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Morning Briefing: Grenfell Inquiry to hear opening statements

After seven days of tributes to victims, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry will today move on to the cause and spread of the fire.

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The BBC has a summary of the plan for the next stage of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, which will hear opening statements today.

Today, the inquiry is also expected to publish five expert reports from different key areas relating to the cause and spread of the fire.

Yesterday’s Observer marked the development by interviewing Edward Daffarn, a member of the Grenfell Action Group, who predicted the fire in 2016.

Mr Daffarn told the newspaper that the inquiry would expose the decision-making process leading up to the fire as “rotten and cancerous”.

The Guardian this morning has coverage of a report from Theos, a Christian thinktank, finding that faith groups stepped up in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, with some faith leaders angry or frustrated about the official response.

Grenfell coverage is all over the media at the moment, and the Daily Mail reports that tower blocks close to Grenfell Tower still have in place the much-criticised ‘stay put’ policy for residents in case of fire.

Elsewhere, housing has found its way into the Department of Health. The Guardian reports on a letter from a coroner to health secretary Jeremy Hunt about the shortage of accommodation for vulnerable people.

The letter came following the death of a man with Asperger syndrome in a care home that had not been inspected by regulator the Care Quality Commission.

In the Home Office too, Sajid Javid is finding he can’t escape housing, as the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants launches a legal challenge against the government’s Right to Rent policy, claiming it is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. The Guardian has the story.

In Scotland, meanwhile, the BBC reports that the number of homeless households has increased by 43% since 2010.

Temporary accommodation is a problem in the South as well, where Slough Borough Council, according to the Slough Express, has said that the growing number of residents in temporary accommodation in the borough is being driven by London councils sending homeless people out of the capital.

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