Consultations

Consultations and responses

2021

• Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) Consultation  (July 19th)
• NFCC Workforce Good Practice Framework and Maturity Models (CLOSING DATE May 21st)
• Welsh Government Safer Buildings in Wales Consultation - NFCC Response (April13th)
• MHCLG National Planning Policy Framework and National Model Design Code: Consultation proposals - NFCC Response (March 26th)
• Collecting Equality & Diversity data ( CLOSING DATE May 14th)
• Data capture survey: People Prgramme (CLOSING DATE April 10th)
• Fire Protection Fire Standard (CLOSiNG DATE April 9th)
• Prevention Fire Standard (CLOSING DATE April 9th)
• NFCC Mentoring Agreement  (CLOSING DATE February 22nd)
• NFCC Considerations for a coaching and mentoring scheme (CLOSING DATE February 22nd)
• MHCLG: Supporting housing delivery and public service infrastructure: NFCC response  (February 1st)
• RICS Draft Guidance Note - Valuation of properties in multi-storey, multi-occupancy residential buildings with cladding, 1st edition - NFCC Response (January 25)
• MHCLG Architects Act Consultation NFCC Response (January 22)
• MHCLG Domestic Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Consultation – Proposals to Extend Regulations (January 11th)
• NFCC: Apprenticeship Toolkit consultation (CLOSING DATE: January 12th)

2020

• MHCLG Raising accessibility standards for new homes - NFCC Response (December 1st) 
• Equality of access to services and employment for black people (CLOSING DATE: January 2nd)
• NFCC: Equality of Access to Services and Employment for Neurodiversity (November 30th) 
• Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Consultation The Future of the Planning System in England - NFCC Response (October 29th)
• Fire Standards Board: Community Risk Management Planning Fire Standard (CLOSING DATE: December 7th)
• MHCLG Planning for the Future Consultation - NFCC Response (October 29th)
• Draft Scottish Advice Note: Determining the fire risk posed by external wall systems in existing multi-storey residential buildings - NFCC Response (October 24th)
• Fire Investigation Competency Framework - Second edition (informal consultation): (CLOSING DATE: November 30th)
• Fire and Rescue Authorities becoming statutory consultees in the development management process - NFCC Response (October 21st) 
• NFCC EDI Project - Equality of Access to services and employment for the LGBT communities: (Closing date: November 16th)
• NFCC Leadership project – Coaching and Mentoring Ethical Code: (Closing date: November 16th)
• NFCC Leadership project – Coaching and Mentoring Agreement: (Closing date: November 16th)
• Fire Standards Board: Code of Ethics Fire Standard consultation: (Closing date:November 2nd)
• Home Office Fire Safety Order - NFCC Response (October 12th) 
• Core Code of Ethics : NFCC and LGA consultation (closing date: November 2nd)
• Pre White Paper: Welsh Government Building Safety Position Statement (September 30th)
• NFCC Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Impact Assessment (EqIA) Consultation (closing date August 31st)
• Review of operational firefighter apprenticeship standard (CLOSED: August 24th) 
• Call for Evidence: Progress in remediating dangerous cladding: Public Accounts Committee  (July 2nd)
• BS 8210 Facilities maintenance management: Code of practice - Letter (June 26h)
• BS 8210 Facilities maintenance management: Code of practice - NFCC response (June 26th)
• Interpretation of the apprenticeship funding rules for On-call Firefighters CLOSED (June 12th)
• Review of fire investigation code of practice (June 8th)
• Review of the ban on the use of combustible materials in and on the external walls of buildings: MHCLG (May 22nd)
• Call for Evidence: Cladding: progress on remediation: HCLG Select Committee  (May 18th)
• Guide to the Design of Balconies and Terraces Draft for Public Consultation (March 3rd)
• Fire Safety: Risk Prioritisation in Existing Buildings – A Call for Evidence  (February 26th)
• The Future Homes Standard: 2019 Consultation on changes to Part L (conservation of fuel and power) and Part F (ventilation) of the Building Regulations for new dwellings (February 7th)
• Inclusion strategy consultation (CLOSED January 10th) 
• Succession planning toolkit consultation (CLOSED January 10th) 

2019

• Drafts for Public Consultation for PD 7974-5 Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings. Part 5: Fire and rescue service intervention (Subsystem 5)  December 27th)
• Safety Rules for the construction and installation of lifts – Particular applications for passengers and goods passenger lifts – Part 76: Evacuation of persons with disabilities using lifts Draft for Public Consultation  (December 18th)
• Approved Document B: Sprinklers and other fire safety measures in high-rise blocks of flats (November 28th)
• Raising the Bar (Interim Report)- Improving competence, building a safer future: The Competence Steering Group (October 31st) 
• Electric vehicle charging in residential and non-residential buildings (October 8th)
• Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours (KSBs): To support the degree level Fire Safety Engineer Apprenticeship Standard: (October 3rd)
• Informal consultation on the review of fire investigation code of practice (September 30th)
• Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 Call for Evidence:Home Office (August 1st)
• Building a safer future: proposals for reform of the building safety regulatory system: MHCLG  (August 1st)
• Code of Practice for the design, installation, commissioning & maintenance of evacuation systems for use by FRS in buildings containing flats of maisonettes  (July 21st) 
• Technical review of Building Bulletin 100: Design for fire safety in schools (May 31st)
• NFCC Apprenticeship strategy (April 26th)
• NFCC Leadership Core Learning Pathway (February 25th - April 5th)
• On-call working arrangements (March 18th)
• On-call firefighters consultation (March 18th)
• Approved Document B: Consultation response (March1st)
• Provisional 2019-20 Local Government Finance Settlement Consultation (January 2019)

2018

• Fire safety: clarification of statutory guidance (Approved Document B) (October 2018)
• Banning the use of combustible materials in the external walls of high-rise residential buildings: Welsh Government  (September 2018) 
• Building Standards Compliance and Fire Safety: Making Scotland's buildings safer for people  (September 2018)
• Banning the use of combustible materials in the external walls of high-rise buildings (August 2018)
• Amendments to statutory guidance on assessments in lieu of test in Approved Document B (Fire Safety): May 2018
• Electrical Safety in the Private Rented Sector: April 2018
• Proposed Social Housing (Automatic Fire Suppression Systems) (Scotland) Bill: April 2018
• Revised draft of Forestry Commission Ops Note 40 (April 2018)
• HMICFRS Inspection Programme and Framework Consultation: (March 2018)
• DEFRA: Proposals to tackle crime and poor performance in the waste sector and introduce a new fixed penalty for the waste duty of care (March 2018)
• National Framework for the Fire and Rescue Service in England (February 2018)