ECL partnerships with fire service ensures safety of the sensory impaired.
ECL, an Essex-based sensory support service has developed a formidable partnership with Essex County Fire and Rescue Service to ensure its services are accessible to everyone with sight and/or hearing loss.

ECL’s Sensory Service, which supports people with sensory impairments to live independently, leads the Sensory Action Alliance, a network of organisations across Essex that work together to improve the lives of people with sensory loss.

A key member of the Sensory Action Alliance since 2020, Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is sharing how its partnership with ECL has benefitted the organisation and the community it serves with the release of a film to encourage others to join.

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Home Secretary welcomed to College by Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex
Roger Hirst, Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex, welcomed the Home Secretary, the Right Honourable James Cleverly MP, to the Essex Police College in Chelmsford.

The visit was to mark the one-year anniversary of the national Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce.

The Home Secretary was in Essex as force figures showed the Essex Police Online Investigation Team (POLIT) made more than 600 arrests or suspect interviews for sexual offences and online child abuse and secured 424 charges – the most of any force anywhere in the UK.

Roger Hirst said: “Once again the excellent work of Essex Police and all our partners in tackling these dreadful crimes is recognised at the highest levels of Government. The very latest year-on-year figures to the end of March show sexual offences in Essex are down by 11.3%."

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