Epidemic levels of fuel poverty will cause a ‘significant
humanitarian crisis with millions of children’s development
blighted’, warns Professor Sir Michael Marmot and leading health
experts, in the latest hard-hitting review led by the UCL
Institute of Health Equity.
The Marmot Review warns ‘epidemic-levels’ of fuel poverty will
cause ‘a significant humanitarian crisis with millions of
children’s development blighted’. The latest review, led by the
global expert on health inequalities, Professor Sir Michael
Marmot, Director of UCL Institute of Health Equity, says if half
of UK households fall into fuel poverty it will cause
‘significant health, social and education detriment for millions
of children’.
The report is written in association with Professor Ian
Sinha, a leading consultant respiratory paediatrician at Alder
Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, who highlights the
‘dangerous consequences’ of living in a cold home to a child’s
health and future life expectancy. Households with children as
well as those on low incomes, living with disabilities and Black
and Minority Ethnic groups are most at risk of fuel poverty.
Fuel Poverty, Cold Homes and Health
Inequalities reviews the evidence on both the
direct and indirect impacts of fuel poverty and cold homes on
health inequalities and makes the case for prioritising reducing
fuel poverty through policy suggestions at both the national and
local level.
On Wednesday 31st August, 2022, at 10:00-11:00am Professor
Sir Michael Marmot will host a press conference to highlight the
key findings in the report, and explain what action needs to be
taken to combat this imminent crisis. He will be joined by
Professor Ian Sinha.
The full report will be sent when it is available.
