Awaab's Law Phase 2 is coming. Is your housing association ready?

Original author · Crimson: Jordan Wheat

7 Aug 2026

Jordan Wheat argues that Phase 2 preparation needs coordinated frontline reporting, case records and escalation.

Summary by the Awaab’s Law Knowledge Centre · 1 min read

Summary of the article

Wheat describes the expected expansion of significant-hazard requirements as an organisation-wide challenge. The article includes housing officers, contact centres, contractors, caretakers and support staff, rather than limiting responsibility to a specialist damp team.

Its preparation suggestions include testing triage, recording awareness times, training staff and maintaining a traceable history of inspections and action. It then describes how Crimson’s Microsoft and AI services are intended to support those processes.

The services are the author’s commercial proposition, not independently confirmed outcomes. The article’s brief phase and timing descriptions also require care: Phase 1 already covers qualifying emergency hazards beyond damp and mould, and safety work is not merely a requirement to start repairs.

Source: Crimson / LinkedIn — Awaab's Law Phase 2 is coming. Is your housing association ready?

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Phase 2: proposed commencement, not current law

Source check: 27 Sep 2026

At 27 September 2026, the intended Phase 2 start is 30 November 2026, subject to parliamentary approval. The amendment remains in the draft affirmative process. This is a dated check, not a live status feed.

GOV.UK — prospective regulations and approval qualification ↗ · UK Parliament — amendment procedure ↗

Phase 1 is not limited to damp and mould emergencies

Source check: 27 Sep 2026

Phase 1 already covers qualifying emergency hazards beyond damp and mould. Phase 2 expands significant-hazard coverage. Overcrowding itself is excluded.

GOV.UK — Phase 1 scope and emergency hazards ↗ · SI 2025/1042 — definitions and prescribed requirements (PDF) ↗

Do not confuse making safe with the 12-week start limit

Source check: 27 Sep 2026

Significant-hazard safety work generally has to be completed within five working days after investigation, subject to the Regulations’ rehousing provisions and specified conditions. Supplementary preventative work is different: begin it, or take the required steps towards beginning it, within the applicable five-working-day period. If the earlier start is not reasonably practicable, the twelve-week limit is an outer limit for starting, not a universal completion deadline. Completion must be within a reasonable period.

SI 2025/1042 — regulations 5, 11–13 and Part 6 (PDF) ↗

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Awaab's Law Phase 2 is coming. Is your housing association ready?

Summary of the article

A point to read alongside the source

Phase 2: proposed commencement, not current law

Phase 1 is not limited to damp and mould emergencies

Do not confuse making safe with the 12-week start limit

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