Chapter 8 Poor policy made durable: when digital transformation meets social harm
Content warning: this chapter mentions self-harm and suicide.
1 Introduction
Shortly after 1a.m. on the night of 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in Flat 16 on the fourth floor of a 24-storey tower block of social housing, known as Grenfell Tower, situated in North Kensington, London, UK. While the immediate cause of the fire was attributed to an electrical fault with a fridge freezer, a number of factors have also been identified that contributed to both the spread of the fire and its impacts. These included cladding that had been added to the tower block which was found not to meet Building Regulations; the failure of the ...
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