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PARTNERING UP

IGEM Marketing Assistant Jodie Shepherd reports on the Future – Independent Review of Building
moves the institution is making to support the social housing Regulations and Fire Safety, was
sector in the face of a shifting regulatory landscape published in 2018 and concluded that
the entire system needed major reform.
The report also found that key issues
n 14 June 2017, a fire broke out and managing high-rise homes. underpinning the system failure
at Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey Following the tragedy, the included ignorance, indifference, lack
block of flats in the Royal government asked Dame Judith Hackitt of clarity on roles and responsibilities
Borough of Kensington and to carry out an independent review of and inadequate regulatory oversight
O Chelsea, West London. The fire building regulations and fire safety to and enforcement tools.
claimed 72 lives and exposed serious understand the causes of the fire. According to Dame Hackitt, these
failings across the system of building The review, titled Building a Safer issues helped to create a cultural

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