Start of Winter Season: Green Alert
November 1 marks the official start of the Cold Heat-Health Alerting season. The Public Health team requests that you review and share the information below with your commissioned and partner services to help them prepare for the cold weather.
Recommended Actions (please implement as soon as possible)
– Review and distribute the relevant guidance for the services you commission or work closely with.
- General guidance: Cold weather and health: supporting vulnerable people – GOV.UK
- If the service you commission/work with are Healthcare professionals: Supporting vulnerable people before and during cold weather: healthcare professionals – GOV.UK
- If the service you commission/work with support those who are homeless or rough sleeping: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cold-weather-and-health-supporting-vulnerable-people/supporting-vulnerable-people-before-and-during-cold-weather-people-homeless-and-sleeping-rough
- If the service you commission/work with support those who children: Looking after children and those in early years settings before and during cold weather: teachers and other educational professionals – GOV.UK
- Read and cascade the Very Brief Advice on how to cope in cold weather to all services you commission or work closely with and ask them to cascade to all staff: https://new.haringey.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-09/very_brief_advice_how_to_cope_in_cold_weather.pdf
- Read & share Keep Warm & Well advice posters/information to services you commission or work closely with and ask them to cascade within their services: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keep-warm-keep-well-leaflet-gives-advice-on-staying-healthy-in-cold-weather
- Please also share guidance on flooding: Flooding: health guidance and advice – GOV.UK
If you directly commission public health services, please also familiarise yourself with this commissioner action card that is activated during a Yellow, Amber and Red alert (no action required now):