Warm Homes, Healthy Futures
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Warm Homes, Healthy Futures is a National Energy Action-led project. It is a nationally co-ordinated network, connecting health and social care sectors, that delivers support locally to keep people warm, safe and healthy at home.
Working in partnership to tackle fuel poverty and improve health
Warm Homes, Healthy Futures is National Energy Action led project. It is a nationally co-ordinated network, connecting health and social care sectors, that delivers support locally to keep people warm, safe and healthy at home.
Together, we – with health, housing and energy experts – are working to tackle fuel poverty and improve health for thousands of people across England, Scotland and Wales.
National Energy Action and partners will work to support local health and housing bodies to harness critical insights and evidence the positive impact that fuel poverty services have.
These insights will highlight best practice in delivery, the benefits to health, as well as the lived experience of support.
The programme will enable effective partnership working between health, energy and housing, working collaboratively at area-based levels to tackle health inequalities and fuel poverty as part of a shared agenda.
Warm Homes, Healthy Futures is funded by the Vulnerability and Carbon Monoxide Allowance Fund. The programme is supported by the gas networks, Cadent, Northern Gas Networks, SGN, and Wales and West Utilities.
The link between cold homes and unhealthy futures
Up to 50%
Up to 50%
Damp homes are linked to a 30-50% increase in respiratory problems.
10,000
10,000
On average, 10,000 people die each year from living in a cold home. And for every death there are eight no-fatal hospital admissions.
25%
25%
A quarter of young people living in cold homes have multiple mental health risks, compared to 1 in 20 in warm homes.
Because of my daughter’s medical equipment, we can’t cut back on electricity but we cut back on everything else . Our energy adviser got us a new cooker and a winter warmth support pack, insulation items and a heated drying rack. Now we’re ont rationing every tiny thing.
Warm Homes, Healthy Futures client