Politicians are demanding action to improve social housing and protections for tenants after two-year-old Awaab Ishak died from exposure to mould.
, saying they have"no doubt at all" they were"treated in this way because we are not from this country".
In the Commons, Mr Gove admitted there are at least 2.3 million social homes that fail the decent homes standard"and that there are more homes proportionately in the private rented sector than the social rented sector that fail". "At the moment... the system has been too reliant on people fighting their own corner and we are determined to change that. So, the reforms that we're making will help to relieve the burden on tenants with an emboldened and more powerful regulator," he said.
Mr Gove said he has spoken briefly to the chief executive earlier this afternoon and"in the course of that conversation it became even more clear to me that there are systemic problems in the governance and leadership of that organisation".Mr Swarbick, the chief executive of RBH, said he is"truly devastated about Awaab's death and the things we got wrong".
Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday, housing ombudsman Richard Blakeway said:"This is an appalling, heart-breaking case but, sadly, the kind of failures that we saw here, whilst they may not have as tragic a consequence, they often happen and they often cause deep distress, profound distress to residents."
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