This guidance offers advice on caring for people most at risk during hot weather.
It is part of a wider collection of documents providing guidance on how to minimise the health effects of adverse weather and to build community resilience.
Sign up for Adverse Weather Alerts from UK Health Security Agency here – (this system takes a risk based approach – ie. looking at both weather and social factors to assess risk)
VCSE Heat-Health Action Card -gives useful preparatory guidance for the sector:
- Heat-Health Alert action card for the voluntary and community sector
- The British Red Cross Guidance to Heatwaves in the UK and Heatwave checklist
- Hot weather and health: supporting vulnerable people
