The FPA has launched its latest policy manifesto highlighting five key areas of fire safety to government and industry.
Following on from its successful campaign last year, the FPA’s 2025 manifesto calls attention to the work that is still needed in areas such as remediation, competency, and construction product regulation.
For decades, the FPA has worked to reduce risks and improve fire safety in UK buildings, sharing fire safety guidance and information with government, industry, insurers, our members, and the wider public. The 2025 policy manifesto is designed to help further those aims.
The five policies listed in this year’s manifesto are:
- Prosecute those who have failed to remediate unsafe buildings
- Take action against those who have put others’ lives at risk by not discharging their duties.
- Regulate the ongoing competency of fire risk assessors
- In addition to all fire risk assessors being appropriately qualified and certified under a suitable UKAS accredited scheme, regulate their ongoing professional development to maintain competence.
- Mandate sprinkler protection in schools
- Require the installation of sprinkler systems in all new and majorly refurbished schools.
- Accelerate construction product safety reforms and establish the new regulator
- Address the compliance of safety-critical construction products and systems by accelerating construction product safety reforms and establishing the new regulator.
- Support the safe transition to net zero
- Develop policies and guidance supporting the transition to net zero, focusing on new energy technologies and low-carbon construction techniques that could detrimentally impact fire safety and property resilience
Speaking on the launch of the manifesto at the 2025 Labour Party Conference, FPA Chief Executive, Dr Gavin Dunn, said: “The FPA’s objective is to protect people, property, and the UK environment whilst enabling innovation in the construction and property sectors, without compromising fire safety. The policy positions we will be actively pursuing throughout 2025 are designed to help achieve this.
“The success of this mission relies on collaboration with government, regulators, and industry, and the FPA stands ready to collaborate with all stakeholders to advance the pragmatic and achievable policies.”
Importantly, these five initiatives can be implemented using existing powers and would drive the transformative change which the FPA considers essential. By prioritising fire safety in these ways, the FPA believes it can protect lives, enhance the economic value of the built environment, and contribute to the overall wellbeing and prosperity of society.
You can access the full FPA 2025 Fire Safety Policy Manifesto here.
