Martin Ford 27 April 2023

Dudley in health and safety breach

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Dudley MBC has been found to have breached health and safety rules by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH).

It referred itself to the regulator after uncovering issues with data stretching back a decade.

The regulator said the council could not provide evidence it carried out out more than 8,000 fire safety actions, as well as around 500 asbestos inspections, 4,000 electrical inspections and 300 gas inspections.

Dudley’s director of housing and communities, Kathryn Jones, said: ‘We take residents’ safety extremely seriously so once we became aware of the historical data quality issue we referred ourselves to the regulator and started to implement an action plan to validate the information we hold.’

RSH’s director of consumer regulation, Kate Dodsworth, said Dudley had ‘failed to meet health and safety requirements’ and the regulator was ‘monitoring it closely as it takes urgent action to put things right’.

This article was originally published by The MJ (£).

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