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David O'Connell
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Thanks Colin!
November 23, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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Every step of authority - from Kensington&Chelsea council to London authorities to central govt and dept officials - failed to prevent this happening.

Many created the conditions that allowed this to happen, deregulating an already underegulated sector which was known to be malfeasant for profit.
2.59 2.60 RBKC was responsible for overseeing the TMO's activities, not monitoring its operations on a day-to-day basis, but its oversight of the MO's performance was weak and fire safety was not subject to any key performance indicator. The absence of any independent or rigorous scrutiny by RBKC of the MO's performance of its health and safety obligations, and in particular its management of fire safety, was a particular weakness. RBKC took little or no account of an independent and highly critical review of fire safety carried out for the TMO in 2009. It did not even know about a further independent and highly critical report produced in 2013 because the TMO had failed to disclose it to RBKC.' The TMO's performance of its own functions and the effectiveness of RBKC's oversight depended on full and candid reporting by the TMO's senior management to its board. Although there was a satisfactory system for senior management to report to the board and to RBKC, it did not operate effective
September 4, 2024 at 11:07 AM