A strategic needs assessment for Nottinghamshire

摘要

In a recent article the authors explored some of the new circumstances, organisational landscape and changing relationships that the fire and rescue services in the UK are currently confronting. They argued that while there are undoubtedly major challenges from the current era of austerity there are also some opportunities and consequential obligations on the service to respond proactively, positively, creatively and imaginatively to the challenges of austerity. One way Nottinghamshire FRS have responded to this challenge has been to work more closely with its two local universities not only in their traditional areas of teaching and research, but in a unique new initiative which integrates and embeds the three organisations' research and strategic analytical capacity into the guidance and advice that the fire and rescue service offers to the fire authority on some of its most crucial strategic decisions.