RoSPA fears that the Government’s Building Safety Bill is a missed opportunity in its current form. The cost of missing this opportunity will be people’s lives. While RoSPA fully supports the measures that are being implemented on fire safety, there are other, more lethal aspe...

Yesterday, during the second-reading of the Government’s Building Safety Bill, Conservative MP Paul Maynard called for an amendment in support of RoSPA’s safer stairs campaign, which will save countless lives if it is brought into law.   RoSPA is campaigning for the most u...

This morning, The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) warned of a “crisis of patient safety” as they released figures from a recent survey, indicating that nearly two-thirds of emergency departments had ambulances queuing to transfer patients every day. The survey, w...

On 30 th occasion of the UN’s International Day of Older Persons, which is marked every year on 1 st October, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is raising concerns about the links between experiencing a fall at home and poverty in later life. A sp...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is delighted to confirm that the campaign to make stairs safer has achieved a major breakthrough. The Government is now proceeding with a consultation on updating the Building Regulations to include British Standard...