Useful Resources
- Ashden’s Learning Out Loud platform.
- Citizens Advice and Cornwall Council’s Local Authority Toolkit: Supporting Fuel Poor and Vulnerable Households. For use by local authorities, health and third sector partners to work together to reduce fuel poverty in their localities through energy efficiency initiatives.
- HACT’s social value toolset to help housing providers, their suppliers and partners to understand and implement social value measurement and to use social value as a tool to inform decisions. Includes a tool to calculate the mental health impact of energy efficiency work.
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance on how to reduce the risk of ill health and deaths associated with living in a cold home.
- World Health Organisation’s Health and Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for cycling and walking. Enables users without expertise in impact assessment to conduct economic assessments of the health impacts of walking and cycling.
- Public Health England review on improving access to green space.
- Making the Most of Green Space for People’s Health guidance.
- The Thriving Places Index provides data on a range of quality of life outcomes. Local authority areas are rated and given an annual scorecard, presenting an overview of their performance against these outcomes – including community cohesion, place and environment, health, work and the local economy.
- The Centre for Alternative Technology’s Zero Carbon Britain Resource Hub includes a wide variety of tools, reports, guidance, training, webinars etc on various themes related to local climate action.
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