Cleveland Fire Authority (11 Feb 2011)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2011-02-11a.673.0
&s=Retained+Fire#g673.2
Iain Wright: ...Speaker and his office for going out of their way to
help me secure what I view as a very important debate for my area. We
should be in no doubt that having an appropriate, effective and
resilient *fire* and rescue service to cope with incidents is a vital
part of our economy and society. The tragic death in a *fire* at his
home yesterday morning of former England cricketer, Trevor Bailey,...

''The second biggest factor in identifying the risk of a major fire in
cident is social and economic deprivation. A direct correlation exists
between the income of a person and whether that person has a
higher-than-average exposure to fire risk. Teesside has high levels of
unemployment, at about twice the national average, and that jobless total
is rising fast as a result of the Government's economic policy. The most
recent index of multiple deprivation measure showed that 40% of all wards
within the Cleveland fire authority area fall within the worst 10%
nationally. The authority must also deal with the problems of crime and
anti-social behaviour. I am not proud to say that the Cleveland area
suffers from one of the highest arson rates in the country, with an
estimated nine out of 10 fires considered to have been started
deliberately.''

the full report of the debate can be found at this link :
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2011-02-11a.673.0
&s=Retained+Fire#g673.2

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/fire/fireandrescuecontrolservices

Although the consultation is directed at Fire & Rescue professionals &
Local Authority Members of the Fire Authorities, its worth a read and if
you have any thoughts on the questions to pass this on to your Local
Council representative or Fire Authority Council member. Remember, they are
elected to represent the public's view's and unless we ' the public and tax
payers of the said service' let them know what those views are, those
elected, will not know what the public opinion is !

The full document can be found at the following link :

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/fire/pdf/1815528.pdf

The date of Road Safety Week 2011 is 21-27 November 2011. The event is
organised by Brake, the road safety charity, but open to everyone to help
promote road safety during this established national awareness event.

Brake is encouraging schools, communities, companies and road safety
professionals such as emergency services, health workers and local
authorities to get involved.

This years theme is 2young2die

Read the full report here :
http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/2011/1/7/road-safety-week-2011-date-and-theme...

Read the communities posterous sites posts at :
www.moirafirestation.posterous.com
www.forcomm.posterous.com
www.awtf.posterous.com

All CFA meetings are available to the public. Public questions should be
made in writing by 12pm of the day before the meeting is due.

This meeting is planned to start at 2pm at Fire Headquarters

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Anstey Frith
Leicester Road
Glenfield
Leicester
LE3 8HD
Tel 0116 2872241

Leicestershire Combined Fire Authority - Policy Committee
12 January 2011 Agenda
1 Apologies for Absence

2 To receive declarations of interest by members in respect of items on this Agenda

3 Public Participation

4 Chairman’s Announcements

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6 To advise of any other items which the Chairman has decided to take as urgent elsewhere on the Agenda

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Date of Next Meeting - 16 March 2011

All documents for this meeting are available here :
http://www.leicestershire-fire.gov.uk/cfa/agenda/2011-01-12.shtml

(download)

Click here to download:

Leicestershire_Combined_Fire_A.zip (14 KB)

The introduction of the Our Plan states :

The plan sets out what we want to achieve over the next three years, along
with a summary of what we have achieved over the previous year.
It also includes our service charter, so that you know what you can expect
from your fire and rescue service, and what action to take if you are not
happy with the service you receive.
The next three years will present a number of challenges for us, not least
the current financial climate and the need to find efficiency savings. In
this climate we still aim to:
• Achieve efficiencies, balance the budget and
deliver improvements
• Maintain confidence and satisfaction in the
services that we provide whilst continuing to
improve
• Demonstrate strong leadership at all levels of the service, and
demonstrating the qualities to make tough decisions when and if required

We will target our community safety and education initiatives to those who
are most vulnerable and at-risk, whilst continuing to provide a high
quality and effective response to all emergency incidents.
We will continue to work closely with our partners to ensure we provide
high quality services and outcomes for our communities, in the most
efficient and effective way.
We aim to balance competing national government demands with the local
requirements of our communities in order to provide the best possible
quality of life for everyone who lives, works in, visits
and travels through, our area.

The full Our Plan 2010-2013 can be viewed and downloaded here :
http://www.leicestershire-fire.gov.uk/fireservice/our_plan.shtml

The attachments are shown for your ease here shows summary data, that forms
part of the overall report. Both can also be downloaded and viewed on the
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue website

(See attached file: OurPlan2010-13_AppendixA.pdf)(See attached file:
OurPlan2010-13_AppendixB.pdf)

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OurPlan2010-13_AppendixA.pdf (249 KB)

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OurPlan2010-13_AppendixA.pdf (249 KB)

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OurPlan2010-13_AppendixB.pdf (383 KB)

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Beat 31 surgery - Moira
January 15th 2011, 10:00 to 12:00.
Moira Community Centre, Ashby Road, Moira

Beat 31 surgery - Oakthorpe
February 15th 2011, 18:00 to 20:00.
Oakthorpe Community Centre, Measham Road, Oakthorpe

Beat 31 surgery - Donisthorpe
March 18th 2011, 12:00 to 14:00.
Donisthorpe Community Centre, Ramscliffe Avenue, Donisthorpe

Beat 31 surgery - various
April 17th 2011, 14:00 to 17:30.
various, see below

Beat 31 surgery - Moira
May 16th 2011, 18:00 to 20:00.
Moira Community Centre, Ashby Road, Moira

Beat 31 surgery - Oakthorpe
June 17th 2011, 14:00 to 16:00.
The Gate public house car park, School Street, Oakthorpe

Beat 31 surgery - Donisthorpe
July 14th 2011, 15:00 to 17:00.
Opposite Donisthorpe Miners Welfare Club, Church Street, Donisthorpe
Read more…

Beat 31 surgery - Blackfordby
August 13th 2011, 10:00 to 12:00.
Blackfordby Community Centre, Sandtop Close, Blackfordby

Beat 31 surgery - various locations
September 22nd 2011, 14:00 to 17:30.
various, see below

Beat 31 surgery - Oakthorpe
October 25th 2011, 14:00 to 16:00.
The Gate public house, School Street, Oakthorpe

Beat 31 surgery - Moira
November 11th 2011, 11:00 to 13:00.
Moira Community Centre, Ashby Road, Moira

Beat 31 surgery - Donisthorpe
December 21st 2011, 11:00 to 13:00.
The Halfway House public house, Church Street, Donisthorpe

Full details can be found at
http://www.leics.police.uk/policing/3_north_bcu/10_north_west_leicestershire/...

A grand total of £65,665 was paid to Leicestershire's Councillors for
member allowances and travel expenses during the year 2009/2010.

All basic allowances were increased for the proceeding financial year, of
which is documented below and full reports can be viewed on the
Leicestershire Fire Authority Website
http://www.leicestershire-fire.gov.uk/cfa/

The basic allowance for Members serving on the Authority in 2009/2010 was
£2,874 per annum

The basic allowance for Members serving on the Authority in 2010/2011 rose
to £2,940 per annum

Special responsibility allowances are paid annually in addition to the
basic allowances as follows:

In 2009/2010 this was :
(i) Chairman - £9,514. ( Includes £861 LACC Directors Allowance)
(ii) Vice-Chairman – £ 3,769 ( Includes £861 LACC Directors Allowance)
(iii) Group Leaders (not being Chairman or Vice-Chairman) - £1,666.
(iv) Chairs of Committees - £1,666.

Which rose to the following in 2010/2011 (Current Rates) :
i) Chairman - £9,733 (Includes £881 LACC Directors Allowance)
(ii) Vice-Chairman – £3,856 (Includes £881 LACC Directors Allowance)
(iii) Group Leaders (not being Chairman or Vice-Chairman) - £1,704.
(iv) Chairs of Committees - £1,704.

Links to the official documents on the Leicestershire and Rutland Fire &
Rescue Webste can be found at the following links
2009 / 2010 Financial Year
http://www.leicestershire-fire.gov.uk/documents/Members-Allowances-2009-2010.pdf
2010 / 2011 Financial Year
http://www.leicestershire-fire.gov.uk/documents/Members-Allowances-2010-2011.pdf

A full breakdown of allowances paid to the Leicestershire Combined Fire
Authority Members during 2009/2010 fiscal year can be found at the
following link :
http://www.leicestershire-fire.gov.uk/documents/Members_Allowances_2009-2010.pdf

Read the full article here :

http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/2010/12/31/speed-camera-data-must-be-publishe...

If you would like to be involved with the group or to know more about the
Ashby Woulds Traffic forum simply email them at awtf@hotmail.co.uk

This research was commissioned by the Department for Transport (DfT) to
understand panellists’ opinions on road safety in general and specifically
on speeding, vehicle safety and driver behaviour. The survey was carried
out using the DfT on-line panel, and 427 interviews were completed during
November 2008.

You will find graphs and summary's throughout the report but here is just
some information relating to Speeding and Police enforcement.:

Speed above 30 mph limit at which drivers are stopped
Panellists were asked to estimate the speed at which a driver in a 30 mph
zone would have to be going before they would be stopped by the police or
caught on camera (see Figure 3.1).
The majority of panellists estimated a speed between 30 and 35 mph, and
more than two-fifths estimated speeds lower than the actual cut-off of 35
miles per hour.
A fifth of panellists thought a speed higher than 35 mph was the actual
cut-off level, with most of these estimating 40 mph as the real cut-off.
A further one in ten panellists did not feel in a position to hazard an
estimate and they tended to be panellists who were non-drivers. The mean
estimated speed at which a driver would be stopped, excluding outliers
above 50 mph, was 34.7 mph (or 35 mph when rounded).
Younger respondents, aged 18–24, had expectations of higher speeds at which
drivers would be stopped. They estimated a mean speed of 35.6 mph (or 36
mph when rounded), whereas panellists who were older than 35 years
estimated a mean speed of 34.4 mph (or 34 mph when rounded).

The full report can be downloaded using the following link
http://www.pacts.org.uk/docs/pdf-bank/rswp10.pdf

Excerpt from The Report : EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This study explores the relationship between speed and the risk of fatal
injury for three different types of traffic accident:
pedestrians struck by the front of cars;
car drivers following frontal impacts; and
car drivers following side impacts.

The risk of fatality with impact speed (for pedestrians) and change of
velocity (for seat-belted car drivers) has been calculated using a logistic
regression method, and three current sources of accident data in the UK:
the On the Spot (OTS) project;
police fatal files; and
the Co-operative Crash Injury Study (CCIS).

This same method of logistic regression has been applied to two other
important sources of pedestrian accident data: data collected by Ashton and
Mackay in Birmingham in the 1970s, and data from the German In-Depth
Accident Study (GIDAS) used by Rose´n and Sander in their 2009 paper. Using
the same method on these different datasets means that the results can be
directly compared. The risk of fatality was then plotted in the form of
risk curves for each dataset.

Comparison of the pedestrian risk curves from the different datasets shows
that the risk of pedestrian fatality is generally higher for the dataset
from the 1970s, indicating that the probability of pedestrians being killed
when hit by the front of a car has reduced over the last 30 years. In all
of the pedestrian datasets, the risk of fatality increases slowly until
impact speeds of around 30 mph. Above this speed, risk increases rapidly –
the increase is between 3.5 and 5.5 times from 30 mph to 40 mph. Although
the risk of pedestrians being killed at 30mph is relatively low,
approximately half of pedestrian fatalities occur at this impact speed or
below.

Comparing the risk of fatality for a seat-belted driver in a frontal impact
with a side impact shows that the risk of fatality is much higher in a side
impact than in a frontal impact with the same change of velocity.

Data were collected by teams from the Birmingham Automotive Safety Centre
of the University of Birmingham; the Vehicle Safety Research Centre (VSRC)
at Loughborough University; TRL and the Vehicle and Operator Services
Agency of the Department for Transport.

Read and download the full report here :
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/research/rsrr/theme5/researchreport16/pd...

If your like to know more about the Ashby Woulds Traffic Forum please email
to awtf@hotmail.co.uk