The council said a new procedure would be in place by Friday to log all reported fatalities and near-miss falls from high-rises, with new guidance outlining when a safety report was required.
All fatalities would also reported to the council’s housing policy committee, the authority added.
In response to the coroner’s concerns, the council said: “[We] acknowledge that following Saffra Winn’s death the process to ensure that there were no faults with the windows in the flat was insufficient and relied on documentary evidence from several sources to verify that each window operated as intended.
“However, following the death in December 2023, inspections of the flat windows took place as soon as possible by housing staff to identify any issues.”
The authority added: “It was noted that in this case, again, all windows and restrictors operated as required with no issues reported.”
A new “high-rise forum” has been established and would discuss window safety at its first meeting, the council concluded.
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