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Issue 121, 13 January 2021

Fire Safety Digest


Post-Grenfell guidance and actions from the Built Environment professions 
In light of recent developments and the Prime Minister’s announcement of a national lockdown, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has decided to temporarily suspend oral hearings.  The Inquiry hopes to start remote hearings as early as possible in February. [Read More]
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) is launching a Certificate in Fire Safety for Construction, due to begin on 17 February 2021. The course provides an overview of fire safety and the knowledge to enable the learner to manage fire safety in buildings. [Read More]
New House of Commons Library Research paper - Leasehold high-rise flats: who pays for fire safety work?.  This paper considers the debate about who is responsible for paying for fire safety works on blocks of flats in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. It covers progress in implementing the Government decision to fund remediation work for affected blocks with ACM cladding in the social and private sectors. [Read More]
The UK government has demanded that executives who supplied combustible cladding to Grenfell Tower “step up to the plate” after their refusal to give evidence to the public inquiry into the disaster provoked anger among the bereaved and survivors. [Read More]
The government proposed watering down key recommendations of the Grenfell Inquiry, including those relating to the evacuation of disabled people, after an industry lobbying group described them as costly and impractical, newly released documents reveal. [Read More]
We have a juggernaut of changes coming towards us,’ says Jane Duncan, chair of the RIBA expert advisory group on fire safety, summing up the policies emerging from the government’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire. The juggernaut must be steered steadily along its route to bring about the significant shift in safety practice and construction industry culture envisaged by Judith Hackitt’s report, Building a Safer Future. [Read More]
The Welsh government has published proposals for reform the fire safety of multi-occupied residential buildings.  Proposals in the Safer Buildings in Wales white paper cover all multi-occupied residential buildings, from a house converted into two flats, to a high-rise apartment block. [Read More]






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