A series of webinars featuring landlords and health and housing officials take place next week.
Damp & Mould Action and Awareness Week – set up by a private company – is between October 28 and November 3 and is described as aiming “to give a platform for leading voices to come together and to highlight what is already being done and how more can be done to help.”
Webinars will discuss Effective Strategies for Managing Damp and Mould; Improving the Indoor Environment to Address Damp and Mould; and Housing and Patient Health.
Guests during the week include Dr Gareth Morgan who leads the Housing and Health Guide for the NHS in Wales and has 30 years’ experience working within the sector.
Tim Walker, a Research Fellow at the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health at Exeter University, will also feature as well as Jenny Danson from the Healthy Homes Hub and a Q&A with Simon Jones from Air Quality Matters.
The Healthy Homes Hub has also announced it will record a podcast to be broadcast during the week to give an added spotlight on efforts to create an annual focus on a complex problem that still needs extra resources to make a real difference.
“A key focus for this first dedicated week is to bring together those with expertise in this area and those who face the consequences of problems with damp and mould so that any awareness we raise or actions we take now and in the future will have a real impact on change for the better” says Chris Jones of HomeLINK.
“Damp and mould can be an issue at any time, but is particularly prevalent in the autumn and winter months between October and April, making this time of year ideal to do something like this.
“We have been hugely encouraged by the leading voices and organisations that have already backed this initiative and our hope is that it becomes an annual event in the calendar.
“This problem is massively complex and there continues to be a lot of work that needs to be done to not only change misconceptions around who is to blame, but also to encourage more support and funding for those who are trying to make a positive change in this area.
“The idea of the Damp & Mould Action and Awareness week is an excellent way of improving knowledge and understanding of how these issues may be better understood and addressed.”
This article is taken from Landlord Today