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<p>The Government has made a series of funds available to local authorities in support
of necessary fire safety remediation works. This includes the £400 million Social
Sector Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) Cladding Remediation Fund, to fully fund
the remediation of unsafe ACM cladding on social sector residential buildings over
18 million in height, including council-owned blocks. <del class="ministerial">All
eligible publicly owned buildings have started remediation and 69% have completed</del><strong><del
class="ministerial">.</del></strong><ins class="ministerial">Remediation has either
completed or started on 157 social sector residential buildings (98% of social sector
buildings, equating to 100% of buildings identified at 31 December 2019).</ins></p><p>The
Government has also provided support for local authorities carrying out important
and necessary carbon reduction retrofitting, including the £3.8 billion Social Housing
Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF), to support local authorities and housing associations
to improve the energy performance of social rented homes. In addition, there will
be around £160 million total funding for the first wave of the Social Housing Decarbonisation
Fund programme in 2021/22, to make further progress towards delivering the government's
commitment to invest in the energy performance of homes.</p>
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