More than four in five UK fire and rescue services have changed emergency response arrangements because of concerns about access to sufficient firefighting water, new NFCC evidence has found.

The interoperability framework known as the Joint Doctrine is up for review and the national JESIP team is seeking evidence and insight from across the emergency services to ensure it remains effective, relevant, and aligned with the evolving demands of multi-agency response.

North West Ambulance Service has marked its 20th anniversary by launching a new five-year strategy focused on improving patient care, addressing health inequalities and strengthening the public’s role in shaping services.

London Fire Brigade has published a new Sustainable Development Strategy, setting out how it plans to respond to climate risks, cut emissions and deliver wider social and economic benefits across the capital.

What happens after a major incident can shape how ambulance staff carry that experience for years to come. Lanna Deamer speaks to Sasha Johnston about a new toolkit, now adopted through AACE, that aims to make support more consistent and embedded in practice.

Alison Dewhirst of CIPFA examines why strong financial leadership is critical to policing success, arguing that effective governance, strategic oversight and sustainable funding models are essential as forces confront rising demand, constrained budgets and ongoing reform across the UK policing landscape over the coming years and beyond current operational pressures.

Merseyside Police is introducing a significant force restructure designed to modernise policing, strengthen local accountability and improve the service delivered to communities across the region.

Policing has never had more data at its fingertips. From incident logs to intelligence reports, the volume of information generated every day is vast. But as Catherine Levin discovered in the latest episode of For Every Response, the real challenge is making sense of all of it. To explore that challenge, she spoke to Kate Fisher-Stevens, who is helping shape how policing uses data at a national level.

The first reports from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services’ latest fire and rescue service inspection programme will be published in March 2026, as a new two-year cycle gets under way.

Critical Care Paramedics (CCPs) from South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) have contributed to two major publications aimed at strengthening the evidence base and guiding best practice in pre-hospital care.