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Representing the following Fire & Rescue Services:

West Midlands

Staffordshire

Hereford & Worcester

Shropshire

Warwickshire

Executive Summary

The independent review of fire services undertaken by Sir George Bain identified many recommendations for reform and modernisation. These recommendations have been developed and refined by Government within the initial draft 'Fire and Rescue National Framework: 2004/05' and subsequent 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006-08 and current 2008-11 framework documents. The framework documents place responsibilities upon fire and rescue authorities, who through regional collaboration, are required to accomplish modernisation and reform of the fire and rescue services.

The framework documents mandate fire and rescue authorities to establish Regional Management Boards (RMB). Each RMB is required to institute:

clear aims and objectives; delegated powers that are appropriate to those aims and objectives; plans for meeting the requirements of six key areas identified by Sir George Bain, and provide sufficient evidence to demonstrate the capacity - both resources and expertise - to deliver those plans

This website details West Midlands Regional Management Board's (WMRMB) Modernisation Programme Plan 2008-11 for addressing Government's agenda of reform and modernisation of the region's fire and rescue services. This website acts as the region's strategic business plan and sets out WMRMB's framework in which to plan, develop and govern regional modernisation and reform.

WMRMB's mission is to deliver a proactive partnership to the region's communities that satisfies the needs of the present, prepares for the future and insures against the unpredictable. WMRMB has a collective vision is to realise the full potential of Service collaboration, thereby resulting in the delivery of improved efficiencies and secure enhanced operational resilience across the West Midlands Region. In delivering this vision the region aims to deliver the co-ordinated organisation, direction and implementation of a portfolio of projects and activities that together achieve the outcomes and realise the benefits of a modernised and reformed fire and rescue service.

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