Michael Gove has accused some housing associations of ‘neglecting’ vulnerable tenants and being too focused on their finances, but denied that funding cuts had led to the situation.

In an interview conducted in the wake of the death of toddler Awaab Ishak from toxic mould last year, as well as the discovery that the body of tenant Sheila Seleoane had lain undiscovered for two years in a Peabody flat, the housing secretary said social housing landlords’ treatment of tenants had in some cases been “unacceptable” and had prompted recent changes to regulation.

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