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Understanding Awaab’s Law and its Impact
Awaab’s Law, named after two-year-old Awaab Ishak, places strict legal duties on landlords to investigate and remedy hazards such as damp and mould within defined timescales.
Key changes include:
- Serious health hazards must be investigated and addressed within fixed timescales.
- Emergency hazards must be acted on within 24 hours.
- Awaab's Law comes into force for social landlords, with plans to extend requirements to private landlords through the Renters' Rights Bill at a date yet to be confirmed.
This represents a fundamental shift toward proactive property management and tenant safety, and demands modern systems to manage compliance effectively.
How Access Adam Housing Supports Compliance and Safety
Access Adam Housing provides a single, secure platform for commissioning, managing and monitoring accommodation. By embedding compliance into daily workflows, housing teams can confidently meet Awaab's Law requirements and evidence their efforts.
Key Capabilities of Access Adam Housing:
- Property and Provider Compliance Management: Ensure every property and provider meets regulatory standards before onboarding and maintain compliance over time. Track certifications, safety inspections, and hazard responses at the individual property level, with automated alerts for expiring certificates or outstanding safety actions. Monitor compliance history and performance metrics to identify risks before they become issues.
- Ongoing Compliance Monitoring: Continuously track each property's compliance status with real-time visibility into safety certificates, inspection schedules, and maintenance records. Set up automated reminders for renewal dates and required inspections, ensuring no property falls out of compliance.
- Marketplace Expansion: Quickly access a wider variety of compliant accommodation options, with each property verified against regulatory standards and additional requirements such as accessibility or local amenities.
- Centralised Bookings and Requests: Manage referrals, complaints, and changes from one platform with full visibility, ensuring all safety-related issues are logged, tracked, and resolved within required timeframes.
- Financial Accuracy: Deliver 100% invoice accuracy, automate provider payments, and achieve FTE savings.
- Faster Placements: Place people into appropriate housing faster with real-time visibility into compliant, available properties that meet both safety standards and individual needs.
- Rich Reporting: Generate comprehensive compliance reports showing property-by-property safety status, response times to hazards, and regulatory adherence. Inform decision-making and create a transparent process for internal and external stakeholders, with audit-ready documentation.
Using Adam Housing as the foundation of your housing operations allows you to move from reactive maintenance to proactive care - essential to staying ahead of Awaab's Law requirements and ensuring every property under your management consistently meets safety standards.
Enhancing Safety with Technology Enabled Care
For providers who want to go further, The Access Group’s Technology Enabled Care (TEC) solutions can be integrated with Access Adam Housing. This offers an extra layer of protection by keeping an eye on environmental risks and safeguarding vulnerable residents.
TEC can:
- Keep an eye on conditions like damp, mould, and temperature in real time.
- Alert teams to hazards earlier, reducing emergency repairs and health risks.
- Link housing data with social care and health systems to better protect vulnerable tenants.
This optional enhancement builds on Access Adam Housing’s core strengths, giving providers a holistic approach to property safety and resident wellbeing.
What should be your next steps?
With public focus intensifying, organisations have a real opportunity to safeguard their residents and demonstrate leadership. By using Access Adam Housing - and adding TEC where needed, providers can:
- Commission and manage housing safely and transparently.
- Evidence compliance with Awaab’s Law.
- Reduce emergency repairs, long-term property damage, and health-related tenancy issues.
This aligns with wider proactive-first priorities across adult social care and public health strategies, delivering safer, healthier living environments for tenants.
Key Takeaway
Awaab’s Law raises the bar for how landlords manage property risks. Access Adam Housing gives housing providers a powerful, proven way to strengthen compliance, streamline operations and protect residents.
For organisations wanting an even greater level of safety, The Access Group’s TEC solutions can add proactive care taking environmental solution to this foundation - ensuring a comprehensive approach to safer homes.
