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Organisational Culture in the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

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Thematic inspections

18th June 2025

Describes how the SFRS sets out its corporate expectations, how it communicates these to its workforce, how it supports its staff, and how it ensures compliance through policies and process.
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Corporate Expectations
  • Other examples of Values and Ethics in the Emergency Services
  • The SFRS Workforce
  • Human Resource Management Structure within the SFRS
  • Recruitment, Induction and Promotion
  • Staff Training and Development
  • HR Procedures
  • Culture Activities within the SFRS
  • The Workforce Viewpoint
  • Conclusions
  • List of Recommendations and Areas for Consideration
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Glossary
  • Endnotes
  • Footnotes

  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Corporate Expectations
  • Other examples of Values and Ethics in the Emergency Services
  • The SFRS Workforce
  • Human Resource Management Structure within the SFRS
  • Recruitment, Induction and Promotion
  • Staff Training and Development
  • HR Procedures
  • Culture Activities within the SFRS
  • The Workforce Viewpoint
  • Conclusions
  • List of Recommendations and Areas for Consideration
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Glossary
  • Endnotes
  • Footnotes

We are grateful to all those persons that we engaged with during the course of our inspection, who provided us with information and contributed constructively to interviews during our fieldwork. We are also grateful to Professor Paresh Wankhade of Edge Hill University, and Mark Cashin QFSM DL, retired Chief Officer of Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service, for agreeing to act as advisors, providing key inputs, quality assurance peer review and academic rigour to our inspection process and to this report.

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