A fire service has dropped its prosecution case for alleged breaches of fire safety regulations against four companies involved in the design, risk assessment, management and maintenance of a care home in Crewe.

BSI is due to publish soon a revision of BS 9991 – an essential fire safety standard for residential buildings which will now include care homes.

Changes to regulations mean sprinklers must now be included in new buildings but not existing care homes. By Will Mann and Cristina Lago.

Sprinklers will become mandatory in all new care homes in England irrespective of height from 2 March 2025.

A leading construction safety body has raised concerns about fire safety competence in care homes, following two serious incidents.

Six companies are being prosecuted by Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service over a fire at a care home in 2019, following a four-year investigation.

CIOB has written to Michael Gove, Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), requesting a meeting about fire safety rules for care homes.

The government has opened a consultation on whether the regulations concerning sprinklers in care homes should be changed.

FCIOB calls for change to safety regulations governing care homes after mother-in-law’s death in fire. Will Mann reports.

FCIOB Steven Miles and his wife Claire have been campaigning to change the regulations on fire safety in care homes.