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Scotland Needs Warm Homes |
Age Scotland Campaign for Warm Homes
Last winter 1,200 people in Scotland died needlessly, because they lived in poorly insulated housing or in homes they could not afford to heat.
Over half of single pensioner households and nearly half of pensioner couples in Scotland live in fuel poverty. The choice between heating and eating is a daily reality for too many people. It is a choice no older person should face.
What Age Scotland wants the Government to do
Older people should be able to live safely and with dignity in good quality, warm, comfortable housing.
- Scotland’s housing stock is among the least energy inefficient in Europe. Age Scotland wants the Scottish Government to make home energy efficiency a National Infrastructure Project. We want an ambitious energy efficiency programme to tackle fuel poverty so that older people can live in warm, comfortable housing.
- We want to see efforts to improve home energy efficiency targeted at those most at risk of fuel poverty, including older people on fixed incomes. This includes making sure that older people have access to efficiency improvement measures, but also making sure that older people feel informed and safe in making decisions about improvements to their homes.
- We want to make sure that older people are informed about how to use and heat their homes as efficiently as possible. This also means making informed decisions about energy tariffs. We want the Government to emulate measures used in other industries to make shopping around for a better deal as easy as possible.
Over half of single pensioner households and nearly half of pensioner couples in Scotland live in fuel poverty. The choice between heating and eating is a daily reality for too many people. It is a choice no older person should face.
What Age Scotland wants the Government to do
Older people should be able to live safely and with dignity in good quality, warm, comfortable housing.
- Scotland’s housing stock is among the least energy inefficient in Europe. Age Scotland wants the Scottish Government to make home energy efficiency a National Infrastructure Project. We want an ambitious energy efficiency programme to tackle fuel poverty so that older people can live in warm, comfortable housing.
- We want to see efforts to improve home energy efficiency targeted at those most at risk of fuel poverty, including older people on fixed incomes. This includes making sure that older people have access to efficiency improvement measures, but also making sure that older people feel informed and safe in making decisions about improvements to their homes.
- We want to make sure that older people are informed about how to use and heat their homes as efficiently as possible. This also means making informed decisions about energy tariffs. We want the Government to emulate measures used in other industries to make shopping around for a better deal as easy as possible.
To support our campaign, please sign our petition.