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A highly critical review has found Fire and Emergency has failed to fix its poor workplace culture and recommends setting up an independent complaints body.
The Internal affairs Minster has said work will progress on this but in the interim an independent panel will soon be put in place.
The review by Belinda Clark found FENZ hasn't changed enough since the damning 2019 Judge Coral Shaw report which found harassment and bullying was endemic throughout the organisation.
Kathryn speaks with a volunteer firefighter, Jane (not her real name), who made a complaint of sexual harassment against a senior officer two and half years ago - and has been stood down from her brigade since then, while the respondent has remained in his role