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This seems ridiculous, but right as @aggi said.
East Sussex curtain walling specialist Harley Curtain Wall has been placed in administration.
Assets of the firm were sold in a pre-pack deal to Harley Facades, although 11 staff were made redundant.
Harley Facades is run by former Harley Curtain Wall director Richard Bailey.That absolutely isn't a stitch up, right.
http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2015/09/14/cladding-firm-harley-curtain-wall-pre-packed/
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If the cladding had to be installed in a certain way to meet the regulations and it turns out it wasn't then building control should have picked up on it. I don't know much about building control but I'm sure they have liability insurance partly to cover them for the fact that they are not going to remove and inspect every installed panel.
I've worked for contractors on council projects before, the contract usually gets parted out to less and less experienced and reputable companies who employ increasingly casual and inexperienced labour and demand unreasonable targets, encouraging the workforce to "just get it done" because the tenants of social housing are looked down on by the foremen. Quite often these companies will fold at the end of the project and leave the tradesmen short a few weeks pay.
Going back to the 70's there were concrete panel high-rises that were missing half of the bolts that were supposed to hold them together, saving time and money for the contractors. I won't be surprised if this turns out to be a similar story, some part of the system was possibly routinely compromised to save time/money as well as the terrible decision not to use a fire-proof material.