Management process
with its potential for remote monitoring and connection, will also be useful in this area. But, while lying at the heart of the practical
response to this challenge and meeting the demands of outcomes and accountability, asset control and surveillance only forms part of the response. The housing sector needs to change more than its protocols and methodologies. Relationships and power balances are also shifting in light of Grenfell. The social housing green paper echoes the outcomes based theme in its intention to provide residents with the ‘tools they need to hold their landlords to account’, including potentially the power to recommend or decry them in some (currently unspecified) form of public reporting.
Battle for change
Unsurprisingly, the survivors and bereaved of Grenfell are at the front of the battle for change5
.
They too want a new culture to prevail in the management of housing, and demand changes to building regulations and fire safety. Bringing about change on that scale is always going to be hard, but bringing it about in a country that has been dominated by single issue politics since 2016 – and having had its the second general election in three years at the time of writing – is even harder. Nobody, least of all anyone involved in housing provision, can allow politicking and point scoring to overshadow what is
truly important. People must be protected from fire and the system must change – in light of the Grenfell inquiry, the Hackitt review and all other facts arising. The sector must take new, innovative approaches to generate the safety outcomes now being demanded. Everyone involved in housing provision must act in response to Grenfell. And it must never, ever be allowed to happen again
Tracie Williams is managing director of Evident Software. For more information, view page 3
References
1. Phase 1 report, Grenfell Tower Inquiry, https://
www.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/phase-1- report
2. A new deal for social housing, HM Government [HMG], https://assets.
publishing.service.gov.uk/government/ uploads/system/uploads/attachment_ data/file/733605/A_new_deal_for_social_ housing_web_accessible.pdf
3. Building a Safer Future – Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety: Final Report, HMG,
https://assets.publishing.
service.gov.uk/government/uploads/ system/uploads/attachment_data/ file/707785/Building_a_Safer_Future_-_ web.pdf
4. Evident Software, www.evidentsoftware.
co.uk
5. Grenfell United,
www.grenfellunited.org.uk
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