This month Six weeks of summer recess, and the Keeble Brown editorial team is back from the works outing with memories of lying by a pool fading already. Although we were resting, the building safety communication transparency agenda definitely did not take a holiday. Coming up in this issue, social tenants get a statutory right to information from 1 October, the under 11m cladding fund is open and closing on 9 October, and a tribunal has made clear it will not simply reset a missed remediation deadline. Regulatory update The main story this month is transparency. The Housing Ombudsman’s updated

This month July was the busiest month of the year so far. A single ministerial statement on 9 July packaged together new cladding funding for buildings below 11 metres, the long-awaited single construction regulator response, and further proportionality reforms. The Building Safety Levy timetable solidified, and Parliament received Awaab’s Law Phase 2. For those with resident-facing responsibilities, the communications implications this month are as significant as the legal ones. Regulatory update Written Ministerial Statement HCWS209 (9 July) was the centrepiece of the month. It confirmed targeted funding to remediate unsafe cladding on multi-occupancy residential buildings under 11 metres in England,

This month May and early June have been a period of deadlines landing and data improving. Two significant consultations have now closed, the BSR’s latest Gateway 2 figures are the most encouraging yet, and the Grenfell Inquiry progress report signals that professional competence reform is moving from consultation into delivery. For organisations communicating with residents and communities about building safety, each of these developments has a practical dimension worth thinking about now. Remembering Grenfell On 14 June, communities across the country marked the ninth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, in which 72 people lost their lives. The annual silent