{"id":80762,"date":"2017-04-12T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8d9669db0b0919fefb57c991069860ae"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:33:49","slug":"news-story-home-office-funds-pccs-to-support-further-police-and-fire-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80762","title":{"rendered":"News story: Home Office funds PCCs to support further police and fire collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Minister for Policing and the Fire Service Brandon Lewis has awarded \u00a31 million from the Police Transformation Fund to 9 police and crime commissioners (<abbr title=\"police and crime commissioners\">PCCs<\/abbr>) for their work in developing proposals to take on the additional responsibility for the governance of fire and rescue in their area.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals are expected to bring about a fundamental shift to the way police and fire services work together, including sharing estates or back office functions. It follows a police-led process which saw funding recommendations made by the Police Reform and Transformation Board.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"police and crime commissioners\">PCCs<\/abbr> who will receive funds are Sussex, West Mercia, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire and North Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Policing and the Fire Service Brandon Lewis said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Further collaboration between the 2 services presents a real opportunity to increase their efficiency and effectiveness \u2013 that\u2019s good for the public as whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\"><abbr title=\"police and crime commissioners\">PCCs<\/abbr> taking on responsibility for fire and rescue services will lead to the same level of public accountability for both services. I am pleased to support those <abbr title=\"police and crime commissioners\">PCCs<\/abbr> who are developing proposals to take on governance of local fire and rescue services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new provisions in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 enable <abbr title=\"police and crime commissioners\">PCCs<\/abbr> to take on responsibility for the governance of local fire and rescue services where a local case is made. It brings the same direct accountability to fire as is already in place with policing and allows <abbr title=\"police and crime commissioners\">PCCs<\/abbr> to drive reform, maximize the benefits of collaboration and ensure best practice is shared.<\/p>\n<p>Several <abbr title=\"police and crime commissioners\">PCCs<\/abbr> are developing proposals to take on governance of local fire and rescue services as the earliest adopters of the new governance provisions. Further <abbr title=\"police and crime commissioners\">PCCs<\/abbr> are expected to bring forward proposals soon and the funding award will ensure that the work and knowledge gained is properly disseminated amongst the policing community.<\/p>\n<p>Set up as part of the spending review in 2015, the fund, which is police-led through the Police Reform and Transformation Board, is designed to allocate extra investment to continue the job of reform and shape policing for the future. <abbr title=\"police and crime commissioners\">PCCs<\/abbr> and chief constable representatives sit on the board alongside senior leaders in policing, with the final decisions on bids made by the Home Secretary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award follows approval from the Police Reform and Transformation Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}