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**Fuel Poverty related illness: a preventable plague - http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cees/fuelpoverty**

University of Sheffield
Tuesday 6th November 2012
09:30 - 14:00

Firth Hall 
Firth Court
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN

**What are the health impacts of fuel poverty? How do you find the fuel poor? Is government policy helping or hindering the problem?**

With rising fuel poverty figures and a decreasing likelihood of meeting the UK governments' legislative commitment to eradicating fuel poverty by 2016, the need to take effective action to tackle this social ill has never been more important. Against a background of austerity and economic slow down, how do front line services define fuel poverty, identify the fuel poor and tackle it in their everyday practice?

The Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at the University of Sheffield plays host to an ESRC Festival of Social Science event seeking to uncover current approaches to fuel poverty, to stimulate debate over best practice and encourage the sharing of practitioners knowledge and academic insight to collaboratively move towards the ultimate eradication of fuel poverty. The event draws together social services, local authorities, social housing providers, community associations, third sector groups, health professionals and academics for what promises to be a lively debate, chaired by experts from within practice and academia.

For practitioners, this event provides an opportunity to understand how other services operate, explain their approach to other partners and develop a best practice approach to tackling fuel poverty. Academics will benefit from engaging with fuel poverty stakeholders to extend their knowledge and understanding of how fuel poverty is approached and how theory is or could be applied in practice.

**Registration**

Registration and attendance is FREE, please register at http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cees/fuelpoverty/register

**Any questions, comments or queries?**

For more information, please contact Robert Marchand ([log in to unmask])

ESRC Festival of Social Sciences Fuel Poverty Event
University of Sheffield,
169-171 Northumberland Road,
Sheffield
S10 1DF

 0044 (0)114 222 3496

**Additional event support**

The event is also being supported by the Big Energy Upgrade, a flagship £14.9million, ERDF part-funded, multi partner project linking the University of Sheffield with 6 Local Authorities, 6 ALMOs/social housing providers and YES, an energy advice company to make houses across the Yorkshire and Humber region more energy efficient and reduce their carbon emissions.

Find out more about the Big Energy Upgrade at http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/bigenergyupgrade