Rachael Loftus

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1 July 2025 - Building Safety Regulator - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament 10:00 - Room 1, Palace of Westminster

🚨 Inquiry into the Building Safety Regulator

👉 Giles Grover and Liam Spender will be giving oral evidence to the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee today.

🕙 The session starts at 10 am.

More info and link 👇
committees.parliament.uk/event/24707/...

8 years on.
Still far from justice.
Still far from peace.

Today, we will stand shoulder to shoulder with the Grenfell bereaved, survivors and community.

We will remember the 72 people who died.
We will honour their memory.
We will demand justice 💚

Join us on the silent walk.

Britain’s new-build nightmare How the dream of home ownership ran into the reality of an under-regulated market.

✍️ "The post-Grenfell building safety crisis uncovered fire safety flaws in high-rise blocks, landed leaseholders with life-ruining bills to fix them and stalled flat sales. Is the new-build betrayal Britain’s next housing time bomb?"

www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

As part of our analysis, we ranked constituencies in England according to a range of measures across the life-course.

You can use our interactive map to see how constituencies rank in terms of access to opportunity for disadvantaged young people ⤵️

www.suttontrust.com/opportunity-...

This research provides an unprecedented insight into the geography of opportunity and social mobility in England.

Read the full report to get a complete picture of how access to opportunity varies across different areas of the country ⬇️

www.suttontrust.com/our-research...

All 20 constituencies with the lowest proportion of FSM pupils moving are in the North East, North West, and Yorkshire and the Humber.

The research also looked closely at geographical mobility.

Across all regions, migration from one region to another is linked to higher earnings on average.

However, young people eligible for free school meals only benefited from this trend in London and the East of England.

But there are big differences in outcomes for the poorest young people within the same region too, depending on the specific area they're from.

We found drastic inequalities of opportunity across the South East of England, which is typically thought of as a prosperous region.

📊 East Ham is ranked as the top constituency for opportunity, with Newcastle Upon Tyne Central and West lowest.

They have very similar levels of free school meal eligibility (37% and 35% respectively) but the difference in prospects for social mobility between the two is stark.

Only 8 of the top 50 constituencies providing the best opportunities for young people are outside the capital.

The North East and North West are overrepresented among the lowest ranked areas, but the South East has the biggest gaps between areas.

🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found.

Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️

A city #United 2 end #VAWG

Walk & Talk with students @LeedsTrinity @UniversityLeeds

Listening & responding as everyday harassment, inappropriate behaviour & micro aggressions towards women & girls
📣It’sNotBanter
📣It’sNotHarmless
📣It’sNotOk

If u do Nothing, nothing changes, but Change is Possible!

A high-rise fire killed Catherine. The cladding firm kept on selling A London inferno 16 years ago killed Catherine Hickman and five others. Now a Sunday Times investigation raises serious questions about materials used on the flats

The Grenfell inquiry told us how three manufacturers lied.

Today's revelations in @thetimes.com spell out how misleading marketing was not limited to three bad actors.

The cladding and building safety crisis is becoming Britain’s biggest corporate scandal.

www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Once again it is journalists who are getting to the heart of just how big the #BuildingSafetyScandal is.

How product manufacturers distance themselves from the consequences of their dangerous products.

And just how easy it is from them to get away with it.

#EndOurCladdingScandal

'It's been a living hell': The people spending years struggling to sell their homes Three homeowners reveal the struggles of selling their properties from high service charges to cladding concerns

🗨️ "I’ve tried to sell my flat three times"

"As well as ongoing cladding remediation works, Lucy has an £8,800 annual service charge."

❗ @alexjjnorris.bsky.com see the problem?

inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Exciting news! We are doing some promotion filming tomorrow for #NightSafeLeeds in the capital of #Yorkshire that is Leeds
#BeSafeFeelSafe✊🏽

Cladding scandal: 'Too many people have prioritised profit over human beings' In the years since Grenfell, thousands of buildings have been found to violate safety regulations. Flat owners suddenly found themselves hit with bills for large scale remedial work and soaring buildi...

🗨️“The cladding scandal has fundamentally and irreversibly changed my view of the fairness of living in this country and has highlighted the ease with which so many people who have been involved have been able to prioritise profit over human beings’’

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/claddin...

Volunteers from the Shared Owners' Network have been working on:

👉 Buybacks
👉 Valuations
👉 Subletting
👉 Resales
👉 Lease extensions
👉 Building safety

🖋️ Are you a shared owner? Don't miss the next email update. Join now ➡️ tinyurl.com/SharedOwnersNetwork

Cladding scandal: 'Innocent people like me face the risks and costs' One day in January 2020, NHS worker Rachael Loftus was surprised to find a man in a high visibility jacket standing outside her flat complex in Leeds.

🗣️ “Part of the problem seems to be that the deregulation of the building industry has meant that those bad actors who cut corners have been getting away with it for far too long and it’s just become how they operate.

@alexjjnorris.bsky.social what's the plan?
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/claddin...

The Institute of Fire Engineers has issued a statement & FAQ on the Adam Kiziak/Tri Fire EWS1 scandal.

❗It confirms complaints and an investigation started in *2021*

The fallout continues for thousands of leaseholders & residents.

⏳ Still waiting for MHCLG to act.

www.ife.org.uk/Home/Useful-...

Flat owner hit with £65,000 fire safety bill as block too short for funding Funding to protect flats from fire does not apply to buildings under 11m (36ft) or five storeys high.

The building safety scandal was caused by decades of systemic negligence, incompetence & deception, by successive governments & industry.

Can @alexjjnorris.bsky.social explain why ordinary people have been left to face bankruptcy? 👇

#BuildingSafetyCrisis
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gap between prices of UK flats and houses ‘widest in 30 years’ Cladding concerns and rising service charges hit demand for apartments

❌ Result of MHCLG
not prioritising safety

"Gap between the prices of houses and flats in the UK has widened to a 30-year high"

"The average price of a house rose beyond 1.5 times the price of a flat for the first time in 2021, in the wake of the UK’s cladding crisis"

www.ft.com/content/377c...

Join the Shared Owners' Network - End Our Cladding Scandal The Shared Owners’ Network was created at the end of 2023 by shared owners who met while campaigning for building safety. Since then, the network has grown and members have been busy helping fellow sh...

📢 Are you a shared owner?

Are you dealing with building safety remediation or other issues?

✅ Join the Shared Owners Network to get regular updates 👇

#SharedOwnership
#UKhousing

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Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release - January 2025 The 87th monthly data release regarding building safety remediation.

For what it's worth, the latest building safety stats are out.

❌ The data is still full of holes and still painting half a picture (at best).

❌ MHCLG still "monitoring" with no meaningful oversight.

❌ Leaseholders & residents still waiting for the Govt to get a grip.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

YouTube video by End Our Cladding Scandal EOCS evidence to the Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on Cladding (03/02/25)

📺 We gave oral evidence to the Public Accounts Committee last week.

▶️ Catch up on our YouTube channel 👇

youtu.be/73ujWa6d53g

#BuildingSafetyCrisis #UKHousing

3 February 2025 - The Remediation of Dangerous Cladding - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament 15:00 - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

📅 Today we will be joining a panel to give evidence to the Public Accounts Committee Inquiry into Dangerous Cladding.

The Committee will then question senior officials from MHCLG & Homes England.

📺 You can watch online from 3.30pm 👇
committees.parliament.uk/event/22636/...

'While it might be tempting to blame officials and accounting rules, the root causes of these problems are political. Pressures on the NHS increase each year [...] meaning government investment needs to increase just to stand still.' Hugh Alderwick, Director of Policy at the Health Foundation

Responding to the Public Accounts Committee report on NHS financial sustainability published today, Hugh Alderwick says the short-termism and dysfunction in financial planning identified will come as no surprise to those working in the health system.

Our full response ⬇️
https://buff.ly/4aCjGCW

Me too. I really think we need a national debate on what we all think is important - then task policy makers etc to figure out how to fund it.

A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

“It feels like I’m being humiliated at the time I’m most vulnerable.”

Heartbreaking story of how properly funded, really good, integrated care remains a challenge.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...