Michael Gove has said it 'beggars belief' that the chief executive of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing is still in his job following the death of Awaab Ishak.
The Secretary of State for Housing described the two-year-old's death in December 2020 as an 'unacceptable tragedy' after a coroner concluded that it was brought on by prolonged exposure to mould at his home on Rochdale's Freehold estate.
Rochdale Coroners Court heard that Awaab's dad Faisal Abdullah, who came to the UK as a refugee from Sudan in 2015, had not experienced mould before autumn 2017. When he showed a picture of 'black dots' in his home to a worker at Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH), he was told to 'paint over it', in advice described by Ms Kearsley as 'not clear or effective'.
