"No one can listen to our calls?" a manager from Clarion, the UK's largest housing association, asks one of her team on a recording that has been leaked to Sky News.

"Don't tell anyone I told you this," she goes on - before instructing him how to pretend he's put up an important fire safety notice in one of their buildings.

"Just put it up on a plain bit of wall ... take a picture," she says, telling him that she'll "come and find" him if it turns out she can't trust him.

She brags about her management style. "I'm trying to help you hit your targets," she says - adding: "My team is always on point, We always meet our targets."

The recording will add to fears of residents of social housing that their safety is not taken seriously by landlords.

The conversation took place in 2022. It wa

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