Internal grievances to fire authority are down – report
Details of grievance procedures against the West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority (WMFS) in the early part of the year show they have halved from the corresponding reporting period.
A report of the authority's scrutiny committee released this week shows nine new grievances were lodged by employees between January 1 and April 30 this year, a fall of nine from the previous figures between July and December 2023.
It comes after fire service bosses said they were liaising with police into the circumstances surrounding the death of a retired employee discovered at the Old Park Lane station in Oldbury in the early hours of Monday.
He was named as Ian Revell who had served for 26 years – at the time of his death he was working as a health and safety officer.
His death sparked headlines in a national newspaper which called the service "scandal hit" – after the death of previous chief Wayne Brown who was found at his home in January.
