It's now a legal requirement for social landlords, including councils, to carry out electrical safety checks on all properties they own or manage. This includes council homes.
As part of our commitment to improve council housing in the borough, we've been reviewing all of our services.
This is to check we're doing everything possible to help keep homes safe and well maintained.
We identified the need to carry out a large programme of electrical tests across many of our council properties.
We're responsible for carrying out these tests called Electrical Installation Condition Reports.
We know that for many tenants they may not have had the best service from the council in the past.
This programme of work is one part of action we're taking to improve homes and services to tenants.
It includes:
To make sure we're getting external oversight of our work we've referred ourselves to the Regulator for Social Housing.
These are an independent organisation responsible for setting standards and pushing for improvements in the social housing sector. We'll be working closely with them.