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Integrated Working in Response to Fuel Poverty

Training Session Dates:

2010:
05 May		1.30pm - 4.00pm
09 July		9.30am - 12 Noon
07 October		1.30pm - 4.00pm
01 December		9.30am - 12 Noon
2011
03 February		9.30am - 12 Noon

 

 

 

 

Who is this for:
Managers and practitioners working in services or organisations supporting children, young people and their families

Objectives:
To examine the links between fuel poverty, housing, ill health and associated family problems
Consider some of the fuel poverty related policies that impact upon families
Receive information on how the 3 domains of the CAF have implications on fuel poverty and how the assessment can be a mechanism for referring potentially fuel-poor families
To understand the methods of identifying families at increased risk from problems such as physical, mental and emotional illness, and education and employment difficulties because of cold damp homes
To examine household issues such as finances, heating and provision of food and how they link to potential problems with energy efficiency and fuel bills/fuel debt
Receive information on how to refer vulnerable householders in Gateshead for help and advice