Fire and Rescue Services: Mental Health Services
(asked on 3rd March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taking to improve the quality of mental health support provision for firefighters.
This question was answered on 6th April 2020
It is the responsibility of each fire and rescue authority in England to ensure that they have appropriate workforce support and wellbeing provisions in place and the National Fire Chiefs’ Council’s Health and Wellbeing Board is driving positive change across the sector.
In support of this the Government has provided £7m since 2014, to fund emergency services workers’ mental health support through Mind’s Blue Light Programme.