Further resources

 


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Tools

 

Name

Developer/ Author

Type of Resource

Finding the Fuel Poor

Fuel Poverty – Energy Statistics (Low Income High Cost Indicator up to 2012, 10% indicator up to 2011)

DECC

Interactive map

Accessing register data under the EnergyPerformance of Buildings. This shows the SAP ratings and other information for all buildings which have had Energy Performance Certificates lodged.

DCLG

Regulations for accessing EPC data in bulk

 

Resources

 

Name

Developer / Author

Type of Resource

Government legislation

Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act

Gov.uk

Legislation Document

Personal information (section 40 and regulation 13) Freedom of Information Act Environmental information Regulations

Information Commissioner’s Office

Legislation Document

Private rented sector energy efficiency regulations (Domestic)

DECC

Regulation 

Government Data Sources

Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000

 

Gov.uk

Legislation Document

Fuel poverty detailed tables for 10% indicator (2011)

 

DECC

Data tables

Fuel poverty detailed tables for LIHC indicator (2013)

 

DECC

Data tables

Fuel poverty methodology handbook

DECC

Methodology for producing fuel poverty statistics

Census 2001 dataset KS18

ONS

Census data

Census 2011 dataset KS402EW

ONS

Census data

English Housing Survey, 2013: Housing Stock Data. (2015)

DCLG

Data (UK Data Service. SN: 7802.)

Fuel Poverty: Households (%) in fuel poverty 2006-11

DECC

Interactive map

Winter Fuel Payment

Gov.uk

Government Guide

Met Office climate data

Met Office

Data

 

Useful Links for organisations that work to tackle fuel poverty

National Energy Action

 

Charity

Home Heat Helpline

 

Advice Line

Energy Savings Trust

 

Advice Charity

Citizens Advice

 

Advice Charity

Right to Fuel

 

Campaign Body

Energy Bill Revolution

 

Campaign

Turn 2 Us

 

Grant Funding Body

How To Improve Health And Wellbeing Through Action On Affordable Warmth

UK Health Forum

Guidance

Recommendations on how to reduce the risk of death and ill health associated with living in a cold home

National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)

Guidance

 

Government assistance on fuel poverty

Winter fuel payment

Government

Website guidance

Cold weather payment

Government

Website guidance

The warm home discount scheme

Government

Website guidance

 

Other guidance on fuel poverty assistance

Funding and grants

CSE

Website advice

Tackling fuel poverty through local leadership

 

Local Government association

Advice sheet

 

Information about the health impacts of living in cold homes

The Health Impacts of Cold Homes and Fuel Poverty

Marmot Review Team

Report for Friends of the Earth

 

Government Reports on Fuel Poverty

Getting the measure of fuel poverty. CASE report 72

CASE for DECC

Report

Cutting the cost of keeping warm: a new fuel poverty strategy for England (March 2015)

DECC

Report

Latest English (and UK) fuel poverty statistics

DECC

Statistics

Latest Scottish report on fuel poverty nationally

The Scottish Government

Report

Local authority-level fuel poverty statistics for Scotland

The Scottish Government

Statistics

Welsh fuel poverty projections

The Welsh Government

Statistics

LIHC Report (full report, summaries, and data available)

DECC

Report

Cutting the cost of keeping warm: A new fuel poverty strategy for England

DECC

Report

 

Other Government documents

English Housing Survey Headline Report 2013-14

DCLG

Survey report

Decent Homes: refurbishing social housing

DCLG The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MPMinister of State for Housing and HCA

Policy detail

Fuel Poverty in the Private Rented and Off-Grid Sectors

National Private Tenants Organisation (FP 10)

Memo

2009, Chief Medical Officer, Annual Report

Department of Health

Report

The causes and effects of fuel poverty

DTI

Report chapter

Investigation into Overheating in Homes: Literature review

DCLG

Report

Health and Safety Rating System

DCLG

Guidance

Warm and Healthy Homes

LGG: Environment and Housing

Report

 

Non-governmental reports on fuel poverty

Disability poverty in the UK

Leonard Cheshire Disability

Report

Fuel poverty and disability

Not available online; contact Leonard Cheshire Disability

Leonard Cheshire Disability

Report

Fuel poverty and disability: a statistical analysis of the English Housing Survey

Department of Social Policy and Social Work, The University of York

Report

In the Balance: Disabled people’s experiences of debt

Not available online; contact Leonard Cheshire Disability

Leonard Cheshire Disability

Report

Fuel Poverty: 2014 Update

Energy Bill Revolution for the Association for the Conservation of Energy

Update Report

The plight of low income families and young people living in fuel poverty

Barnado’s

Report

Fact file: Families and fuel poverty (10% definition used)

ACE and EBR

Report

Time to reconsider UK energy and fuel poverty policies?

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Report paper

A minimum energy efficiency standard for private rented properties

Multiple charities and organisations

Joint statement

You just have to get by: Coping with low incomes and cold

CSE team: Anderson, White and Finney. For the eaga Charitable Trust

Report

A British Property Federation Guide to Energy Efficiency and the Private Rented Sector

British Property Federation

Report

Fuel Poverty: How to improve health and wellbeing through action on affordable warmth

Jo Butcher, UK Health Forum

Report

Excess winter deaths and morbidity and the health risks associated with cold homes

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Public Health draft guideline

The health impacts of cold homes and fuel poverty

Marmot Review Team

Report

Distribution of carbon emissions in the UK: implications for domestic energy policy

CSE for JRF

Report

Tackling fuel poverty during the transition to a low-carbon economy

Ekins, P. & Lockwood, M. For JRF

Report

Freedom from Fuel Poverty

CSE

Report

Health and fuel poverty – a review of literature

CSE

Report

Private tenants are trapped into higher fuel bills

Citizens Advice

News article

Shop around: How renters can save on their energy bills

Generation rent

Website blog

 

 

Personal accounts and case studies

 

Name

Developer / Author

Type of Resource

Personal accounts on the reality of living in fuel poverty

Fuel poverty and disability

Disability Action

Briefing Paper

Fuel poverty: 'There comes a point where you can't put more clothes on'

 

The Guardian

Online Article

Leading the way in eradicating fuel poverty

 

Centre for Sustainable Energy

Video

Fuel poverty in rural England

Age UK

Audio File

 

Case studies

Salford's Affordable Warmth Scheme aimed to raise awareness of the energy-efficiency help, such as Warm Front grants, available to local people and they did this by making presentations at pension’s lunch clubs, placing local newsletter adverts and working with a local service provider to Black and Minority Salford communities.

 

 

 

The Warmer Worcestershire Project aims to promote energy efficiency and help local residents save money on fuel bills. It started with a thermal image survey of Worcester to illustrate the heat loss from property roofs.

 

 

 

Blackpool City Council ran a pilot project with NHS Blackpool that used their flu vaccine mailing lists to inform people about the options available to them.

 

 

 

Huntingdonshire District Council is working with the BRE on the Green House project to develop whole-house refurbishment strategies which result in houses which are more efficient, healthier and cheaper to run. The team has recruited industry partners and aims to use two refurbished properties as educational resources for homeowners, housing providers, tradespeople, suppliers and educational institutions.

 

 

 

DASH (Decent and Safe Homes) service is an initiative run between property owners, landlords and tenants and aims to improve housing conditions in the private sector with a  focus on private rented housing. Referrals were also made to DASH by the Guidance for Living Over Winter (GLOW) scheme which was backed by the Council, NHS and voluntary organisations.

 

 

 

Teignbridge District Council's Landlord Energy Assistance scheme provides advice to landlords on grants for energy efficiency measures.

 

 

 

The North (and Central) Staffordshire Landlord Accreditation scheme aims to improve standards.

 

 

 

Waveney District Council

 

 

 

Greater Nottingham Healthy Housing Service

 

 

 

Aspley Super Warm Zone was one of the UK Government’s 100 pilot CESP schemes. It was a two year programme that delivered whole-house refurbishments focussing primarily on solid wall insulation.

 

 

 

Islington's SHINE scheme stands for Seasonal Health Intervention Network and is a one-stop referral system working in collaboration with other community groups and advice teams. Those who are considered to be vulnerable or have long-term illnesses are prioritised.

 

 

 

Islington planning and building control

 

 

 

Snow Angels is the result of a partnership between organisations involved in health, housing, environmental & emergency planning and the local community to provide community-based responses to extreme cold weather in a rural area.

 

 

 

Fuel Poverty and Warm Homes: A Strategy for Liverpool

Liverpool LA

Report

Stroud Target 2050 loan

Stroud LA

Booklet

 

Government advice for landlords

PIM2072 – Deductions: General rules: Main types of expenses: Landlord’s Energy Savings Allowance (LESA)

Advice

 

 

Landlord advice

Private sector housing and landlord advice

Sheffield

Website advice

Energy Efficiency, Fuel Poverty and Environmental Health: Information and advice for private sector landlords

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Guidance report

Home Heat Helpline

Energy UK

Helpline

Fuel Poverty Action

 

Website

 

 

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