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Definition of 'six months' and '12 months' sick pay

This report recommends that the Brigade changes its definition of ‘six months’ when calculating six months full sick pay from 180 days to 184 days, and changes its definition of ‘six months’ when calculating six months half sick pay from 180 days to 181 days (182 days in a leap year). It also recommends that the Brigade changes its definition of ‘12 months’ when calculating 12 months full sick pay (for ‘due to service’ cases) from 360 days to 365 days (366 days in a leap year).

Agreed Commissioner decision

Appointment of the LFB Chair of the Independent External Review of Culture

Following the approval of LFC-0526, entitled “Reviewing our Culture”, the process outlined in the paper has been followed. A Search Committee was established and has ended its deliberations, making the recommendation to the London Fire Commissioner that Nazir Afzal OBE is appointed as the LFB Chair of the Independent External Review of Culture.

Agreed Commissioner decision

Routine Periodic Medicals - Asbestos Medicals

This report proposes an approach to the catch up on Routine Periodic Medicals completed via questionnaire since April 2020.

Agreed Commissioner decision

Internal Audit - Review of 2020/21

This report provides the London Fire Commissioner, responsible for the London Fire Brigade (LFB), with the Head of Internal Audit's annual opinion on the effectiveness of the LFB's internal framework and details of progress on work undertaken during the year 2020/21.

Agreed Commissioner decision

Privacy for All Works – London Fire Brigade Estate

This paper seeks approval for extending the implementation of gender neutral design across the London Fire Brigade (LFB) estate, with projects extending over the current financial year and the next five financial years, in order to create gender neutral resting rooms for firefighters in line with the current watch strength at each LFB station.

Agreed Commissioner decision

Personal Injury Settlement

The London Fire Commissioner (LFC) previously delegated authority to General Counsel to settle a Personal Injury claim (LFC258x-D), that settlement exceeding the general delegated authority provided by the LFC Scheme of Delegation. This report recommends increasing the amount provided for settlement in the previous LFC decision in response to developments in this case. Details are set out in a confidential Part 2 form.

Agreed Commissioner decision

Home Office Grant Fund Expenditure Plan

In September of 2020 LFB received two grants from the Home Office totalling £5.5 million. These grants are to be utilised to bolster LFB Protection activities and to assist in carrying out the Building Risk Review (BRR). A third grant of £3.9 million was received from the Home Office in April 2021. This report sets out proposed plan to allocate a spend against the grants.

Agreed Commissioner decision

Annual Governance Statement 2020-21

Regulations 3 and 6 (1) of the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 require the London Fire Commissioner (LFC) to have sound systems of internal control and to demonstrate this by publishing an Annual Governance Statement (AGS). The AGS for 2020/21 is attached as Appendix 1 to this report.

Agreed Commissioner decision

Development of the Community Risk Management Plan 2022

This report seeks funding for the development of a Target Operating Model (TOM) which will describe what the organisation will look like and the services it provides, together with implementation plans.

Agreed Commissioner decision

Information Requests (Data Protection, Freedom of Information) 2020-21

This report provides an update on the number of information requests received by the Brigade under data protection and freedom of information law in 2020/21.

Agreed Commissioner decision

Covid-19 Lessons Learnt - Second Wave

This report provides an account of the lessons learnt throughout the organisation from the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Agreed Commissioner decision

Monitoring of Health and Safety Performance 2020/21 Annual Report

This is the Health and Safety update and monitoring report for the year 2020/21.

Agreed Commissioner decision