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Fire and resilience
Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser
The Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser, Sir Ken Knight, and his team provide strategic advice and guidance to ministers, civil servants, fire and rescue services in England and other stakeholders (including the devolved administrations), on the structure, organisation and performance of the Fire and Rescue Service.
The work of the Office of the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser includes:
- the commissioning, quality assurance and publication of operational guidance
- the co-ordination of national assets during catastrophic and major incidents through the Communities and Local Government Emergency Room and the National Strategic Advisory Team
- the audit of the fire safety arrangements in Crown Premises on a risk assessed basis
- providing a broader challenge to specific policy areas where necessary, particularly on equality and diversity
- the maintenance and updating, together with the Chief Fire Officers' Association (CFOA), of the Operational Assessment of Service Delivery toolkit, used by Fire and Rescue Authorities for self assessment and peer review
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seeking to ensure that the Government is able to engage influentially in debate on Fire and Rescue Service issues and that the Service's interests are effectively represented by the Government both nationally and internationally
