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New post-Grenfell regulations designed to ensure disabled people can safely evacuate from high-rise residential buildings will instead continue to put their lives in grave danger, the government has been told. Inclusion London said it was “deeply concerned” that lives would be […]
The government has confirmed that it will push ahead with “watered down” proposals for the emergency evacuation of disabled people who live in high-rise residential buildings, in response to the Grenfell fire inquiry. In its “full response” to the Grenfell Tower […]
The government has caused outrage after announcing that it would not implement measures – recommended by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry – that would have ensured disabled people could safely evacuate high-rise blocks of flats in emergencies. The inquiry had recommended that […]