Tayside Fire & Rescue Board Meetings

On Friday I attended meetings of the Joint Fora on Service Support and Service Delivery of Tayside Fire and Rescue Board. This was a very interesting meeting which looked at the future work of the Fire and Rescue Service. We discussed the plans for the forthcoming consultation on Towards a Safer Tayside. There was a very interesting discussion on how the Fire and Rescue Service would benefit from better information sharing amongst the public sector. I will be asking what the City Council can do to make information available to the Fire and Rescue Service. It is important that we try to do all we can to allow firefighters to fight fires effectively, to prevent fires where possible, and that where possible sharing information should take place. The next full meeting of the Fire and Rescue Board will respond to the current consultation on the Scottish Government's proposal of a single fire service for Scotland.