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Cold Homes Toolkit

This content applies to England and Wales. See content for Northern Ireland, Scotland.

We’ve been working with Cornwall Council to make toolkits to help Local Authorities and Health Trusts to tackle fuel poverty. Benefits include better standards of living, improved and more energy efficient houses, fewer avoidable winter deaths and reduces costs for the health, wellbeing and care services.

Based on good practice from across England, the toolkits offer useful insight on the most effective ways of working, along with helpful case studies, and useful resources.

Local Authority toolkit 2.43 MB  

Health professionals toolkit 5.66 MB  

Watch our videos to find out more

How to develop and maintain a cold homes referral system

How to identify people vulnerable to cold

How to maximise income

Capital investment

Help us evaluate

If you’re downloading either of the toolkits, please can you send us an email [email protected]. We’ll be evaluating the kits later this year and we’d like to get in touch to see if you found them useful.

All we need is your name, an email address and phone number.

If you have any questions or need any help please contact [email protected]

What we're doing to help 

Read about Citizens Advice's work to set up housing and health referral services:

​​Warm homes, affordable fuel and healthy people: full report 2.29 MB

Warm homes, affordable fuel and health people: summary report 512 KB