Health starts at home – progress on tackling damp and mould

The sector has been focused on tackling damp and mould following the death of Awaab Ishak in 2020 and the coroner’s report of 2022. The introduction of Awaab’s Law will bring a legal drive to improve homes, but also potentially expand to include all the hazards, which brings a wider approach to tenants’ wellbeing that landlords need to address.

We will:

• Provide an update on what progress the sector is making
• Explore lessons that can help with future work on other hazards, as proposed in Awaab’s Law
• Draw out what support the sector needs to meet those challenges.

Your speakers:

• Stephanie Allen, head of asset strategy and delivery, Riverside

As a large national landlord, Stephanie will look at how Riverside is approaching the programme of identifying and improving homes, and how tenants’ wellbeing is factored into its approaches. She will explore what support the sector needs to expand the approach into other hazards.

• Connie Jennings, director of stronger communities, WHG

Connie will discuss WHG’s programme to ensure asthma friendly homes, and how its partnership with the local health partners is helping to shape this. She will also explore lessons to transfer to other housing interventions that can support tenants’ health.

• Dorota Pawlowski, partner, Trowers & Hamlins LLP

Dorota will take a legal look at how landlords are and need to be preparing for the introduction of Awaab’s Law

• Chair: Dr Eve Blezard, policy and practice officer, CIH policy team

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