Tackling Poverty & Inequalities through System Convening
- April 2024
- Lead Member Glasgow City Council
- Categories Poverty
The city is the only one in the UK to offer an annual affordable warmth dividend to all vulnerable elderly people over the age of 80 – £100 every winter since the new Administration was elected in 2011. The Council also delivers a major domestic energy efficiency programme, levering in national and local funding sources to provide up to £500 a year in savings for fuel-poor residents. Now Glasgow is establishing an Energy Services Company for the city – a radical move to protect our people from market failure in the energy system by drawing on our history of municipal activism.
