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Summary

The latest Fire and Rescue Operational Statistics for England for 2010-11 were released under the auspices of the UK Statistics Authority on Wednesday 24 August 2011.

The Department for Communities and Local Government published today the Fire and Rescue Service Operational Statistics bulletin for the period 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011.

The key points from the release are:

Numbers of staff

• At 31 March 2011, there were 29,100 wholetime firefighter full-time equivalents (down 2 per cent on 2010), and 12,100 retained firefighter units of 24 hour cover (up 2 per cent on 2010)
• There has been a gradual increase in the representation of women and minority ethnic staff in recent years. At 31 March 2011, 4.1 per cent of firefighters were women compared with 2.8 per cent in 2006. Minority ethnic staff accounted for 3.7 per cent of all staff (include both uniformed and support staff) compared with 3.0 per cent in 2006.

Health and Safety

• There were 3,500 reported injuries to fire fighters in 2010-11. This was 48 per cent lower than in 2000-01.

Community fire safety

• 825,000 Home Fire Safety Checks were carried out by Fire and Rescue Services and their partners in 2010-11. This was only slightly lower than the record number of 840,000 carried out in 2009-10.

Fire safety audits of buildings

• Fire and Rescue Services carried out 84,600 audits of buildings in 2010-11, 7 per cent more than in 2009-10. Almost 90 per cent of follow-up actions were informal notifications.

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