Webinar: Thursday, August 14th 2025
Programme
- Learn about fuel poverty trends and drivers and the impact of these on public health and the NHS
- Evaluate the government’s Adverse Weather and Health Plan for 2025 and 2026 and exchange views on how this should be built upon and improved to further reduce preventable cold weather-related deaths and ill-health
- Determine the impact of ending winter fuel payment pensioner universality, the adequacy of cold weather payments and assess wider government energy policy aimed at supporting households
- Assess the merits and viability of introducing a social tariff to reduce energy bills for vulnerable households, paid for by energy companies
- Develop strategies to fully insulate the UK’s housing stock and exchange best practice on home insulation and energy efficiency measures among local authorities, housing providers and private developers
- Formulate comprehensive plans to tackle affordability and discrimination in the energy market
- Consider the wider policy reforms required to reduce health inequalities and protect those most at risk from the impacts of adverse weather
- Exchange views on how to improve multi-agency collaboration, integration of health and social care and use of digital technology in cold weather planning and protecting the most vulnerable and promote best practice
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