Denbighshire County Council will be sharing findings for helping protect people from the impacts of climate change during a Wales wide event.
The Council is joining partner agencies at a session hosted by Public Health Wales on Thursday November 14 during Wales Climate Week.
This session is called “Protecting people from the health impacts of climate change – understanding & adapting to health impacts”.
Denbighshire County Council will present at the session the findings of the local authority’s Climate Resilience in Social Care Project, to collaborate with other organisations attending.
The project was grant funded by Welsh Health and Social Care Climate Emergency National Programme. It focused on providing recommendations for adaptation measures which could increase the climate resilience of the Council’s in-house and procured social care service provision to future climate impacts.
It looked at exploring the interaction between social care user vulnerability and climate risk to inform the Council’s service planning and commissioning.
The work also supported the Council’s identification of suitable processes and approaches to plan for increased frequency, severity and impact of severe weather from climate change, on social services provision to two thousand social care users.
Cllr Barry Mellor, Lead Member for Environment and Transport, said:
“We all see too often now the impact of climate change on our lives and the increasing frequency of change we are facing such as more storms that are hitting our county. This work has been important to help us look at how climate change can impact social care in Denbighshire and how we can all adapt to provide better outcomes for the people we look after.”
