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🚨This report finds only 1/3 of all high-rise buildings with ACM cladding (the same type as Grenfell) have had it removed. Even though the Government's deadline was June 2020: " Progress has been unacceptably
slow"

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmse… Image
- 155 out of 455 buildings have had the cladding fully removed.
- The Dept Housing made £600m available to pay for ACM removal BUT by April 2020 it had only paid out £134m "due in part to difficulties in working with private building owners."
The main recommendation from the Public Accounts Committee is for the MHCLG to meet their new deadline - removing all ACM cladding by the end of 2021. Even though they say "the Government has no convincing plan for how it will meet that new deadline though." Image
The PAC also raises concerns about the fact that MHCLG has no knowledge of how many care homes shorter than 18 metres tall have dangerous ACM cladding.

It demands they carry out that research by the end of the year.
The PAC also slams the Dept for "not fully funding the replacement of [other] dangerous cladding...nor is it
prioritising spending according to greatest risks or need."

The Govt have put up £1b 'first come first served,' when the real cost for fixing all high rises will be £3b
AND there's a very interesting/concerning section about the skills shortage. We know there's not enough engineers to survey these buildings, but also “a chronic shortage of fire engineering and safety expertise, both in the enforcement and inspection field and private sector”.
Concluding comment from the Committee chair @Meg_HillierMP: “the Government must step up and show that it will put a stop to the bickering over who is responsible, who’s going to pay for the remediation – and just put this right.” @LBC

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I’m at the Old Bailey for the sentencing of Jordan McSweeney, who murdered 35-year-old Zara Aleena as she walked home in Ilford in June.

Slight delay as he is refusing to come to court. His defence say he ‘doesn’t want to relive’ the night by watching CCTV played out. @LBC
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5,279 Children were Strip Searched by the Met Police in London in the past three years (that's five every single day.)

THREE QUARTERS of them were from ethnically diverse backgrounds

Just under half were black

Only 22% were white 🧵
lbc.co.uk/news/three-qua…
The Met's already under pressure over its use of the tactic, after a damning report found racism was a factor in a 15-year-old girl, "Child Q", being strip searched while on her period at her school in Hackney, without an appropriate adult in the room.
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This is Tanya and Richard Spinks. She's Ukrainian, he's a Brit, and they both live in Lviv.

On Tuesday, she got an email from the Home Office telling her to go to a visa appointment 500 miles away in *Kyiv*

- to an office that's closed. @LBC
@LBC The booking for an appointment to take her biometrics was made on 18th February - for Wednesday 9th March.

The site has since closed, and they eventually managed to get out to Poland.

But on the 8th they were staggered to get a follow-up email, reminding them to go to Kyiv.
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Now, Sadiq Khan says 20 fire engines and more than 125 firefighters are working to tackle the fire at the block of flats and offices. It's the Relay Building, also home to Houblon Apartments
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