Electrical Safety Wales

A review of how home safety visits prioritise and resolve electrical safety issues in welsh homes.
Electrical safety wales. Electrical safety is incredibly important and we all have a part to play. The welsh government consider a disrepair scheme to fund electrical safety improvements and checks in vulnerable people s homes in wales. This responsibility is continuous and comes into effect on the 1st july 2020 for all new and renewed tenancies. In wales all landlords and agents of domestic tenancies including assured shorthold tenancies must be registered and or licensed with rent smart wales.
This means that all electrical installation work undertaken in a home in england or wales must by law comply with part p of the building regulations. To keep and obtain a licence a landlord must keep to certain rules and recommendations including electrical safety. The electrical safety standards in the private rented sector england regulations 2020 requires that landlords maintain their property to the electrical safety standards and to be able to provide evidence of this. Coronavirus covid 19 newport city council is following and implementing best practice regarding coronavirus as advised by the government and public health wales.
Every household with a person over 80 receive a free electrical safety check. The law 2 and what you need to know.