Michael Gove, the UK’s Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary, has suggested the Government should “look again” at the issue of personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPs) for disabled people.
In response to the urgent demand for more fire testing facilities in the UK, a major new fire resistance testing laboratory at Blockley, Gloucestershire, opened on 15 November, said to feature two of the largest furnaces of their kind.
Protecting vulnerable residents from fire is a key aspect for any care home to consider – just last month a home in Warrington was fined £60,000 for ‘serious breaches’ of fire safety regulations, underlining the importance in getting measures right.
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