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This information helps to prevent the major avoidable effects of cold weather on health.
How to care for animals on farms and at market in severe hot or cold weather, floods or drought.
Cold Weather Payment - what you'll get, eligibility and how to find out if your area is due a payment
You may get Cold Weather Payments if you’re getting certain benefits or…
You may get Cold Weather Payments if you’re getting: Pension Credit Income…
You do not need to apply. If you’re eligible to get Cold Weather Payments,…
If you’re eligible to get Cold Weather Payments, you’ll get £25 for each 7…
Tell the Pension Service or Jobcentre Plus if you go into hospital - this…
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Cold-Health Alert (CHA) action cards summarise suggested actions to be taken by different professional bodies and organisations in the event of cold weather.
Advice on staying well in cold weather, covering issues such as financial help, healthy lifestyle, flu vaccinations and heating.
This information aims to assist professionals in protecting vulnerable people from the health impacts of cold weather in England.
Guidance for non-water company abstraction licence holders affected by prolonged dry weather and drought.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
In semi-arid and sub-humid Africa , variable rainfall, droughts and low water productivity are undermining food security
Cold Weather Payments made in England and Wales, 1 November 2022 to 31 March 2023.
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