Part 4: Higher-risk buildings Engagement with residents etc Section 91: Residents’ engagement strategy
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	This section requires the Principal Accountable Person, to produce and act in accordance with a Residents’ Engagement Strategy. This is a strategy that should promote the participation of residents and owners of a residential unit (e.g. flat owners) in decision-making about building safety risks in their building. In preparing and implementing the Residents’ Engagement Strategy we expect every other Accountable Person in the building (if there is more than one) to cooperate with the Principal Accountable Person as much as possible. The high-level requirements for the content of the Residents’ Engagement Strategy are set out in subsection (3) and confirm that the strategy will need to contain:
the information that will be provided to residents about decisions relating to the management of the building;
the scope of what residents will be consulted on;
the methods that will be used to seek residents’ views; and
details of how the appropriateness of the strategy will be measured and reviewed.
	The Principal Accountable Person must review (and where necessary or appropriate revise) the Residents’ Engagement Strategy at specified times which can be set out by the Secretary of State in regulations.
	This section also requires the Principal Accountable Person to consult residents and owners of a residential unit on the Residents’ Engagement Strategy itself in prescribed circumstances. Any representations received as part of this consultation must be considered when the strategy is next reviewed. The Secretary of State has the power to establish in regulations in what circumstances the strategy will be consulted on.
	Each Accountable Person is responsible for providing a copy of the strategy to residents and owners of residential units in the part of the building for which they are responsible.
	The Secretary of State has the power to make regulations to add to the requirements around the content of the Residents’ Engagement Strategy. It is envisaged that these provisions will also be supported by Good Practice Guidance to provide practical help to Principal Accountable Persons in developing their Residents’ Engagement Strategy including worked examples and templates, for which the Residents Panel should be one of the statutory consultees (see section 11).