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This morning, we've been receiving more reaction to yesterday's damning report into the Grenfell Tower fire.

The deaths of all 72 people in the 2017 blaze in west London were avoidable and had been preceded by "decades of failure" by government, other authorities and the building industry, inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick's report concluded.

We will soon be closing our live page coverage, but before we do, here's some of what's been said this morning.

• Housing secretary Angela Rayner says there are plans to accelerate remediation work on buildings with dangerous cladding, but there is no timeline
• Grenfell survivor Miguel Alves says it is now down to the police to get the "justice that we need"
• Grenfell survivor Antonio Roncolato says "waiting another 18 months... so be it", as long as "those responsible" are "held to account". The Metropolitan Police has said it will need an estimated 12 to 18 months to pore over the inquiry's report "line by line" before any criminal charges are brought

• It is not clear if all buildings with unsafe cladding have been identified, housing minister Matthew Pennycook says
• Kimia Zabihyan, who represents the Grenfell Next of Kin group, says families feel "justice has been delayed and denied"

The Grenfell inquiry outlined 58 recommendations to address "decades of failure", but BBC journalist Kate Lamble asks if they are enough.

She says key details that still need to be made clear are how the government will speed up the remediation process and where the money will come from.

Lamble, who produced the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast, adds that governments "don't have to carry out" the recommendations in inquiries, though there is a call for this to change.

We’ve just heard from Beryl Menzies, a fire safety expert and the former president of the Association of Building Engineers.

She says there has been change when it comes to building controls in the years since the Grenfell fire.

“It’s more regulated now. The building safety regulator that has been put in place is now the only building control body that can deal with buildings such as those the size of Grenfell,” she adds.

Menzies welcomes the recommendation by the inquiry, to appoint an independent panel, external to consider whether it is in the public interest for building control functions to be performed by those who have a commercial interest in the process.

"Trauma doesn't have a sell-by date", says Grenfell community worker Moyra Samuels, who lives near the tower.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, she tells Nicky Campbell that there is an outpouring of "community suffering" seven years on from the Grenfell disaster.

She says there are now teenagers who are "starting to face mental health challenges" after the fire on 14 June 2017.

Samuels adds that this trauma is "exacerbated by the lack of justice" and asks how the Grenfell community will get "closure" without criminal proceedings.

"It makes people feel their lives are not as worthwhile as others," she adds.

Steve Dudeney, former London Fire Brigade borough commander, says current laws on cladding are "confusing" and "the rot of this starts at the top".

He now works as a fire safety consultant and tells BBC Radio 5 Live the deregulation of the industry over many years has made things "worse".

Just last week, he says he found issues with residential flats that had holes between floors and doors that won't self-close. He adds these issues could cause a fire to spread.

Figures from the ministry of housing, communities and local government show that 4,630 buildings have been identified as having unsafe cladding.

1,835 of them are between 11 and 18m in height.

Whilst 2,795 are higher than 18m.

According to government figures - of those 4,630 buildings - 50% are in-programme, 21% are underway on-site and 29% are completed.

Housing Secretary Angela Raynor told BBC Breakfast this morning of plans to accelerate remediation work in public and private buildings.

Steph, from Radcliffe, says she is living in a building with flammable cladding.

Also appearing on BBC Radio 5 Live, she says they were told it was compliant in 2017, but three years later in 2020, were informed it was not.

Since then, she says they have been campaigning and progress is now being made, but adds "'it's still a long way to go".

A resident who lives in West London, 15 minutes away from the Grenfell Tower, says the building they live in is not compliant with safety regulations, and "everybody is terrified."

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, the caller - who doesn't want to be named - says the relevant bodies have been informed and her local MP.

"Real people have to live with the consequences," the resident adds.

In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, the then-Conservative government established a Building Safety Programme to work towards ensuring the safety of high-rise residential buildings.

Data on identified buildings with problems - both high-rise and mid-rise - and the programme's progress is released monthly.

As of the end of July 2024, 4,630 residential buildings of 11 metres and taller had been identified as having unsafe cladding, external in England, according to the latest update.

For 50% of those, remediation work had either begun or was completed, while 29% had completed remediation works.

Of the buildings with ACM cladding - the same as was used for Grenfell Tower - 88% have completed remediation. 2% (11 buildings one of which is vacant) were yet to start.

Vicky Spratt, the i's housing correspondent, warns the inquiry’s recommendations make it clear we have a “building safety crisis in this country”.

Speaking to the BBC, she says “homes are not safe, seven years on after Grenfell”, adding that the figure for buildings impacted by the cladding crisis is a “severe undercount”.

As we’ve reported, 4,630 buildings - 11 metres and over in height, external - have been identified with dangerous cladding.

Spratt points out that the figure does not include buildings with cladding and fire safety issues that are under 11 metres.

She says a key point in the inquiry report is changing how at-risk buildings are classified by not just focusing on height, but also on the presence of vulnerable residents.

“If you’re on the fourth floor of a four-storey block and you need a wheelchair, you’re not safe," Spratt says.

Cladding was “by far the largest contributor” to the Grenfell fire, according to research by two inquiry experts - but what made it so dangerous?

The cladding used on Grenfell Tower was called Aluminium Composite Material, or ACM. It was made from polyethylene (PE), plastic sandwiched between two very thin sheets of aluminium.

One standard way of installing cladding is to fold it into box shapes, to hide the fixings. This “cassette” system was used at Grenfell Tower.

This cladding was "extremely dangerous" and combustible when folded in such a way, which allowed flaming pools of plastic to form, according to evidence to the inquiry.

Yesterday's report found there had been “systematic dishonesty” from those who made and sold the cladding.

• You can read more about the findings here

Nicky Campbell is taking phone calls on BBC Radio 5 Live.

He's speaking to Kimia Zabihyan, who represents the Grenfell Next of Kin group, supporting those who lost people in the fire.

She says the families she has spoken to felt "justice has been delayed and denied" by going ahead with the inquiry, before possible legal and police action.

The families "are quite cross" about the inquiry being done first, Zabihyan adds, saying it is "a very conflicted and complex picture".

She says the victims voices are still being "marginalised" and also "ignored".

Grenfell survivors Miguel Alves and Antonio Roncolato say they are glad the report highlights that lives "could have been saved" on the night of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Alves says it is now down to the police to get the "justice that we need".

The Metropolitan Police has said it will need an estimated 12 to 18 months to pore over the inquiry's report "line by line" before any criminal charges are brought.

Roncolato now says "waiting another 18 months... so be it", as long as they bring those responsible to justice.

"We want to see those responsible, with blood on their hands, held to account."

The pair say they want to see action, a time frame and a plan.

On the night of the fire, Alves went to the 13th floor to rescue his children and wife, and alerted other people to the blaze.

He says this was a "small thing" he could do on the night.

Roncolato was in his flat until just before 06:00. When the fire started entering his flat, he had to get his son who was outside to alert the firefighters. He was the second last person to be rescued.

We heard from Angela Rayner a moment ago that it's "difficult to say" if families are 100% safe in their homes.

Last night, housing minister Matthew Pennycook told BBC Newsnight that he "fully accepts the role that government has played over many decades in not preventing this tragedy."

When pressed by Victoria Derbyshire on the number of buildings with dangerous cladding, Pennycook said we "don't know for certain that all the buildings that are dangerous have been identified."

The leader of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea council, who took on her role shortly after the fire, tells the BBC she accepts all the findings of the final Grenfell inquiry report.

Elizabeth Campbell apologises to residents of the tower block, saying they were "failed" by the council both before and after the devastating fire that left 72 people dead.

You can watch her remarks back in the clip below:

Rayner is now pushed on whether people should go to prison for what happened at Grenfell Tower.

She says it is a matter for the police and not an issue she should be commenting on.

"There should be consequences," she adds, adding that she wants to support the police in concluding this as quickly as possible.

She is asked how the government might be punished for its role in the disaster.

Rayner says it is up to the Met Police, and if there was an act of criminality by the government they will get to the bottom of it.

"But I do think that the families deserve that justice," Rayner says.

The housing secretary says she "doesn't have a definitive timeline yet" for addressing the 58 recommendations in the Grenfell inquiry report.

Rayner adds that "there is still way too much to de done", as only 50% of the buildings with dangerous cladding are undergoing remediation work.

She says it's an "incredibly slow process" and there are a number of things still do after the legal action and policy changes brought in by the previous government.

Earlier, the Housing Ombudsman said that social housing tenants are "treated as second class citizens." Rayner is asked how she will stop this.

Rayner says there is a "culture in this country where [tenants] are considered lesser people, and that's disgraceful."

She says they will make sure tenants have a voice and have legislation that protects them and that she recognises people are currently "scared" to raise their concerns.

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Over now to BBC Radio 4's Today programme to hear again from Housing Secretary Angela Rayner.

Following the report, she says there needs to be an assurance that safety is not put above "greed and profit".

She outlines the government's next steps over the next six months to go through the report's 58 recommendations, in order to "get this right".

Rayner says she can't say with an "absolute guarantee" that none of the companies mentioned in the inquiry have any government contracts.

"The PM set out yesterday that these contracts will be blocked," she says.

Ayshea Buksh
Reporting from Grenfell Tower

Last night, Grenfell Tower was lit up in green in memory of the 72 people who died in the fire.

A vigil was held at the foot of the tower.

Local people and families - holding white roses and green balloons - walked from a nearby community centre where they had been holding a discussion and support group following the publication of the final report.

The balloons were released, while prayers and poems were spoken aloud.

Bereaved families, survivors and local people have vowed to keep putting pressure on the police and the government for justice, accountability and change.