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Peer review Brokering Service

The South East Fire Improvement Partnership is pleased to announce the launch of a new service for Fire and Rescue Authorities. The Peer Review Brokering Service will provide easy access to accredited peer reviewers to critically assess an authority’s approach to a topic.

The concept of peer review is simple: a peer is a critical friend, someone that understands the issues and challenges. Working with peers helps an authority to assess itself objectively and pinpoint its strengths and weaknesses, without creating the interrogative environment of an external inspection.

Peer review is seen by the Audit Commission as one way of reducing the burden of inspection on local authorities. The recent local government White Paper and the subsequent bill discusses in some detail the use of peer review as a way of allowing local government to deal with its own performance.

We are currently offering subsidies for peer reviews. To find out more, please contact us. More detail is also contained in SEFIP Newsletter 6 (pdf, 322kb).