Fire and rescue services must evolve working models, connect the workforce seamlessly, effectively utilise skills and adopt a strategic mindset.
Sector
Fire and rescue
With fundamental shifts in the community safety sector, UK fire services are developing innovative working models to keep up with changing needs and ongoing disruption. Community safety and fire intervention is forcing fire and rescue services to reinvent their workforce supply to fully realise the benefits of a connected ecosystem and improve operational efficiency.
Changes in legislation, the national skills agenda and a sharp increase in demand to support wider emergency services have had a ripple effect for employers, who are responsible for fire safety and security, locally and nationally.
Skills for Justice takes a collaborative approach to help you improve your skills programmes, retain and recruit competent staff, overcome knowledge gaps and set a clear roadmap for the future fire service workforce.
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Discover how Skills for Justice is helping to enhance the workforce within fire and rescue services
Workforce planning
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Workforce planning
We help organisations meet and manage current and future service needs.
Qualifications and apprenticeship support
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Qualifications and apprenticeship support
Experts in the design and delivery of justice sector apprenticeships.
Research and evaluation
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Research and evaluation
With a unique blend of expertise, we deliver world-class research and evaluation solutions across the public sector.
Learning solutions
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Learning solutions
Supporting sustainable training and quality of learning opportunities.
Our clients
Our unrivalled industry knowledge and experience has seen us work with many of the sector’s most influential and highly respected organisations. We are trusted to deliver high quality and impactful programmes and practices that ultimately improve the delivery of services on the front line.
Inspire Justice Awards
The Inspire Justice Awards celebrate the essential contribution of the wider justice workforce. These unsung heroes deserve to have their stories and contributions publicly recognised. Each year we celebrate individuals and teams working across the sector.
Find out more about these awards and how you can get involved.
What our clients say
“Ambit helped us think about how to align core G4S values with the main areas of organisational life, so we are able to offer excellent support and opportunities to those we care for and get the best from our people through ongoing development and recognition of their achievements.”
What our clients say
“The Skills for Justice team were invaluable to us to deliver this result. This required exceptional support and project management from the team to bring several organisations together working to the strictest of deadlines. Staff feel more valued and have greater transferable skills. We are confident that they will progress their careers in the sector.”
What our clients say
“We are delighted with the work that we have done with Skills for Justice to develop our employee engagement survey. There are some changes that we will make but we will definitely be using Skills for Justice going forward as we are always wanting to continually improve our approach.”
What our clients say
“Our project was about trying to bring more rigour in. Checking what skills everybody needs, and making sure we’ve supported them in getting those skills. The ambition in working with Skills for Justice was accreditation – to design a bespoke customised certificate of achievement in inspectorate skills.”
What our clients say
“The Skills for Justice consultancy experts helped us, but also allowed us to speak when we needed to change things. They completely understood the needs of the sector, but most importantly, they understood how to accommodate the learning requirements within the really restrictive environments that we work in.”
Case studies
Employee engagement surveys: Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service
A Q&A with Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service on their experience of using Ambit surveys.
