Kent Fire and Rescue Service
Audited annual statement of accounts 2020-21

The Authority's Responsibilities

The Authority is required to:

• make arrangements for the proper administration of its financial affairs and to secure that one of its officers has the responsibility for the administration of those affairs.  In this Authority, that officer is the Director, Finance and Corporate Services;
• manage its affairs to secure economic, efficient and effective use of resources and safeguard its assets;
• approve the Statement of Accounts.

The Director, Finance and Corporate Services’ Responsibilities

The Director, Finance and Corporate Services, is responsible for the preparation of the Authority's Statement of Accounts in accordance with proper practices as set out in the CIPFA Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting in the United Kingdom (the Code).   
 
In preparing this Statement of Accounts, the Director, Finance and Corporate Services, has:

• selected suitable accounting policies and then applied them consistently;
• made judgements and estimates that were reasonable and prudent;
• complied with the local authority Code.

The Director, Finance and Corporate Services, has also:

• kept proper accounting records which were up to date; 
• taken reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In my view, the accounts which follow give a true and fair view of the financial position of the Kent and Medway Towns Fire Authority at the accounting date and its income and expenditure for the year ended 31 March 2021.