The importance of good governance

Murphy, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4448, 2025. The importance of good governance. Fire, Jan 20. ISSN 0142-2510

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Abstract

UK Fire Services both individually and collectively, have recently been beset by significant challenges that will be only too familiar to regular readers of this magazine.

The inspectorate’s disturbing thematic reports on Values, Culture and the handling of misconduct, together with independent reports into the London Fire Brigade and the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service led the current Crime, Policing and Fire to claim that a significant number of services are “institutionally misogynistic, racist, and homophobic” when she was Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee (Johnson 2024). The political, corporate and leadership omnishambles in the West Midlands around England’s second largest Fire and Rescue Service has recently led the Chief Inspector Andy Cooke to consult the Secretary of State about a Best Value Inspection (and I suspect a potential formal Intervention) into the effectiveness of the governance of the WMFRS, and the relationships between senior personnel (Cooke 2024) both within the service and with its key stakeholders.

What these issues have in common is the inadequacy and/or the failure of the leadership, governance and accountability arrangements that should be in place to ensure that the intended outcomes for the public and stakeholders are clearly defined, demonstrably achieved, and appropriately captured and reported on the public record.

Item Type:	Professional or trade journal contribution
Alternative Title:	What is ‘good governance in the public sector’ and how can we develop it in fire and rescue services?
Publication Title:	Fire
Creators:	Murphy, P.
Publisher:	Fire Knowledge Ltd
Date:	24 January 2025
Volume:	Jan 20
ISSN:	0142-2510
Identifiers:	Number Type 2428367 Other
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	17 Apr 2025 08:57
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2025 08:57
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53426

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