Electrical Safety in Social Rented Homes: Working Group

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government are forming a stakeholder Working Group to inform the content of our consultation on electrical safety in the social rented homes sector.

The Charter for social housing residents: social housing white paper, published on 17 November 2020, announced a consultation on electrical safety in the social rented sector. As per our commitment during the Fire Safety Bill debate last November, we are forming a Working Group to inform the consultation.

Working Group

Government has invited representatives from the social sector and technical specialist groups to a Working Group that will meet between spring and autumn 2021.

Meetings will explore the best way to protect social residents from electrical harm, with the aim of producing a report that will inform the content of the consultation.

If you would like to be involved in the Working Group as a non-core participant, please email SRSelectricalsafety@communities.gov.uk.

Consultation

Government will consider the findings of the Working Group along with other evidence on electrical safety, and take any new policy proposals forward in a consultation.

Further details on how we will be seeking further input will be announced in due course.

Further Information

For any further information on the consultation or Working Group, please contact SRSelectricalsafety@communities.gov.uk.