefighters' pension schemes and cash equivalent transfer values (CETV) guidance.

This circular is to advise of Dear Chief Fire Officer (Scotland) Letter 12/2010 that was issued 23rd September 2010 regarding UHF Fireground Radios.

This circular provides information on the Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2010 which came into effect on 4 July 2010 and serve to transpose the European Directive 2007/23/EC into UK law.

This circular provides information on the new service which replaces the previous arrangements for delivering home oxygen to patients via local pharmacies.

This circular provides information following an incident involving an external gas supply to a domestic property that resulted in the death of a member of the public which has implications for the Fire and Rescue Service.

This circular provides an introduction and background information on the review of the Fire and Rescue Service Operational Guidance – Generic Risk Assessments (GRAs).

Information about the change to the link from the Retail Price Index (RPI) to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for uprating benefits and advising pension administrators that cash equivalent transfers should not be actioned until revised guidance is issued by the Government Actuary.

This circular sets out the performance indicators (PIs) for Fire and Rescue Authorities that apply to 2010-11.

This circular advises Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRAs) about current problems with calculating certain transfer values; provides guidance on the index linking of split pensions and provides an update on proposals to avoid potential for age discrimination in relation to pension contributions.

This circular relates to the Welsh Government’s Making the Connections targets for efficiency gains in respect of the Fire and Rescue Services for final outturn figures for 2009-10.

Following the Health and Safety Executive review of eight Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRAs) within the UK, the subsequent report findings have been analysed to provide FRAs within Wales an indication as to key areas of potential risk which have been identified.

This circular sets out arrangements for the “Operational Assurance of Service Delivery” assessment process for 2010-11.

This circular requests each Fire and Rescue Authority (FRA) to complete the attached pensions forms (FPF2 and FPF3) by 4 June 2010.