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Early Years: Hot weather toolkit for stakeholders/providers updated 2025

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Jul 1 2025

    Please see attached circulated comms around Hot Weather Toolkit for stakeholders/providers updated 2025.

    The toolkit supports UKHSA’s Adverse Weather and Health Plan (AWHP) and Weather-Health Alerting (WHA) system, which issues Heat-Health Alerts (HHA).

    The core alerting season for HHAs starts on Sunday 1 June, ending on 30 September. Individuals and organisations that wish to receive the impact based HHA must register to receive the alerts where users will be able to specify which regions they wish to receive alerts for. The alert status is also publicly available on the UKHSA Data Dashboard.

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