Fire and rescue service - Fire and emergencies. Issue It’s important that local communities can be resilient in the event of major emergencies.
We work with local and national bodies to ensure they work and communicate together effectively to respond to and recover from emergencies. Actions Working with local resilience forums The government’s aim is to reduce the risk from emergencies so that people can go about their business freely and with confidence, and the Cabinet Office co-ordinates the central government response. A local resilience forum is a formal group made up of representatives from local public services including the police, fire and ambulance services, local councils, the NHS, the Environment Agency and other organisations that have a duty or an interest in planning for major emergencies. DCLG provides a national network of advisers who work closely with all 38 local resilience forums throughout England to: Working with local strategic co-ordinating groups when emergencies happen Providing strategic support Background.
Www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmpubacc/1397/1397.pdf. The failure of the FiReControl project - Public Accounts Committee. The failure of the FiReControl project. "This is yet another example of a Government IT project taking on a life of its own, absorbing ever-increasing resources without reaching its objectives.
The rationale and benefits of a regional approach were unclear and badly communicated to locally accountable fire and rescue services who remained unconvinced. The failure of the FiReControl project - Public Accounts Committee. Www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmcomloc/352/352.pdf. Labour's FiReControl project a £500m failure. Labour's FiReControl project, launched by then Local Government Secretary John Prescott, has been condemned by a damning Public Accounts Committee report as a 'complete failure' that lost the taxpayer 'nearly half a billion pounds...on costly white elephants' and 'one of the worst [project failures] we have seen for many years'.
MPs torch failed FiReControl project. MPs have strongly criticised the FiReControl project to revamp communications for England's fire and rescue services, calling it a total failure that wasted at least £469m of taxpayers' money.
MPs have slammed the FiReControl project to revamp communications for England's fire and rescue services as a 'complete failure'. FiReControl was cancelled in 2010 after six years of development with nothing to show IT-wise bar nine "white elephant" control rooms with no technical capability, noted Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
The committee issued its report into the project, which was initially budgeted at £120m, on Tuesday. "The contract to implement a national IT system linking the control centres was not even awarded until a full three years after the project started. The contract itself was poorly designed and awarded to a company without relevant experience.
Canned FireControl project labelled ‘worst government IT failure’ by MPs. The scrapped £469m FireControl project has been singled out by MPs as the worst government IT failure in many years.
Critics may point to this judgement as indicative of how serious the project's systemic flaws must have been, given the public sector's track record for troubled major IT programmes. FireControl intended to abolish 46 local fire and rescue control rooms around the country and replace them with nine regional control centres. But the IT system was never delivered and eight of the centres remain vacant.
Around half a billion pounds has been lost to the taxpayer as a result of the project, which was cancelled in December 2010. The contract to implement a national IT system linking the control centres was not even awarded until a full three years after the project started. The department now plans to spend a further £84.8m to secure the original objectives of FireControl, so there is a co-ordinated response to national incidents. Email Alerts. FiReControl Project: silly name, stupid idea – but you and I will pay for the fiasco. Www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/hc1012/hc12/1272/1272.pdf.
Failed fire project wasted £469m, says committee of MPs. A project to set up nine regional control centres for fire and rescue services in England was a "complete failure" and wasted £469m, MPs say.
The Failure of the FiReControl Project: HC 1397, Fiftieth Report of Session 2010-12 - Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence. Author: House of Commons - Committee of Public Accounts Publisher: TSO (The Stationery Office) Price: £11.00.
MPs shoot fire control project down in flames. Labour launched FiReControl (sic) in 2004.
Following a series of major delays and cost overuns, it was scrapped in December 2010 by the current government. Public Accounts Committee publishes report into FiReControl project. PAC: FireControl is one of worst IT project failures in years. Memorandum to the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee: FiReControl project.